New Leaders Initiative (NLI) is currently accepting applications for its Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About New Leaders Initiative (NLI) Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership
The annual Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership, the signature event of the New Leaders Initiative, recognizes six outstanding and emerging youth leaders aged 13-22 who are transforming the environmental movement. The award celebrates accomplishments across the full spectrum of the environmental movement, from protecting our seas, cultivating food sovereignty and security, to improving the air quality in frontline communities, and mobilizing youth around the climate emergency.
Benefits of New Leaders Initiative (NLI) Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership
- Recipients receive a $3,000 cash prize, a short film co-produced about their work, a trip to participate in leadership development activities, flight, meals, and lodging accommodations.
- Post event, Brower Youth Award winners join a wide network of over a hundred youth leaders across the world making a difference globally.
New Leaders Initiative (NLI) Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership Requirements
- Open to youth environmental change leaders ages 13 to 22 (as of the application deadline)
- Be living in North America (including Mexico, Canada and U.S territories).
Application Date and Process
- All applications must be completed and submitted online. Please notify us well in advance of the deadline if you foresee any problems with submitting an online application.
- You must complete your own application. Parents, friends, mentors, and teachers cannot complete it for you.
In addition to meeting award eligibility requirements and following all instructions to complete the online application, each applicant must submit:
- a photograph of yourself
- if you are a semifinalist, you will be asked for a letter of support from someone who is familiar with you and your environmental work (cannot be from a parent or guardian)
Application Deadline
31 March, 2026
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