Future Generations
Creating pathways for young people through scholarships, school initiatives, leadership development, and youth-focused opportunities.
Young people are already leading change in their communities today. CLF invests in helping them realize their potential and expand their impact. The future of resilient communities depends on the next generation of leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, artists, and advocates having access to opportunities today.
We prioritize
Scholarship Programs
Supporting students in climate, health, entrepreneurship, arts and culture
Youth Leadership Development
Programs amplifying young voices
Opportunities
Places where innovation and education intersect to improve learning and expand access
Our Goal
A future where young leaders are equipped, empowered, and resourced to shape inclusive, resilient, and globally connected communities at home and across the diaspora.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
CLF Scholarship Program
In 2015, CLF launched undergraduate scholarships for students in Barbados and has provided them ever since. Now known as the Barbados Scholarship Program, this support covers up to 85% of tuition for students pursuing post-secondary education in areas aligned with CLF’s pillars of work. In 2024, three scholars were selected to pursue studies across some of CLF’s focus areas. The CLF scholars also expressed the desire to return to the Caribbean and work in their fields after graduating.
GRANTEE HIGHLIGHTS
Barbados
Lasting resilience starts with clean water. At Charles F. Broome Memorial and Westbury Primary Schools, CLF has partnered with Eco SkyWater to install solar-powered systems that draw clean drinking water from the air, giving nearly 1,000 students free, continuous access every school day.
Both schools were previously upgraded by CLF into Category 5 hurricane shelters. These new systems build on that foundation, running entirely off-grid so they can supply drinking water to the surrounding community even when the power fails after a storm.
Charles F. Broome Memorial and Westbury Primary now stand as models of what it means to invest in the next generation: places where children learn, shelter, and thrive, equipped for whatever the future holds.
Barbados
Climate education works best when it meets young people where they are. At the University of the West Indies Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), that means bringing climate justice into the classroom through Popular Theatre.
CERMES has partnered with the Voices From The Shore Theatre Collective, seven women fish processors trained in performance-based storytelling, to reach schoolchildren across Barbados. Together, they carry lessons on climate change, climate justice, and blue justice into five primary schools, and through games, stories, and interactive theatre, more than 150 students will encounter ideas the school curriculum doesn't yet cover.
The Voices collective has already taken this work regional, performing Sea Woman's Story at the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute conference in Guadeloupe. With CLF's support, that same storytelling power now reaches the youngest generation, equipping children in coastal communities to understand and speak up for the islands they will inherit.
GRANTEE HIGHLIGHTS
Barbados
Best-in-class hurricane shelter
After a decade as CLF partner, Westbury was upgraded to the highest-ranking hurricane shelter by Barbados' Department of Emergency Management—featuring a new roof, hurricane shutters, disability-accessible facilities, upgraded WASH facilities, increased water storage, and grid-tied solar with battery and generator backup. Students can resume school in a resilient environment even after disasters.
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