Youth Climate Justice Fund Grant

Youth Climate Justice Fund Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Climate Group Inc.
Amount: Up to US $40,000
Last Updated: February 03, 2026

Summary

Overview

About Us The Youth Climate Justice Fund aims to support climate justice young leaders with trust-based funding, resources, and capacity strengthening, enabling them to amplify their voices and to keep their vision and influence alive. Collectively, we have the power to ignite meaningful change and build equitable and sustainable futures. Despite the challenges posed by the current crisis, youth climate justice organizers remain determined to address current issues and explore new approaches. Mission & Purpose We work to strengthen existing organizing efforts and support emerging youth-led initiatives with a focus on bridging funders and organizers to enable flexible and impactful support. Through capacity strengthening and resource sharing, we empower and support young people to drive change and build a just and sustainable future. How To Apply The Youth Climate Justice Fund provides funding to emerging youth-led climate justice and socio-environmental groups through a participatory decision-making process.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Eligible groups working at local or national levels are invited to apply for grants of up to USD 20,000 for local groups and USD 40,000 for national groups.Your group or collective is led by young people aged 35 years and below. In order to be eligible for a YCJF grant, the majority of your leadership must be young people or the individuals with decision making power should be aged 35 years and below.Your group, network or collective is based in East Asia and Pacific, Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, Europe and Central Asia, and North America.*
Applicants from high-income countries should belong to underrepresented communities to be considered for funding. Groups that focus solely on international engagements without any community-based work are ineligible to applyYou believe in and exhibit inclusive organizing, collective action and intersectional movement building. Your group, network or collective is based in North America or Western Europe but is led by young people who are discriminated against and/or marginalized based on class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, background, etc.Non-partisan, non-violent, and legal movements.