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 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.
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 ethnicities, identities, cultures, personalities, body types, abilities, passions, 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, and maybe secure funding for your 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!
Racial Equity
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.
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?
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 culturally competent mental health services, body positivity, school safety, food insecurity and poverty, immigration reform, education access and achievement, foster care and adoption, and animal welfare.
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