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Funding Sources for Youth Projects

By Wajeeha Saeed

Youth Service America offers grants and awards to support and motivate youth, teachers, service-learning coordinators, and youth-serving organizations to plan and implement projects for National and Global Youth Service Day and on-going service throughout the year. Grants range from $250-$2000.To receive grant and awards email alerts, add your email address to the free subscriber list.

Be the Change! Grants
www.peacechild.org
Sponsored by Peace Child International, these are small grants up to $5,000 for project ideas from young people under 25. Proposals must identify a problem in your community and a concrete action project to address the problem. Grants are offered worldwide.

Brower Youth Awards
http://www.earthisland.org/bya
The Brower Youth Awards, a program of Earth Island Institute, recognize the efforts of environmental leaders ages 13 to 22. Six prizes of $3000 each are given out yearly.

The Captain Planet Foundation
http://www.captainplanetfdn.org/
Accepting proposals for grants, which supports projects that organize children and youths to find solutions to environmental problems in their communities. Grants generally range from $250 to $2,500. Schools and nonprofit organizations that organize local environmental programs involving children and youths ages 6 through 18 are encouraged to apply.

Do Something - Brick Awards
http://www.americasings.org/BRICK awards.htm
Founded in 1996, the Do Something BRICK Awards honor America's top leaders age 18 and under in the areas of community building, health, and the environment. BRICK winners are social entrepreneurs who identified problems in their local communities and did something about it! Each award includes a $5,000 higher education scholarship, a $5,000 grant for continued community work, pro bono services, and other support and recognition. Winners are announced and honored at the annual star-studded BRICK Awards Gala in New York City.

Ellen Dougherty Activist Fund
http://www.openmeadows.org/special.htm
Provides grants of up to $2000 to women 19 and under who propose to develop and lead projects focused on activism and social change.

The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
http://www.barronprize.org/
Awards $2000 to young people from diverse backgrounds who have organized and led an extraordinary service activity to benefit other people, animals or the planet. Ask an adult who is not related to you and has solid knowledge of your project to nominate you. Nominees must be between the ages of 8 and 18.

Mix It Up Grants
http://www.mixitup.org/
The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Study Circles Resource Center are accepting applications for this program. Grants of up to $250 will be made to support youth-directed projects that focus on identifying, crossing and challenging social boundaries in schools and communities. Applicants should demonstrate youth leadership, collaborative community efforts and the potential for sustainable work. Individuals proposing youth-directed school or community projects are encouraged to apply.

MTV-U
http://www.mtvu.com/contests/mtvu_grants/
If you've got an original idea about how to make the world--or your campus,
neighborhood, or town--a better place, mtvU Grants want to help you make it
happen by providing: Up to $1,500 to launch your new organization or initiative; An opportunity to be featured on mtvU News; Exclusive access to helpful resources and tools in cooperation with Youth Venture.

National 4-H Council Youth Grants Program
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/GrantsProgram.aspx
The Strategic Initiatives Team of National 4-H Council offers grants for youth in local communities, in counties, and on the state level. These grants provide opportunities for young people and adults to take action on issues critical to their lives, their families, and their communities. Youth take the lead in the design of the project, the proposal writing process, the implementation, and the evaluation of funded projects.

Youth Action Net
http://www.youthactionnet.org/yan_awards
Grants of $500 are available to young leaders of social-change projects and those that look to connect youth to local communities. YouthActionNet, a project of the International Youth Foundation, will support 18- to 24-year-olds. Projects must have clear goals and potential for growth and replication.

Youth Noise
http://www.youthnoise.org/site/CDA/CDA_Page/0,1004,90,00.html
Youth Noise offers grants up to $1,000 to support youth-led projects designed to improve members' communities or schools. To qualify for a Youth Noise grant your project must be sponsored by a nonprofit organization or school and have at least one adult advisor. Applicants must be members of Youth Noise (membership is free).

Youth Venture
http://www.youthventure.org/
At Youth Venture, we believe that young people (ages 12 to 20) have the creativity and the energy to launch and lead their own ventures that bring about positive change to their schools and neighborhoods. Our strategy is simple - Youth Venture strives to reach and support any young person nationwide who has a dream about how to make a difference, and the commitment to make it happen.