New global funding opportunity: $1M for youth-led climate action
About the event:
We’re thrilled to share the Emerging Climate Champions Award—a $25 million global Open Call offering $1 million in flexible, multiyear funding to youth-led organizations advancing climate solutions around the world! This award centers youth voices and community-based climate solutions.
If your organization is youth-led (ages 15–35), has been operating for at least two years, and is driving impactful, community-rooted climate work—this is your chance.
Register to apply by August 15, 2025
Submit complete applications by September 22, 2025
About the organiser:
Enlight Foundation focuses on education equality and youth empowerment. For this decade, the foundation is focused on three primary pillars: Youth mental wellbeing, youth-driven climate change solutions, and next-generation social change makers. To create systems change, the foundation invests in young people, elevates youth voices, and works collaboratively with other foundations, researchers, and nonprofits. By identifying and investing in ambitious social entrepreneurs and bold ideas, providing flexible and multiyear grants as catalytic capital to support pilots, research, and scale proven solutions, we collaborate with like-minded funders whenever possible for bigger collective impact.
The Patchwork Collective is a family philanthropic effort supporting locally-led solutions to global challenges. We fund diverse, bold, community-driven organizations and leaders across climate justice, social equity, and global health. Our mission is to empower the most vulnerable and marginalized communities, wherever they may be. By placing local leaders and communities at the center of our work, we preserve community agency, address inequity.