Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership 2025 ($3,000 cash prize) – YOA

Deadline: May 20, 2025

Applications are open for the Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership 2025. Earth Island Institute established the Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership in 2000 to honor famend environmental advocate David Brower. They acknowledge the excellent management efforts of younger folks with this annual, prestigious award.

David Brower, was quoted as saying “I love to see what young people can do, before someone old tells them it’s impossible.” It is with this spirit that they acknowledge the excellent management efforts of younger people who find themselves working for the safety of our shared planet. The Brower Youth Awards are housed within the New Leaders Initiative program at Earth Island Institute.

Benefits

• Recipients obtain a $3,000 cash prize, a brief movie produced about their work, a visit to take part in management improvement actions, flight, meals, and lodging lodging.
• Post occasion, Brower Youth Award winners be a part of a large community of over 100 youth leaders internationally making a difference globally.

Eligibility

• Open to youth environmental change leaders ages 13 to 22 (as of the application deadline)
• Be residing in North America (together with Mexico, Canada, and U.S. territories). 

Applicants are assessed on the next standards:

• Outstanding Youth Leadership: You performed the main management function in creating, organizing and implementing your challenge or marketing campaign(s).
• Issue & Approach: Your challenge is making use of contemporary options and approaches to related environmental challenges.
• Project Impact, Scalability, & Replicability: Is the challenge’s influence important? Can your work be used as a mannequin for different communities or campuses?
• Charisma, Personal Commitment, & Trajectory: What attracts you to this work? What would profitable a Brower Youth Award imply to you?

Application

All purposes have to be accomplished and submitted on-line. You should full your personal application. Parents, mates, mentors, and lecturers can’t full it for you.

In addition to assembly award eligibility necessities and following all directions to finish the net application, every applicant should submit:

• {a photograph} of your self
• in case you are a semifinalist, you’ll be requested for a letter of help from somebody who’s acquainted with you and your environmental work (can’t be from a mum or dad or guardian)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Brower Youth Awards.