Young Black Climate Leaders Youth Futures Fund 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 27, 2025

Are you a younger Black chief captivated with local weather justice and remodeling your neighborhood? The People’s Climate Innovation Center (Climate Innovation) is happy to announce the following spherical of the Young Black Climate Leaders (YBCL) Youth Futures Fund!

The YBCL Youth Futures Fund gives monetary awards to younger Black local weather leaders who’re advocating for and remodeling their communities towards racial and local weather justice. The fund provides entry to capability-constructing help and assets for younger Black local weather leaders who’re reshaping the broader local weather motion. With a concentrate on centering native actions and initiatives, the YBCL Youth Futures Fund will uplift fashions of local weather resistance and regenerative practices rooted in creativity and advancing transformative change.

Funding

• Soil- $2,000– This funding tier gives seed grants to initiatives within the “idea” section. These are initiatives that will want help getting off the bottom, proving the idea, and so on. These initiatives could also be at first levels and want monetary help, thought partnership, mentoring, extra assets, coaching, supplies or talent share to carry the concept to fruition. (They perceive this undertaking could also be within the incubation and concept section; due to this fact, brief solutions and answering the inquiries to one of the best of your potential is absolutely acceptable.)
• Seed- $6,000– This funding tier helps initiatives which are past the concept section however that also want help to scale and develop. Seed degree funding may help the creation of a product (i.e. visible arts, presentation, occasion, and so on.) or extra intensive coaching to additional advance work.
• Water- $8,000– This funding tier helps extra established initiatives. These initiatives have demonstrated a transparent proof of idea, scale, and so on., and are working to broaden attain and influence. Water degree funding may help extra intensive coaching and abilities constructing, fund focused undertaking wants, help scaling a undertaking to achieve extra individuals, cowl bills akin to stipends or distributors, and so on. 
• Grow- $10,000– This funding tier helps clearly effectively-established initiatives. These initiatives have demonstrated a transparent proof of idea, scale, and so on., and have beforehand proven their attain and influence. Grow degree funding may help focused undertaking must additional deepen and broaden attain and continued scalability, along with intensive coaching, teaching, and abilities constructing.

Eligibility

Applicants should

• Identify as Black, African, Afro-Latinx, and or part of the Afro-Indigenous diaspora.
• Be based mostly and implement their undertaking in one of many following locations: the United States (together with Alaska and Hawaii), Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands or the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Be 18-28 years previous (OK to show 18 by July 1 or 29 through the undertaking).
• Be obtainable to finish a ZOOM interview – interviews will likely be scheduled between May 7 and May 16, 2025 (if wanted).

To obtain funding, you should be capable of decide to:

• Making a one yr dedication to finish this system as an energetic participant.
• Signing an award settlement and offering a undertaking reflection on the conclusion of your undertaking time period. (Reflections will be within the type of movies, songs, blogs, photojournalism, zines, artwork, or interviews).
• Completing all surveys and evaluations.
• Attending at the very least six digital bi-month-to-month studying calls/coaching (as much as three (3) hours/month, with calls held roughly each different month).
• Attending the YBCL digital welcome/orientation session on June 25.
• Attending an in-particular person gathering for 3-4 days through the week of July 21.

Application

Fund functions will likely be accepted till Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Young Black Climate Leaders Youth Futures Fund.