All Creation grants require that a minimum of 2 (sometimes 3, depending on the stream) Indigenous youth aged 15-29 design and run the project. This means the youth leads:
- Come up with the idea and structure of their project
- Complete the application
- Attend necessary meetings with their IYR Grant Coordinator
- Attend mandatory workshops
- Plan and run the project
- Take charge of their project evaluation
- And serve as primary contacts for their project
If that sounds like a lot, don’t worry! We’ll explain more and we encourage youth teams to have support from adults too. Successful applicants will also be assigned an IYR Grant Coordinator to support them along the way.
Sometimes youth groups will apply to do a project in partnership with a larger organization and while that would still qualify, the project itself would still need to be meaningfully youth-led as outlined above.
