Walking Softer Young Leaders Award Program 2025 [US and Canada]: Up to $50,000 and more – YOA

Deadline: April 3, 2025

Nominations are invited for the Walking Softer’s 2025 Young Leaders Award Program. Do you understand a passionate younger chief who’s engaged on options for the betterment of our planet? The Young Leaders Award is searching for a properly-rounded cohort with a mixture of illustration throughout geographies, backgrounds, and approaches to sustainability and regeneration.

The Young Leaders Award is an accelerator program for imaginative and prescient leaders of their 20s and 30s who’re innovating for our planet. Recipients obtain a money award of up to $50,000 and a novel package deal of govt teaching, a cohort-based mostly curriculum, and management retreats culminating in a multi-yr organizational development plan.

The Young Leaders Award goals to:

• Fund and help youth management whereas permitting awardees to pursue their environmental passions.
• Cultivate a group of Changemakers whereas amplifying their voices.
• Inspire the general public to take motion within the conservation and regeneration of our planet.

Award

The YLA is a six-month accelerator program designed to amplify and help rising leaders advancing sustainability. Participants obtain:

• Funding: Up to $50,000 USD for an early-stage regenerative mission, group, or enterprise
• Leadership Development: A novel package deal of govt teaching, a cohort-based mostly curriculum, and nature-based mostly management retreats culminating in a multi-yr organizational development and affect plan
• Cohort Retreat: All expense paid to two in-individual retreats with different Young Leader Awardees to collaborate and study from enterprise coaches and different Changemakers.

This is an OPPORTUNITY to help deserving younger leaders out of your community. Each group might nominate up to three candidates.

Eligibility

Walking Softer seeks to curate a properly-rounded cohort with a mixture of illustration throughout geographies, drawback-fixing approaches to sustainability, and backgrounds.

These Young Leaders:

• Are of their 20s and 30s, together with a mixture of undergraduate and graduate college students, latest graduates, and younger professionals.
• Can commit to creating an early-stage mission, group or enterprise — both full-time or part-time (20 hours per week for lively college students) by Spring 2025.*
• Are based mostly within the U.S. or Canada. Candidates will solely be eligible if they’re U.S. or Canada based mostly. We hope to develop this chance in future years.

*Interested, however not precisely positive the Young Leaders Award is the fitting match or that you just’re eligible, attain out, let’s discuss!

Nominations

Does your group collaborate with younger leaders targeted on local weather and environmental options? Would you want to nominate a younger chief for the award? Please notice that eligibility is restricted to leaders of their 20s and 30s, and residing within the US and Canada. If you’re , please full the shape.

1. Verify prematurely that the nominee is, the truth is, eligible.
2. To nominate a candidate, please fill out this manner.
3. Only the primary 100 submissions that meet all necessities shall be thought of, so please don’t wait to submit a nomination.

Click here to nominate.

For more data, go to Walking Softer.