Crossroads Fund invites applications for Youth Fund for Social Change. The Youth Fund (YF) provides resources to youth working on social justice issues in their communities, including youth activists who want to change and challenge existing policies and/or organized structures that prevent their communities from achieving equality.
The Chicago-based Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on racial, social, and economic justice issues in the Chicago area.
Through the fund, grants between $3,000 and $15,000 will be awarded to support projects ranging from community, education and schools, health, environment, incarceration, media, racism, discrimination, voting, etc. Projects should be in the Chicago metropolitan area (city of Chicago and suburbs) and northwestern Indiana, which the fund defines as the area between the state border and Gary, Indiana.
Youth (up to 26 years old) with an existing project or a concrete new idea on achieving social change and youth organizations with youth-led projects that focus on social change issues may apply. Special funding is reserved for youth working together across neighborhoods, race, class, education, ability, sexual orientation, gender, etc.
