Deadline: 14-May-21
The Earth Island Institute has launched the Brower Youth Award for Environmental Leadership to honor renowned environmental advocate David Brower.
The Brower Youth Awards are housed in the New Leaders Initiative program at Earth Island Institute. This is the 22nd year of honoring bold, young leaders for their outstanding work in the environmental movement.
Few Tips
- Leadership: The Brower Youth Awards are looking to recognize the leader of a group or an effort. While they will consider applicants who are implementing individual efforts, it is their tendency to focus on leaders of groups and efforts.
- Research and science fair projects: Many research and science fair projects are individual and/or one–time efforts. As such, they are difficult to compare to the leadership of on-going projects. They will not consider applicants who are implementing research and science fair projects, unless it is part of ongoing environmental efforts involving a larger group.
- Earth Day and one-time conferences: They understand the impact and necessity of Earth Day, conferences and one–time gatherings. However, they typically will not consider one–time gatherings for the award, unless the event produced long–term measurable impacts in which you have continued to play a significant leadership role.
Award Details
- Each of the six recipients of the Brower Youth Awards will receive a $3,000 cash prize, a professionally produced short film about their work from an Emmy award winning film crew, and flight and lodging accommodations for a weeklong trip to the San Francisco Bay Area.
- During their stay in California, the recipients will participate in a coaching, visioning, leadership activities, speaking and media engagements. The Institute invests in their continued success by providing ongoing access to resources, mentors, and opportunities to develop leadership skills. The week of activities culminates in the awards ceremony.
Eligibility Criteria
- Youth environmental change leaders ages 13 to 22 (as of May 14, 2021) living in North America (including Mexico, Canada, some Caribbean Islands) and US “Territories” are encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit http://www.broweryouthawards.org/apply/