Women for Nature Young Leaders Grant 2025 – YOA

Deadline: February 18, 2025

Applications are open for the Young Nature Leaders Grant 2025. Women for Nature have established a grant/bursary for a teen to develop and implement a undertaking to have fun the function that nature performs within the Canadian tradition and id.

All throughout Canada, folks and organizations encourage with their management and devotion to the pure world. They commit their time and power not for credit score however for the outcomes. They select to take up the decision to guard, interact and advocate on behalf of nature. They act as a powerful voice for nature for our youngsters’s futures.

Women for Nature are leaders who care deeply about nature and need to encourage others to make a difference. In explicit, they need to encourage, foster and nurture youth (underneath 30) to reveal their management for nature. To that finish, a grant/bursary has been established for a teen (underneath 30) to develop and implement a youth-led, group-based mostly undertaking centered round nature and sustainability in Canada.

Grant

• This grant of $1,000 will help undertaking implementation within the yr 2025, to have fun the function that nature performs within the Canadian tradition and id.

Eligibility

• Open to a teen (underneath 30) in Canada;
• Be able to develop and implement a youth-led, group-based mostly undertaking centered round nature and sustainability in Canada.

Evaluation Criteria

Project concepts will probably be evaluated by a volunteer Grant Selection Committee based mostly on the following standards:

• Potential influence and advantages of the undertaking;
• Public engagement and attain of the undertaking;
• Possible involvement of Women for Nature members;
• Creativity and readability of the proposed undertaking;
• Effective use of the grant;
• Possible engagement of underrepresented and various communities;
• Must happen inside Canada and cling to CRA spending pointers for charities; and
• Only one grant submission per applicant.

Application

Interested candidates ought to submit both a two-web page essay or a brief video (in English or French) outlining their proposed undertaking.

Submissions to be obtained no later than 5:00 pm (Eastern Time) on February 18, 2025. Submissions obtained after the deadline is not going to be thought-about. All candidates will probably be notified of the Selection Committee’s choice by March 31, 2025.

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For extra info, go to Young Nature Leaders Grant.