Go Overboard Challenge Grants

Program Supports Youth-Led Community Activities

Burton Snowboards and Girl Overboard author Justina Chen Headley, in partnership with Youth Venture, are co-sponsoring Go Overboard Challenge Grants to find the best youth-led ideas to change the world.

Youth are encouraged to commit to a cause they're already passionate about—whether saving the environment, ending world hunger, or protecting endangered species. Some examples:

• Olympic Gold medal-winning snowboarder Hannah Teter, with the help of Green Mountain Sugar House, bottles Vermont-grown maple syrup, "Hannah's Gold," to earn money for AIDS orphans in Africa.
• Justina Chen Headley co-founded readergirlz, an online book community, to promote teen girl literacy.
• Syrah—a character in Girl Overboard—spearheaded a snowboarding event to raise awareness for cancer.

Applicants then tell how they, their club, team, or school will "Go Overboard." The best ideas will win one of the many grants of up to $1,000 each.

Visit http://genv.net/en-us/burton for more information and to download an application. The deadline to apply is is May 1, 2008.