Deadline: 15-Jul-21
The America’s Promise Alliance is offering Power of Youth Challenge: Youth Leading Racial Healing a leadership and service opportunity supporting youth-designed projects that promote racial equity and address systemic racism.
The Challenge provides young people (ages 13-19) across the U.S. with the opportunity to identify a need in their communities related to racial healing to support a (COVID-safe) service project.
In addition to building their own leadership, service, and career skills, grant winners will have the opportunity to increase understanding, communication, caring, and respect within their communities through service projects that address racial division and injustice.
Projects
- Projects should:
- Respond to an identified need in their community related to promoting racial equity and/or healing
- Have tangible, concrete outcomes
- Projects should not:
- Be overtly political in nature and/or relate to a specific political party
- Center around boycotts and/or campaign against something
Funding Information
- Apply for a $250 grant.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for the program, individuals and/or teams must meet the following criteria:
- All young people ages 13 – 19 who want to improve their communities are eligible to apply.
- Applicants must live in the U.S.
- Participants must agree to report on project progress and reflect on their project’s impact.
- Projects must follow CDC’s guidelines for social distancing for both the applicants’ and their project audiences’ health and well-being.
For more information, visit https://www.americaspromise.org/poy/RacialHealing
