Deadline: 23-Oct-20
Are you a part of a youth-led group that wants to create positive Social, Economic, and Environmental Change in your community? If yes, then apply for the 2020-2021 Youth Making Change Grant.
Youth Making Change (YMC) is a teen-led grant-making program that provides young people with the opportunity to engage directly in organized philanthropy (grant giving).
Youth Making Change is a program of the Fund for Santa Barbara and is inspired by the Santa Barbara Foundation’s Katherine Harvey Fellows Class of 2006-2007.
Funding Information
- Grant range up to $3,000.
Activities
Projects must do one of the following:
- Actively support anti-discrimination based on race, sex/gender, age, religion, language is spoken, or immigration status;
- Actively support communities marginalized by power structures to engage in dialogue and actions that seek to counter social injustice;
- Actively work to improve the rights of workers and their families whose living conditions have been marginalized;
- Promote the cultural life of underserved communities and support the activities of cultural workers;
- Promote self-determination and leadership development in low income and disenfranchised communities;
- Promote global peace and organize locally for just policies;
- Work on building coalitions to enhance improving environmental justice and address climate change, especially organizing a constituency usually without access to decision-makers;
- Engage in collaborative action and coalition-building to strengthen movement ecosystems; Work against community violence and actively support recovery and restorative justice activities and initiatives.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be youth-led (age 12-24). Youth are leaders in all aspects of the project, including writing this grant application.
- Operate in a democratic manner, responsive to and directed by the group of people you aim to serve.
- Teens in the community must benefit from your project, not just the planning team.
- Attempt to fix a problem affecting youth by providing a solution.
- Be located in Santa Barbara County.
- Have a sponsoring organization, such as a school or community group.
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