In the face of a falling economy, an energy crisis, fragmented and inequitable communities, and the growing threat of global warming, youth are coming together to create and implement solutions that address all of these challenges together. These are solutionaries - youth leaders who work as innovative organizers across issue lines to build the green economy as an engine for local opportunity, climate and energy solutions, and social justice.
This summer, youth will gather in communities across the nation for the Summer of Solutions - a training ground for its participants and a launching pad for the solutionary vision. With the support of local partnerships that they will forge and a national network of fellow solutionaries, participants will create self-sustaining projects that will have a direct impact on their communities and that will serve as models for others to build on.
The Summer of Solutions is a grassroots, volunteer-based, people-powered program, and we rely on people just like you for just about everything – from the project expertise, to the local partnerships, to the financial support for the young people dedicating their summer to build the solutions. We are hosted by a student-led group called Grand Aspirations, which is fiscally sponsored by Global Exchange.
Check us out! Then help make it happen!
See website above to:
1) Apply to be in a Grand Aspirations working group
2) Donate to Summer of Solutions
For more information, contact Timothy Den Herder-Thomas at: timothy@grandaspirations.org
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Grand Aspirations empowers, connects, and supports youth leaders as they create innovative, self-sustaining, and inter-dependent initiatives that systemically integrate climate and energy solutions, economic security, and social justice.
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