🌍 Creative Arts Fellowship for Young Environmentalists 🎨 Protect the Ocean and Climate with the True Blue Fellowship 🌊 (Up to $2,500)

If you are a young creative who wants to use your art to protect the planet, the True Blue Fellowship is a powerful opportunity. This global fellowship empowers youth to use the creative arts to safeguard the ocean, waterways, and climate, offering seed funding, mentorship, and a worldwide community to help turn your vision into real impact in your own community.

About the Fellowship

The True Blue Fellowship, run by Bow Seat and the Future Blue Youth Council, connects and empowers youth around the world who are leveraging the creative arts to safeguard the ocean, waterways, and climate. Through seed funding, peer support, and capacity building, the Fellowship follows a trust-based, creative arts-centred model to uplift youth enacting transformational change in their communities. It is not simply a grant programme; it is an incubator for creative environmental leadership worldwide.

The Fellowship provides mentorship, capacity-building programming, and up to USD $2,500 in funding for 12 youth leading creative arts-based projects that address ocean, waterways, and/or climate change issues in their local communities. Its focus spans a wide variety of environmental and social justice issues, so applicants are encouraged to be creative and consider the vast intersections between people and the planet.

What's in It for You

💰 Funding of up to $2,500 USD to bring your project to life

🤝 Access to a community of other Fellows and capacity-building programmes

🧭 Mentorship and support from the Future Blue Youth Council and Bow Seat staff

📚 Even if you are not selected, all applicants gain access to resources to help develop their grant writing, project management, and fundraising skills

Who Can Apply

🎂 Youth aged 16 to 24 at the start of the Fellowship period in January

🌍 Young people worldwide

👥 Individuals, groups, or organisations (groups or organisations should designate one project leader to serve as the Fellow and primary point of contact)

🆕 New or emerging projects that are less than two years old (organisations or groups older than two years may apply if the proposed project is less than two years old)

🗣️ Applications must be submitted in English, and because the Fellowship includes discussions and collaboration with peers from around the world, applicants should be comfortable communicating in spoken English (translation tools may be used for the written application)