In September 2022, URI launched the URI Youth Seed Grant Initiative to support eight projects across the network with $500 each. The Seed Grant continued into 2024 with 8 Cooperation Circles (CCs) benefiting from this grant.
The Seed Grant Initiative aimed to:
- Contribute to the goal of the URI network by ensuring CCs are collaborating and using the benefits of the network to strengthen their work in local communities
- Contribute to the goals of youth engagement in URI, by encouraging youth-led projects that ensure the meaningful inclusion and leadership of young people
- Contribute to the purpose of URI, by actively supporting projects that are demonstrating this purpose at a local grassroots level.
Summary of the 2023/2024 grant.
64 applications were received for the 2023/24 round of Youth Seed Grants.
A selection committee was established to make the selection and 8 Seed Grants of $500 were awarded to Cooperation Circle projects that were youth-led and collaborative initiatives to advance the URI Purpose.
Awarded projects were in South Africa, Malawi, Uganda, Jordan and Nigeria.
In total, projects reached approximately 400 people engaging in interfaith changemaking efforts in their communities.
