Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership 2026 ($3,000 cash prize) – YOA

Deadline: March 31, 2026

Applications are open for the Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership 2026. 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 individuals 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 co-produced about their work, a visit to take part in management growth actions, flight, meals, and lodging lodging.
• Post occasion, Brower Youth Award winners be 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). 

Assessment Criteria

Applicants are assessed on the next standards:

• Outstanding Youth Leadership: You performed the most important management position in creating, organizing and implementing your undertaking or marketing campaign(s).
• Issue & Approach: Your undertaking is making use of recent options and approaches to related environmental challenges.
• Project Impact, Scalability, & Replicability: Is the undertaking’s influence vital? 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 should be accomplished and submitted on-line. You should full your individual 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 web application, every applicant should submit:

• {a photograph} of your self
• if you’re a semifinalist, you’ll be requested for a letter of help from somebody who’s accustomed to you and your environmental work (can’t be from a guardian or guardian)

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Brower Youth Awards.