Youth Leadership
Ready for the world ahead
Youth Leadership for the Environment, our newest initiative, exists to support a thriving Oregon by empowering youth to use their leadership skills in the environmental sector.
Our Youth Leadership program supports organizations that give high-school age youth:
- Exposure to schools, businesses, and organizations where they can see themselves in environmental work.
- Opportunities to build connections to blue and green career pathways, through educational credits, paid internships and stipends.
- Access to hands-on learning activities in the Oregon outdoors.
- A social network of like-minded peers to share their interests and experiences with.
Developing the next generation of environmental leaders
To help develop the next generation of environmental leaders, we support organizations across Oregon that provide critical learning and leadership opportunities for youth.
Skills Training
- Leadership development
- Job skill building opportunities
- Media and storytelling
- Community engagement
- Advocacy and organizing
- Certifications and college credits
- Peer Networking
Leadership Experience
- Internships in agriculture, forestry, natural resources, climate, and watershed management
- Hands-on training and skill building opportunities
- Exposure to leaders in the environmental sector and beyond
- Connections to colleges, universities, federal agencies, businesses
Featured Grantees
Interested in learning more about the work of our grantees? Learn more about these groups and the work they are doing to prepare teens to lead positive change in their communities.
Rogue Climate and Rogue Action Center
A Partnership Built on Youth Community Organizing: Rogue Climate and Rogue Action Center
Funding Area:
Youth Leadership
Location:
Jackson County
Tappin Roots
A Seminal Internship Program Values Black and Brown High Schoolers and Empowers the Environmental and Community Leaders of the Future
Funding Area:
Youth Leadership
Location:
Multnomah County
Hatfield Futures Project
Designing for Connection: Hatfield Futures Students Propose Solutions to Critical Challenges Facing Oregon Communities
Funding Area:
Youth Leadership
Location:
Multnomah County
Lifting up youth leaders
Serving Oregon's youth together
We work with staff representing amazing youth serving organizations across the state to provide networking, learning, and hands-on training experiences as part of our Youth Leadership Network. We believe youth-serving staff are essential for the care and success of our next generation of leaders and that they deserve their own opportunities for growth, inspiration, and connection.
APANO
Beyond Toxics
Blueprint
Butte Falls
Capaces
Coos Watershed
ELSO
Environmental Center
Euvalcree
Friends of Tryon
High Desert Partnership
Impact NW
Lomakatsi
Long Tom Watershed
Marys River Watershed
NaturConnect
PSU
Rios to Rivers
Rogue Action
Rogue Climate
Soul River
SupaFresh
Tappin Roots
Vamanos
Wallowa Resources
