Growing Roots Grant 2026 (up to $10,000) – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2026

Applications are open for the Growing Roots Grant 2026. The Growing Roots Grant supplies funding per group for brand new and rising tasks and concepts that search to enhance the lives of communities on the frontlines of local weather change. The grants are accompanied by ongoing mentorship.

This yr, they’re searching for new and rising tasks (no older than one yr) that create significant impression in three key areas:

• Strategic dialogue and narrative constructing: Projects that create areas for dialogue and shared understanding in divided or polarized contexts. This consists of efforts to counter misinformation or disinformation, strengthen relationships inside communities, and construct bridges between communities, authorities, establishments, or coalitions in ways in which shift narratives and help native organizing.
• Advocacy-oriented initiatives: Projects that search to affect concrete public coverage or laws, or that contribute to adjustments in native or municipal insurance policies by way of advocacy, analysis, or civic engagement.
• Community autonomy initiatives: Projects that construct or strengthen infrastructure, programs, or assets which are owned and managed by the group itself and strengthen lengthy-time period group energy and buildings.

Grant

• They present funding of up to $10,000 USD per group for brand new and rising tasks and concepts that search to enhance the lives of communities on the frontlines of local weather change.

Eligibility

• Open to grassroots youth-led initiatives from Global South areas, together with the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.
• They additionally welcome purposes from diaspora and BIPOC communities who could also be positioned in Global North international locations.
• Your group/group doesn’t want to be legally registered so as to be eligible to apply.

Application

Applications are open from February 8 to February 28, 2026.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Growing Roots Grant.