Youth Venture
Youth Venture inspires and invests in teams of young people globally to design and launch their own lasting social ventures, enabling them to have this transformative experience of leading positive social change. Youth Venture helps Venturers through the process of designing and launching their ventures, providing guidance, how-to’s, and a process for designing and pitching a venture idea. When the Venture team is ready to launch, Youth Venture offers seed funding of up to $1,000, guidance, tools, and support.

Do Something Grants
Did you create a sustainable community action project, program or organization that you want to grow? Do you need money to put your ideas into action? They give out a $500 Do Something Grant every week to help young people, 25 and under!

Campus Progress
Campus Progress offers grants of $200-$1,000 to students working on innovative and hard-hitting education and advocacy campaigns in the environment and other issues.  The grant is given only to student organizations, not individuals.  Recipients of Campus Progress Action Grants also receive communications and messaging strategy and support from Campus Progress / Center for American Progress staff and access to policy experts on their issue.  Ongoing deadline.

Youth Service America
Youth Service America offers a number of grants for young folks doing service-learning projects.  This includes $2000 Dollars for Change Grants for youth ages 12-25 engaging 100+ peers in service, up to $1,000 for the State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grant focused on semester-long projects culminating around April’s Global Youth Service Day, and the Disney Minnie Grants of up to $500 to support child-led service projects focused on the environment or other issues. 

Sparkseed
Sparkseed is a nonprofit organization that invests in the top social entrepreneurs of tomorrow as they lead social ventures today. They provide guidance, funding, and tools to college students who will change the world. 

Planet Connect
Do you have an innovative solution to protect the environment?  Planet Connect can help make it happen! Planet Connect is a new online network for high school students to learn about the environment plus green college and career options.  They're looking for your creative ideas to fix an environmental problem at your school or in your community. Planet Connect is offering grant winners $1,000 awards with $500 to support your idea and $500 for an environmental internship in your community.

Sparkplug Foundation Grants
The Sparkplug Foundation supports grassroots organizing projects - and they give to both individuals and small non-profits.  Sparkplug gives preference to projects run on small budgets, projects of smallish organizations, and projects that are less likely to receive corporate, institutional or government funding. Along the same lines, they are somewhat less likely to fund university-based projects than other projects.

American Association of University Women’s Community Action Grants
The American Association of University Women offers one-year and two-year Community Action Grants. One-year grants provide seed money for new projects. Two-year grants provide start-up funds for longer-term programs that address the particular needs of the community and develop girls' sense of efficacy through leadership or advocacy opportunities. Topic areas are unrestricted, but should include a clearly defined activity that promotes education and equity for women and girls. (Grant applicants must be women.) Grants range from $2,000 to $10,000, and applicants do not need to have 501(C)(3) status.  Deadline in January.

NetAid Scholarship
NetAid Global Action Awards honor high school students in the United States who have organized and led a project that has impacted people in poor countries, or raised awareness about global poverty in their own communities.  The honorees are awarded $5,000 for college or a charitable cause of their choice.  Rolling deadline.

Morris K. Udall Scholarships
The Morris K. Udall Foundation awards eighty $5000 scholarships annually to sophomore and junior students committed to pursuing careers in the environmental or tribal public policy fields.  See website for full details, application process is complicated and applications are due in early March.

Switzer Environmental Fellowships
The Switzer Foundation (endowed by the inventors of Day Glo Paint) provides twenty $15,000 cash awards to grad students in California and New England whose studies are directed toward improving the quality of our natural environment.  Fellows are matched with a mentor and are eligible to receive funding to work at the non-profit of their choosing.  Application deadline in February.