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Maya's Ideas 4 The Planet (MI4TP)
Maya's Ideas 4 The Planet is a 501(c)(3) environmental, humanitarian, and arts focused nonprofit founded by Maya Penn when she was just an 11 year old girl. We recognize the power of youth, gender equity, and the arts, in our mission to create a more sustainable and equitable present and future.
Meet The Winners of OUR 2024 NonProfit Seed Grant PROGRAM
The Garden Club Project
The Garden Club Project
The Garden Club Project
The Garden Club Project's mission is to help end hunger and encourage kids to eat healthier. The Garden Club Project grows, harvests, and shares produce with the local community.
All Access Arts
The Garden Club Project
The Garden Club Project
A provide youth with access to the arts offering a creative outlet for the next generation of artists and leaders. All Access Arts works with shelters, community organizations and schools to provide art materials and volunteer-led instruction.
PrettyPonytails
The Garden Club Project
PrettyPonytails
PrettyPonytails empowers underserved girls worldwide by providing haircare kits and educational empowerment to boost self-esteem and confidence.
OUR Partners, DONORS, and supporters
CLIMATE STORYTELLING EVENT SERIES
With the release of upcoming environmental action adventure ASALI: Power of The Pollinators, MI4TP is launching an event series across the US focused on accessibility to environmental education, nationwide screenings climate storytelling workshops, and native pollinator garden installations to help our real life pollinators and the ecosystems that depend on them.
Learn more about the film at asali.movie
Food Bank Support
We ramped up our supplying and supporting of local Atlanta food banks and food pantries because youth out of school who rely and depend on school lunches for food, and other vulnerable communities and families dealing with food insecurity, are going through an incredibly difficult time and need our support now more than ever.
COVID-19 Relief Response
March 2020 American Eagle donated to us 500 masks. We have been providing these masks along with personal care items to the homeless shelters for women and children we work with in Atlanta.
The Pad Project
In 2012 Maya launched a project where she designed and created eco-friendly reusable/rewashable sanitary pads for girls in countries in need. Many menstruators that have access to education cannot go to school on their monthly cycle because they have no sanitary pads to wear and taking around 5 days a month out of school can lead to youth dropping out of school. Since the project launch Maya's Ideas 4 The Planet has worked with MedShare and Youth Action Without Borders to distribute 3,000 sanitary pad kits. Since then the kits have been shipped to healthcare facilities in Haiti, Senegal, and Cameroon.
From VICE
Left: Women with eco-friendly sanitary pads in healthcare facility in Babak, Senegal --- Right: Madame Bafou Ba President Nationale Sénégal Croix Rouge and President Babacar Sow with Maya's Ideas 4 The Planet masks
Climate Anxiety + Eco-Focused Emotional/Mental Health Awareness
Over Maya’s 15 years of environmental activism, her voice has always been uniquely centered on the human, emotional, and mental side of environmental crises, understanding from a young age that environmental issues are human rights issues, and emotional and mental support and wellbeing is integral to the impact of any movement — and these issues largely impact marginalized communities and young generations. This has been reflected in her public speaking, workshops, and nonprofit work.