Passion, Talent and Purpose Meet Here.
If you're a teenage performing or visual artist or writer, your gift of creative expression can help open eyes, minds and hearts - you can move people. And if you're an inventor, programmer, entrepreneur or advocate, your creative problem solving can change the world. Together, you are an unstoppable, youth-led Creative Force for Good
Visual and Performing Artists
#FeelItSayItShowIt
Express your feelings about specific issues with your music, art, acting, dance or words.
Inventors, Programmers and Innovators
Submit your invention, app, website or other technical solution to a specific issue within a specific cause.
Entrepreneurs, Leaders and Changemakers
Submit ideas for programs or campaigns that will educate and/or rally teens and adults to address specific issues.
Starting with These Four Causes:
We'll display your entry in that cause's gallery to educate and inspire fellow teens and adults.
You may also be selected to win a Verge Award, and be featured in the cause segment of Teens On The Verge benefit variety shows, where we'll help raise funds to develop your solution or recruit volunteers!
Vote2020
We want to showcase what you amazing teens did to encourage record turnout and/or support specific issues on the ballot. We know that thousands of you volunteered at the polls, and we thank you soooo much for that.
We are looking for stories of teens who led or supported the efforts - rallied volunteers, created signs for marches, recorded an anthem or dance... show us how you made it happen!
Coronavirus Relief
Support youth, seniors, frontline workers and families with food, laptops/art supplies/instruments for remote education, social isolation/mental health services and diapers... there are so many issues that could use your artistry and brilliant ideas.
Racial Equality
When twelve-year-old Keedron Bryant sang, “I Just Wanna Live” he gave voice to the fear many face every day due to racial injustice.
Support young and adult Black men, women and children, and all people of color, by raising awareness of and funding to address the educational opportunity gap, school to prison pipeline, criminal justice reform, housing, civics education, livable wages, systemic racism and so on.
Climate Change
"Young people have upended the climate conversation by organizing, protesting, and pressuring governments to take action for their future."
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KEEP GOING! It's working!
LGBTQ+ Youth
Support LGBTQ+ Youth who face issues such as increased homelessness, violence, healthcare issues, lack of safe spaces, emotional issues and drug use. If you’re a teen with LGBTQ+-inspired art or a technology-enable solution in mind, this is your exhibition.
More issues weekly!
Each week we will showcase additional causes that are most important to youth such as school safety, immigration, poverty, education access and achievement, foster care and adoption and animal welfare
