How can YOUR special talent(s) change the world?
Working together, creative, innovative and compassionate teens can be an unstoppable Creative Force for Good
Visual Artists
Your ability to visually convey the essence of issues and ideas is critical to their awareness and understanding.
Tell the story visually, design signs to support marchers, illustrate written works from peers, create animations for social media, design merch for fundraisers, and more!
Performing Artists
Your gift of creative expression can help open eyes, minds and hearts - you can move people.
Record songs for anthems, choreograph dances for social media campaigns, act in fellow teens' plays and films, and more!
Writers
Without awareness and understanding of issues, there can be no change.
Share your perspective through journalism, poetry and spoken word, storytelling, playwriting and screenwriting. We may enlist teenage performing artists and filmmakers to help bring it to life!
Inventors, Programmers and Social Entrepreneurs
Your creative problem solving can change the world.
Every single challenge we face can benefit from creative solutions. Whether simple or complex, your product, service or program, invention, app, website or other medical, technical or scientific solution could be the one that makes all the difference.
And you could attract funding for or investments in your solution!
Changemakers, Leaders and Activists
Taking action is critical to creating change. YOU are a critical part of the solution!
Submit ideas - or showcase what you've already done - to increase awareness of an issue, rally others to action, influence decision makers and voters, or raise funds for the solution.
Starting with these CAUSES:
Celebrate Diversity
Let's celebrate, increase awareness of and respect for all ethnicities, identities, cultures, religions, personalities, body types, abilities, passions, dreams, and aspirations! We are all in this world together - let's make it welcoming for all!
Express your own pride or celebrate others through music, dance, art, spoken word, film making, fashion design, culinary arts, blogs/vlogs, and more.
Every week we'll select entries to be featured in benefit variety shows, and maybe secure funding for your ideas!
Voting & Democracy
It's Your Future
Youth clearly impacted the 2020 election. and can absolutely do it again in 2022 midterm elections! (see why they are soooo important here)
Now you can use your creativity to educate voters about issues that are most important to you,
encourage and prepare young people to participate in local politics,
make voting more accessible, improve polling accuracy and more!
Let's go!
Help advance racial equity for all BIPOC!
Increase awareness of the issues, dismantle systemic racism, address policing, voting access, educational opportunity gaps (tech, tutoring, coursework, etc.), school to prison pipeline, healthcare, media bias, criminal justice reform, housing, civics education and participation, livable wages, economic empowerment and so on.
Mental Health
The impact of COVID-19 on teens' mental health is staggering. Even before the pandemic, far too many teens were struggling with far too many issues.
It's time to rally together to increase awareness of the issues teens face... and to solve them. You can do this better than anyone else.
You can use your creativity to encourage and support teens who are just like you, but who are struggling; you can make them feel seen, loved, and valued.
You can raise funds for programs that are already working, or to fund the most innovative youth-led ideas.
Climate Change / Environmental Issues
83% of Gen Zers are concerned about the planet’s health. And thank goodness, you're doing something about it.
"Young people have upended the climate conversation by organizing, protesting, and pressuring governments to take action for their future."
coveringclimatenow.org
KEEP GOING! It's working!
LGBTQ+ Youth
Support LGBTQ+ Youth who face issues such as increased homelessness, violence, healthcare issues, lack of safe spaces, drug use and mental health crises.
For example, "12% of white LGBTQ youth attempted suicide compared to 31% of Native/Indigenous youth, 21% of Black youth, 21% of multiracial youth, 18% of Latinx youth, and 12% of Asian/Pacific Islander youth."
But get this: "One accepting adult decreases the risk of suicide among LGBTQ young people by 40%." The Trevor Project
Hmmm, got ideas?
Coronavirus Relief + COVID Vaccination
Tell us what you did (or your idea for a new program) to support youth, seniors, families, frontline workers and more!
More issues TBA!
You can support additional causes that are most important to you such as school safety, food insecurity and poverty, immigration reform, education access and achievement, foster care and adoption, and animal welfare.
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