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Visit funder's website →Columbus Youth Climate Action Fund is a grant from the City of Columbus, Ohio (funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies) that supports youth-led local sustainability projects. The fund distributes microgrants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 to young people working on environmental initiatives in Columbus. Past projects have included rooftop gardens, tree planting, and pollinator gardens at schools and universities.
Eligible applicants are groups led by young people aged 15 to 24 that are incorporated as 501(c)(3) nonprofits with a bank account. Projects must be new and located within the City of Columbus.
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Columbus given $100K from Bloomberg Philanthropies for youth grants Growing the future: Sustainable Columbus grant funding is open to youth-led projects Sophia Veneziano Columbus Dispatch March 22, 2025, 6:00 a. m. ET Columbus has been awarded $100,000 from Bloomberg Philanthropies to support youth-led sustainability projects.
Young people aged 15 to 24 can apply for microgrants through Sustainable Columbus. Spring has finally arrived, and central Ohio is continuing to cultivate growth with the youth leading the way. Columbus received $100,000 from Bloomberg Philanthropies to continue the city's Youth Climate Action Fund to distribute the majority of microgrants to local sustainability projects to young people aged 15 to 24.
Last year, Columbus received $50,000 from Bloomberg Philanthropies, and it was dispersed among 10 youth-led projects. Youth who may be interested in participating can submit applications to be accepted on a rolling basis to Sustainable Columbus . An application PDF can be found on the Sustainable Columbus website, and it can be emailed to Melanie Ford at MLFord@columbus.
gov with the email subject line: [Your Project Title] – YCAF Application. The deadline has passed for the first round of reviews, but the application will remain open until all funds are allocated. Supporting student sustainability One such former microgrant recipient is Knowlton Conservation Corps , a student-led organization committed to sustainability at the Ohio State University.
Haley Trolio is now a fourth-year landscape architecture student at Ohio State. Throughout her college career, she noticed no one was maintaining the rooftop garden at Knowlton Hall, the architecture building. Deciding to do it herself, she launched Knowlton Conservation Corps and began taking on the project with what started as just three other students and grew into a movement.
"We were super-duper happy when we found out that we were one of the grantees. They actually gifted us over double the money that we initially asked for," Trolio said. Beyond fixing the Knowlton rooftop, the group was able to donate planter boxes to Valleyview Elementary School in Columbus so the school could grow pollinator and vegetable gardens .
Along with Trolio's project at Ohio State, Columbus State Community College’s Sustainability Group was a 2024 grant recipient to plant trees on the college's campus. The group's leader, Haley Middendorf, said the grant made a dream that felt unobtainable a reality.
"C State is historically a hotspot for (the) underprivileged community and a lot of students here have been in welfare systems, so it helps build the community and show (that) people do care and bring people closer to nature," she said. "It wouldn't have been possible or as easily accessible without this grant. This grant has helped tremendously."
This year, initial awards are planned for April 22, or Earth Day, and proposed projects should target completion by November 2025. Sophia Veneziano is a Columbus Dispatch reporter supported by the Center for HumanKindness at The Columbus Foundation. She may be reached at sveneziano@dispatch.
com . The Dispatch retains full editorial independence for all content.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Groups led by young people between the ages of 15 and 24 that are incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, with a bank account to receive funds. Projects must be new and located in the City of Columbus. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $1,000 - $5,000. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
This listing does not include a published deadline, but it is an annual program. Check the official notice for the current cycle's exact dates.
Columbus Youth Climate Action Fund is funded by City of Columbus, Ohio (Bloomberg Philanthropies). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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