Deadline: September 22, 2023
Applications for the Climate Parent Fellowship 2024 are now open. Across the world, parents, grandparents, and caregivers are taking climate action to protect the kids they love, children everywhere, and our shared home. The Climate Parent Fellowship aims to support parent-led, intergenerational, and family-centered climate engagement work.
Fellows receive training, mentorship, and a part-time stipend, which aims to make their climate organizing work more sustainable. This Fellowship is an opportunity to be part of a supportive and diverse peer-to-peer learning network. Most Fellows are focused on parent-led climate engagement, but this Fellowship is also open to non-parent applicants who are focusing on engaging people across generations.
Benefits
- Fellows receive part-time stipend, the grants will range from $15,000 – $20,000 USD.
- Fellows will have access to peer-to-peer learning, monthly training/discussion sessions, communications support, and some 1:1 mentoring.
Eligibility
- Open to people who are working on parent-led, intergenerational, and/or family-focused climate engagement and organizing. They strongly encourage people to apply if they are already doing work in this area or if they have an idea for a new project that would help catalyze climate action across generations.
- The ideal candidate would be an inspiring organizer, activist, or leader who is already engaged in developing new ideas or leading organizational strategy, is highly collaborative, and does not have access to existing funding sources. They are interested in Fellows engaging in a range of climate engagement and movement strategies: creative (storytelling, film, blog, podcast, book, social media, etc), school campaigns, legal strategies, sustainable behavior programs, grassroots/community organizing, corporate focussed strategies, and others.
- They encourage applications from parents, grandparents, carers and anyone working on intergenerational and family-friendly climate organizing. For example, some of the previous Fellows have been youth working across generations to catalyse climate action, although the majority have been parents, and they expect this to be the case with the 2024 cohort.
- Candidates from all countries are eligible to apply. They particularly welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and from communities most impacted by climate change or impacted by other kinds of environmental, social, and economic injustice. At least half of the Fellows appointed will be from the Global South. They’d also encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds, identities and abilities in the Global North.
- This Fellowship is an opportunity for individuals; it is not open to group applications. Where there are several people from a single group or organization interested in the Fellowship, they highly encourage groups to discuss, select and nominate one person per organization.
Selection Criteria
- Alignment with the climate parent/intergenerational movement
- Vision
- Determination
- Collaboration
- Innovation, Creativity, and Courage
Application
The Fellowship application will close on Friday, September 22, 2023 at 11:59pm ET. They anticipate interviewing candidates in October and November and making final decisions by December. The fellowship starts January 1, 2024.
For more information, visit Climate Parent Fellowship.
