Bow Seat True Blue Fellowship

Bow Seat True Blue Fellowship is sponsored by Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs. This fellowship supports young people aged 16 to 24 worldwide who are using creativity to drive environmental action. It provides funding, peer support, and capacity-building to grow projects that protect the ocean, waterways, and climate through a creative arts lens.

True Blue Fellowship | Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservation Where Creativity Meets Environmental Action The True Blue Fellowship connects and empowers youth around the world 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-centered model to uplift youth enacting transformational change in their communities. It is not simply a grant program, it is an incubator for creative environmental leadership worldwide. If you want to make a difference in your community, we invite you to participate in the True Blue Fellowship!

The True Blue 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. Projects should be at least one year in duration (January to December), and meet the following Fellowship goals: Utilize the creative arts as the primary method for awareness and/or action.

Co-create with and engage others in your local community Have a tangible impact on your local community and environment Bow Seat’s True Blue Fellowship is focused specifically on the ocean, waterways, and/or climate change. This can encompass a wide variety of environmental and social justice issues, so be creative and consider the vast intersectionalities between people and the planet.

Youth ages 16-24 (at the start of the Fellowship period in January). Applications must be submitted in English. Translation tools such as Google Translate may be used for the written application.

Because the Fellowship includes discussions and collaboration with peers from around the world, applicants should be comfortable communicating in spoken English. Individuals, groups, or organizations. If applying as a group or organization, please 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. Organizations or groups older than two years may apply if the proposed project is less than two years old.

If selected, you will receive: Access to a community of other Fellows and Capacity Building Programs Support from the Future Blue Youth Council and Bow Seat Staff Regardless of whether or not you are selected, all applicants will have access to resources to help develop your grant writing, project management, and fundraising skills! Congratulations winners of the 2025 Ocean Awareness Contest!

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