We Are Family Foundation Youth to the Front Fund: “The Creatives” Frontliners 2026 – YOA

Deadline: April 13, 2026

Applications are open for the We Are Family Foundation Youth to the Front Fund: “The Creatives” Frontliners 2026. At this second, when so many communities are navigating uncertainty, hurt, and erasure, artistic leaders are stepping ahead as caretakers and catalysts. Through creativeness, storytelling, and collective observe, they’re grounding their work in neighborhood, difficult injustice, and serving to form paths towards dignity, therapeutic, and equitable futures.

In landscapes marked by extraction and loss, they observe restoration as a artistic and civic intervention: replanting, rebuilding, and reimagining what has been broken. Recovery turns into a collective course of. Preservation turns into an funding in continuity, belonging and lengthy-time period resilience.

They additionally embrace pleasure not as escape, however as intention. In gathering, efficiency, and shared cultural observe, they nurture connection and mutual care. They deal with cultural heritage not as nostalgia, however as residing information that sustains languages, craft, music, and intergenerational knowledge whereas evolving with altering realities.

In 2026, Youth to the Front Fund is continuous their dedication to help younger leaders whose work is creating actual, measurable impression in the second. They are calling in creatives and collectives who’re shaping tradition, shifting narratives, organizing communities by means of creativity, and strengthening the ecosystems, human and environmental, that maintain us all.

Eligibility

• You must be a founding chief underneath 30 years previous, whose work facilities BIPOC communities and actively challenges systemic racism, inequality, inequity and injustice.
• You must be working throughout:
  • Visual & Material Arts: Painting, sculpture, images, movie, set up, design, trend, craft, and materials-primarily based practices throughout bodily and digital mediums.
  • Performance & Embodied Practice: Dance, theatre, reside and interdisciplinary efficiency, motion-primarily based work, and up to date or ritual-knowledgeable embodied expression.
  • Music & Sound: Composition, manufacturing, DJing, sound artwork, and neighborhood-primarily based audio storytelling throughout reside and recorded codecs.
  • Writing & Literary Arts: Poetry, prose, spoken phrase, journalism, publishing, archival work, and narrative storytelling throughout platforms.
  • Film, Media & Cultural Documentation: Documentary, brief-kind movie, neighborhood journalism, archival initiatives, and media practices that protect and amplify cultural narratives.
  • Design, Architecture & Spatial Practice: Architecture, city and panorama design, public artwork, set up, product and social design, and neighborhood-led placemaking.
  • Digital & Creative Technology: Creative coding, immersive media, gaming, XR/AR/VR, internet-primarily based artwork, and know-how-pushed cultural experimentation.
  • Creative Changemaking & Cultural Strategy: Curation, artistic organizing, cultural storytelling, culinary and people arts, and interdisciplinary practices bridging artwork and civic engagement.
  • Holistic Healing, Community Spaces & Sport: Wellness practices, restorative and integrative therapeutic, youth and neighborhood sports activities, shared areas, and motion as cultural observe.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to “The Creatives” Frontliners.