High School Clean Energy Investment Coalition

What High School Clean Energy Investment Coalition does

The High School Clean Energy Investment Coalition is a student-led non-profit organization founded in 2023 at The Nueva School in San Mateo, California. It operates as a coalition of high school students focused on fossil fuel divestment advocacy and clean energy reinvestment education. The organization has scaled to 51+ member schools across 11+ countries, organized into regional chapters covering West Coast, East Coast, UK, and International territories. It is run by a small team of 6 employees and is structurally dependent on student volunteer participation.

The coalition's core activities are educational programming, advocacy campaigns, and the CLIC Youth Investment Competition, which engages student participants in evaluating clean energy investment opportunities with prize tiers of $200, $100, and $50. In 2024 the organization rebranded from "International High School Divestment & Reinvestment Coalition" to "International Clean Energy Investment Coalition," broadening its mandate from a divestment-only focus toward a more positive clean energy investment framing. The rebrand signaled a strategic repositioning rather than a change in operational model.

The organization has no proprietary technology platform, no AI/ML capabilities, and no commercial product offerings. Its business model is non-commercial: it does not generate revenue from members, runs no fee-based programs, and operates without disclosed grants or sponsorships in the available data. Its primary external relationship is a 2023 partnership with the LSE Green Finance Students society, which provides institutional credibility and a university-level anchor. The underlying technology is minimal — communication, event coordination, and competition administration — with no indication of a software backbone or data infrastructure.

Name

High School Clean Energy Investment Coalition

Legal name

International High School Clean Energy Investment Coalition

Website

https://hscleaninvest.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The High School Clean Energy Investment Coalition is a student-led non-profit founded in 2023 that mobilizes high school students across 51+ schools in 11+ countries to advocate for fossil fuel divestment and clean energy reinvestment through education and competitions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sustainable Finance Education Coalition

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Environmental Education & Outreach (BPAGAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

K–12 Support & School Improvement Nonprofits (BPAGADAB), Renewable Energy & Energy Transition Funds (FSANAJAB)

Keywords

• Sustainable finance education
• Fossil fuel divestment
• Clean energy investment
• Endowment ESG investing
• Student coalition advocacy

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Others, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Non-profit coalition operations: As a student-led non-profit coalition, the organization operates through volunteer participation and does not appear to generate commercial revenue. Activities are funded through member school participation and partnerships with educational institutions like LSE.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The High School Clean Energy Investment Coalition is a student-led educational coalition that helps high school teams incorporate sustainable investing principles into their schools' endowments through fossil fuel divestment and clean energy reinvestment advocacy. The coalition delivers this through regional chapters, shared sustainable finance documents and reports, mentorship from LSE Green Finance students, and CLIC, a virtual annual investment competition for student teams.

Product overview

The High School Clean Energy Investment Coalition (hsCleanInvest) is a student-led educational coalition focused on sustainable finance advocacy rather than a traditional product company. The organization provides educational materials, mentorship programs, and the CLIC (Coalition Youth Investment Competition) to teach high school students about fossil fuel divestment and clean energy reinvestment. The coalition offers resources including educational pages (What/Who, Why, Financial Considerations, Resources, FAQ), a next-steps guide for schools, and competition resources. No commercial software products, platforms, or digital tools are offered as products or services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CLIC Youth Investment Competition A global virtual investment competition for teams of 2-4 high school students to learn about ESG-aligned investment. Participants receive mentorship from London School of Economics (LSE) Green Finance students and compete for cash prizes. Held annually in April.
• Sustainable Investing Educational Materials & Next Steps Guide A comprehensive toolkit of sustainable investing strategies including educational pages on What/Who, Why, Financial Considerations, Resources, and FAQ, plus a Next Steps guide to help high school teams pursue fossil fuel divestment and clean energy reinvestment of their school endowments.
• Coalition Membership Network An international network of 51+ high school teams across 11+ countries organized into four regional chapters (West Coast, East Coast, UK, International) that meet regularly via Zoom and FaceTime to share sustainable finance documents, reports, and insights, and to advise each other on divestment and reinvestment strategies.

Named customers8 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• London School of Economics (LSE) Green Finance StudentscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023LSE students in the Green Finance program provide mentorship to CLIC competition participants, offering investment recommendations and information about pursuing a path in climate finance. Students serve as judges and mentors throughout the competition.
• The Nueva SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023The Nueva School Divestment & Reinvestment Team pioneered the coalition concept and serves as the founding team. After starting divestment efforts at their San Mateo, CA school, they created the coalition to inspire other students and share their transition from hardcore divestment to wider sustainable finance.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Generation Investment Management: A sustainable-investment firm co-founded by Al Gore. While not directly comparable in audience, it represents the established end-state career pathway that CLIC competition participants and coalition alumni may flow into.
• Net Zero Investor / Responsible Investor: Industry publications and communities covering sustainable investing and net-zero portfolio strategies. They are adjacent information/peer-learning networks to the coalition's educational resources, though aimed at professional investors.
• Climate Action 100+: An investor-led initiative coordinating engagement with major corporate emitters on climate. It is adjacent rather than directly competing, but operates on the same underlying thesis of investor capital as a tool for climate transition that hsCleanInvest teaches students to deploy.

Broad incumbents

• 350.org: A large global climate activism organization running fossil-fuel divestment campaigns across institutions. It overlaps with hsCleanInvest on the divestment narrative but operates at vastly larger scale and across all institutional levels, not just high schools.
• As You Sow: A nonprofit that runs shareholder advocacy and fossil-fuel divestment campaigns targeting endowments and institutional investors. It is comparable in advocacy mechanics and divestment expertise but operates at institutional-investor scale rather than student-led high school level.
• AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education): A higher-education sustainability association supporting campus-wide sustainability, including endowment STARS reporting. It is comparable as a sustainability-in-education coalition but serves universities rather than high schools.

Direct peers

• Green Schools Alliance: A coalition of schools (primarily K-12 and independent schools) working on sustainability initiatives, including operational carbon reductions. It is highly comparable as a peer-school coalition model, though focused on campus operations rather than endowment investing.
• Fossil Free: 350.org's Fossil Free campaign explicitly supports student-led divestment movements at colleges and schools. It is the closest direct peer in mission and method (endowment divestment advocacy) but is embedded within a much larger parent organization.

Emerging players

• Sunrise Movement: A youth-led climate advocacy organization mobilizing students around climate action. It overlaps on the student-organizing DNA but focuses on political/electoral advocacy rather than endowment-level sustainable finance.
• Earth Guardians: A youth-led environmental organization that trains young people in climate advocacy and organizing. It overlaps with hsCleanInvest on the youth-organizing model but focuses on broader climate activism rather than sustainable finance.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/hscleaninvest
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/high-school-clean-energy-invest

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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