The Youth-Led Creative Force for Good
Where Passion Finds Purpose.
Use your passions to support coronavirus relief and racial equality, combat poverty and climate change, promote education and animal welfare, and more!
Visual and Performing Artists
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.
Design posters for marches, animations for awareness campaigns, merch for fundraisers; record songs for anthems; choreograph dances for social media campaigns and so on.
Inventors, Programmers and Innovators
Your creative problem solving can change the world. Submit your invention, app, website or other medical, technical or scientific solution to a specific issue.
Entrepreneurs, Leaders and Changemakers
Submit ideas for or already completed programs or campaigns to educate and/or rally others to action.
Starting with These Causes:
Coronavirus Relief + COVID Vaccination
There are so many issues related to the coronavirus that could use your artistry and brilliant ideas. Support youth, seniors, frontline workers and families with food, laptops/art supplies/instruments for remote education, social isolation/mental health services and diapers
Develop a new vaccine (yes you can!), help increase awareness of the importance and safety of vaccination, present ideas for distribution, etc.
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 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.
Vote 2020
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!
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.
More issues TBA!
Each week we will showcase additional causes that are most important to youth such as immigration reform, poverty, school safety, education access and achievement, foster care and adoption and animal welfare
How Do You You Feel About Each Issue?
Frustration, anger, hope? We encourage you to
Perform it
Singing
Dance
Music
Acting
Songwriting
Etc.
Show it
Film making
Painting
Photography
Illustration
Animation
Fashion design
Graphic novels
Sculpting
Etc.
Write it
Spoken word
Storytelling
Journalism
Playwriting
Screenwriting
Poetry
Teen talks
Etc.
Solve it
Design awareness campaigns
Organize movements
Develop apps, websites
Invent products
Conduct research
Etc.
READY TO "BE THE CHANGE"?
Awesome! Go for it. All teens age 13-19 - create your profile, select the cause, and upload your video, artwork, invention and so on. It's that easy!
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!
Not ready yet? You can still create your profile to be notified of any updates or new categories and challenges.
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