Use your passions to advance social, humanitarian, medical or environmental causes.
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 Entrepreneurs
Your creative problem solving can change the world.
Every single challenge we face can benefit from technology that helps identify and track the root issues. And your service or program, invention, app, website or other medical, technical or scientific solution could be the one that makes all the difference.
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 build respect for all cultures, all passions, all dreams and aspirations!
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!
Coronavirus Relief + COVID Vaccination
Tell us what you did (or your idea for a new program) to support youth, seniors, frontline workers and families with food, laptops/connectivity/art supplies/instruments for remote education, social isolation, and more!
Did you help keep people home, entertained, informed during this past year of shut downs? Increase awareness of the importance and safety of vaccines?
Develop a new tracking or research mechanism for future pandemics, a new vaccine (yes you can!); have ideas for distribution, etc.
Racial Equity
Advance racial equity for all BIPOC!
Dismantle systemic racism, advance social justice; address policing, voting access, educational opportunity gaps (tech, tutoring, coursework, etc.), school to prison pipeline, healthcare, criminal justice reform, housing, civics education, livable wages, 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, drug use and mental health crises.
"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." The Trevor Project
Voting & Democracy
Capture how youth impacted the 2020 election or will/could play a role in 2022 elections.
Did you (or do you have ideas 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, or
improve polling accuracy?
These are just a few ideas!
More issues TBA!
You can support additional causes that are most important to you such as mental health, school safety, food insecurity and poverty, immigration reform, education access and achievement, foster care and adoption, and animal welfare.
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