Nominations open for Brower Youth Awards 2024

A Few Tips

• Leadership:
  • The Brower Youth Awards are looking to recognize the leader of a group or an effort. While they will consider applicants who are implementing individual efforts, it is the tendency to focus on leaders of groups and efforts.
• Research and science fair projects:
  • Many research and science fair projects are individual and/or one-time efforts. As such, they are difficult to compare to the leadership of ongoing projects. They will not consider applicants who are implementing research and science fair projects, unless it is part of ongoing environmental efforts involving a larger group.
• Earth Day and one-time conferences:
  • They understand the impact and necessity of Earth Day, conferences, and one-time gatherings. However, they typically will not consider one-time gatherings for the award, unless the event produced long-term measurable impacts in which you have continued to play a significant leadership role.

Award Details

• Each of this year’s six recipients of the Brower Youth Awards will receive a $3,000 cash prize, a short film produced about their work, and flight and lodging accommodations for a weeklong trip to the San Francisco Bay Area.
• During their stay in California, the recipients will participate in leadership activities and workshops on coaching, visioning, public speaking and developing media relations. The week of activities culminates in the awards ceremony. The Brower Youth Awards program invests in the winners’ continued success by providing ongoing access to resources, mentors, and opportunities to develop leadership skills.

What they look for?

• Applicants are assessed on the following criteria:
  • Outstanding Youth Leadership
    • You played the major leadership role in creating, organizing and implementing your project or campaign(s).
  • Issue & Approach
    • Your project is applying fresh solutions and approaches to relevant environmental challenges.
  • Project Impact, Scalability, & Replicability
    • Is the project’s impact significant? Can your work be used as a model for other communities or campuses?
  • Charisma, Personal Commitment, & Trajectory
    • What draws you to this work? What would be winning a Brower Youth Award mean to you?

Eligibility Criteria

• Youth environmental change leaders ages 13 to 22 (as of April 8, 2024) living in North America (including Mexico, Canada, and some Caribbean Islands) and U.S. territories are encouraged to apply.

For more information, visit NLI.