Closing Date: 14 April 2025
Apply for the Roots Micro-grants 2025 (up to $10,000 USD)
Resourcing campaigns
Roots provide access to small grants, funding, and resources for youth-led climate justice groups in Global South regions. Access to small grants, funding, and resources is one of the biggest hurdles for young local organizers in the Global South. Roots seeks to bridge that gap by providing financial grants, mentorship, and resourcing for promising youth-led campaigns.
Roots has launched a project to provide funding to support youth-led projects, initiatives, research, or campaigns that advocate for climate justice through an intersectional lens, have strategies rooted in radical systemic change; and reach new, persuadable audiences, and create intergenerational ties.
Grant recipients will also have access to a range of resources and support networks, including Roots trainings and workshops, Climate Justice Camps, and opportunities to take on leadership roles within these programs. They will also be provided with media and digital support.
Roots Micro-grants
Access to funding is fundamental in helping to build stronger, adequately resourced movements with the resources to properly campaign and organize. Currently, there is a gap between access to resources and emerging climate initiatives driven by young community advocates and organizations.
The Roots micro-grants project provides funding of up to $10,000 USD per group to help support youth-led projects, initiatives, research, or campaigns that advocate for climate justice through an intersectional lens. The grants are accompanied by ongoing mentorship. Roots will offer grants for between 10-15 grassroots youth-led initiatives, with a focus on groups in Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia.
Preference will be given to projects that demonstrate some, or all, of the following characteristics:
- Community-driven approach: Projects, initiatives, research, or campaigns originating from grassroots efforts at the local level, driven by the community.
- Ambitious and transformative community solutions: Applicants should demonstrate innovative strategies focused on transformative, intersectional, and equitable solutions to address the root causes of the climate crisis.
- Support for marginalized communities: Initiatives actively engage and provide aid and assistance to marginalized communities, including but not limited to, sharing activist knowledge, capacity-building, facilitating leadership workshops, organizing networking events, and hosting climate-focused programs.
- Promotion of intergenerational collaboration: Priority will be given to initiatives that address and foster relationships across generations, seeking to bridge the intergenerational gap and reach audiences beyond existing echo chambers.
- Wellbeing: Groups that put an emphasis on the wellbeing of their membership and building resilient structures within their groups and communities.
Roots is accepting applications in English, Spanish, Arabic, and French. Read more information and apply below.
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