Youth Climate Action Fund

Government Agency
iSustain score 55

The Youth Climate Justice Fund aims to support climate justice young leaders with trust-based funding, resources, and youth-to-youth capacity development, enabling them to amplify their voices and to keep their vision and influence alive. They work to strengthen existing organizing efforts and support emerging youth movements with a focus on bridging funders and organizers to enable flexible and impactful support. Through youth-to-youth capacity development and resource sharing, they empower and support young people to drive change and build a just and sustainable future. 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 challenge the status quo and push boundaries. The Youth Climate Justice Fund provides core flexible funding to emerging youth climate justice groups. In 2023, they committed funding to 50+ groups globally with a total of $700,000 from 1,800 applications.

Geographic focus

Global

Sector appetite

Climate Adaptation
Climate Mitigation
Youth

Fund size

2,100,000 USD committed to grantee partners

Eligible recipients

Community-level organization

Co-financing requirement

No formal co-financing requirement

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