PROGRAMS - Youth Activism
Supporting the youth climate movement
Young people will have to live with the impacts of the climate crisis. Because of this, they have both the will and the moral authority to lead on this issue.
We work to support youth climate activists in various ways. We offer material support for actions, which can include funding for consultants, transportation, and equipment. We also support educational and media initiatives, as well as creative projects.
Youth activists can request resources for their projects below:
Youth Activism projects
YEPT’s mission is to amplify youth urgency on the climate crisis by supporting young people in producing journalistic content on climate and sharing it with their peers.
We are happy to have been able to support Green Space Academy (GSA) – a youth environmental education program implemented by CAED Africa in Cameroon.
Earth Rising is pleased to support Re:wild Your Campus’s Ground Up Advocacy Bootcamp (GAB) – a training series on pesticide-issues and environmental justice for young advocates.
With support from Earth Rising, The Jewish Youth Climate Movement (JYCM) – a Gen Z-led movement dedicated to combating climate change and environmental injustice from a Jewish lens – recently brought together 38 teen leaders from across the United States for their inaugural Climate Activism Institute and Shabbaton retreat in Maryland.
Earth Rising is proud to support Youth Environmental Press Team (YEPT) – a student organization dedicated to uplifting the work of Indiana high school journalists and normalizing youth-led conversations about environmental issues in the media.
With support from Earth Rising, the youth-led group Care About Climate (CAC) recently completed a valuable project, the NDC Equity Tracker – a publicly-accessible database that provides a platform for international youth to critically engage with their countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions.
With the support of a grant from Earth Rising, and led by Hilary Ewang Ngide, CCREAD carried out an important educational project in the Bakossi forest area of Cameroon where deforestation is a significant problem.
With the support of a grant from Earth Rising, Power Shift Network was able to make the virtual convergence accessible to a wide range of participants.