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Conscious Lifestyle: Empowering Students and Schools

Well-known organizations like Ashoka and Echoing Green have done a lot to support and raise the profile of social entrepreneurship around the globe. But for young, budding social innovators with big ideas for addressing today’s social problems but limited cache when it comes to experience and resources, it can still be quite difficult to find organizations willing to invest help them get started.


Photo by toastycakes on Flickr Conscious Lifestyle is an organization that has recently emerged to offer support for such young entrepreneurs. Joining the ranks of organizations like Starting Bloc with a strong reputation for fostering fledgling change agents, Conscious Lifestyle in partnership with Youth Venture offers seed grants of up to $1000 as well as ongoing training and technical assistance for its fellows.

Last year the organization funded ventures such as the Eco-Representatives project out of Barnard College and the Peace in the Holy Land project out of the University of Michigan-Dearborn and they’re always on the lookout for similarly innovative ventures to fund. Those interested in applying can click here. They’re also accepting applications for Conscious Lifestyle Liaisons to serve as mentors for these social innovators.

If you’d like to know more about Conscious Lifestyle and the bright young minds behind the organizations, visit www.consciouslifestyle.org.