Call for Proposals: Roots Micro-Grants Program

Characteristics

• Community-driven approach: Projects, initiatives, research, or campaigns originating from grassroots efforts at the local level, driven by the community.
• Ambitious and transformative community solutions: Applicants should demonstrate innovative strategies focused on transformative, intersectional, and equitable solutions to address the root causes of the climate crisis.
• Support for marginalized communities: Initiatives actively engage and provide aid and assistance to marginalized communities, including but not limited to, sharing activist knowledge, capacity-building, facilitating leadership workshops, organizing networking events, and hosting climate-focused programs.
• Promotion of intergenerational collaboration: Priority will be given to initiatives that address and foster relationships across generations, seeking to bridge the intergenerational gap and reach audiences beyond existing echo chambers.
• Wellbeing: Groups that put an emphasis on the wellbeing of their membership and building resilient structures within their groups and communities.

Benefits

• Capacity Building
  • Micro-grant recipients will have access to Roots training and workshops across their core program to boost their capacity around specific needs. These include their organizing, creative storytelling, resilience and wellbeing, and counter-disinformation training, as well as their affiliated communities of practice. They will also provide opportunities for recipients to take on leadership roles within these programs.
• Coaching Program
  • They will allocate 1 coach to successful initiatives according to your project’s needs. Coaches will be there to support you from project inception to implementation, with a six-monthly reporting cycle. They will offer project-specific advice wherever required, including strategic assistance around tactics, communications, public outputs, lobbying, networking, and outreach.
• Community Building
  • Grantees will be integrated into the wider Roots network and have the opportunity to attend Climate Justice Camps in order to expand their connections with groups in relevant regions or who are working on similar initiatives.
• Media and Social Media Support
  • Grantees will be amplified through the Roots social media channels through storytelling opportunities, videos, and posts. They will also offer local media support to help amplify your initiative and your messages.

Funding Information

• The maximum grant amount available is $10,000 USD per initiative.

Eligibility Criteria

• They support initiatives from those who are aged between 18 and 35.
• At least 70% of the membership of your group should be made up of young people, and those responsible for making decisions in the group should also be between 18 to 35 years old.

Application Requirements

• First and Last Name
• Email
• Date of birth
• Nationality
• Where you are based (city, country)
• Phone number/other ways to contact you
• Position in the organization or group you are representing
• To submit your video, you have two options:
  • Upload your video in a cloud storage platform (e.g., Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive etc.), and then copy and paste the video link into the space provided below.
  • Upload your video to YouTube and set it to ‘unlisted’, only people with the direct link can so view it. (Your video won’t appear in search results, recommendations, or on your channel.) Once uploaded, paste the video link into the space below. Setting the video to unlisted: After uploading your video (or editing an existing one), go to the visibility section. Select unlisted under the visibility options.

For more information, visit Roots.