Call for Applications: Join the True Blue Fellowship offering peer-mentorship and funding of up to $2,500 USD to youth worldwide
Closing Date: 1 September 2025
Call for Applications: Join the True Blue Fellowship offering peer-mentorship and funding of up to $2,500 USD to youth worldwide
Calling all climate creatives! Applications are open for Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs’ True Blue Fellowship. This program is looking for youth applicants with projects that focus on addressing ocean or climate issues with creative arts.
Overview
The Fellowship offers peer-mentorship, capacity building, and funding of up to $2,500 USD to youth who are developing projects that address ocean, waterways, and/or climate issues through a creative arts lens. The Fellowship is free to enter and open to youth worldwide, whether as individuals, classes, groups, clubs, or organizations.
Funding & Mentorship for Emerging Youth Creative Leaders
The True Blue Fellowship (formerly the Fellowship Grant Program) aims to connect and empower youth around the world to leverage the creative arts to enact change in local communities to safeguard the ocean, waterways, and the climate. If you want to make a difference in your community, Bow Seat invite you to participate in the Fellowship! The Fellowship is an initiative originally created and led by the Future Blue Youth Council (FBYC), a diverse group of Bow Seat alumni working together to empower their peers to advocate for a healthy, sustainable, and equitable future.
The fellowship program provides mentorship, capacity building, and funding of up to $2,500 for at least 10 youth-led projects that address ocean, waterways, and/or climate change issues in their local communities through a creative arts lens.
- Projects may be of any duration, as long as they meet the Fellowship goals:
- Utilize the creative arts as the primary method for awareness and/or action.
- Co-create with and engage others in your local community
- Have a tangible impact on your local community and environment
Bow Seat’s Fellowship is focused specifically on the ocean, waterways, and/or climate change. This can encompass a wide variety of environmental and social justice issues, so be creative and consider the vast intersectionalities between people and the planet.
Who Can Apply?
- Youth ages 13-24 (at the start of the Fellowship period in January)
- Young people worldwide (applications must be in English)
- Individuals or classes, groups, clubs, or organizations
- New or emerging projects that are less than two years old (clubs or organizations that are more than two years old may apply so long as the proposed project is less than two years old)
Why Participate?
If selected, you will receive:
- Funding up to $2,500 USD
- Access to a community of other Fellows and Capacity Building Programs
- Mentorship and support from the Future Blue Youth Council and Bow Seat Staff
Regardless of whether or not you are selected, all applicants will have access to resources to help develop your grant writing, project management, and fundraising skills!
Rules & Eligibility
Who May Enter
- This program is open to young people worldwide ages 13-24; applications must be in English.
- Proof of age, identity, or eligibility may be required after application submission.
- Applications may be submitted by an individual or by a group of unlimited size. Groups must select one group leader to serve as primary contact.
- Projects may be new or emerging (no older than 2 years).
- Projects utilize the creative arts as its primary method to enact change.
- Projects are related to safeguarding the ocean, waterways, and/or the climate.
- Only one application per youth is permitted. However, youth may submit to other Bow Seat programs such as the Ocean Awareness Contest.
- Fellows will be required to submit quarterly reports including a mid-year and end-of-year report that detail project updates
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