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Founded in 2011, Maya's Ideas 4 The Planet is a 501(c)3 environmental, humanitarian, and arts focused nonprofit founded by Maya Penn with a mission to fight for environmental justice, gender mental health in regard to climate anxiety, and diversity in STEM and tech in creative careers, among other social good efforts.
To celebrate the 12th anniversary of Maya’s Ideas 4 The Planet (MI4TP) we are excited to be giving more seed grant to support grassroots nonprofits across the US. Applications close December 30th, 2023.
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.
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.
March 2020 we created face masks from recycled and remnant fabric from the Maya's Ideas sustainable fashion line, and American Eagle donated to us 500 disposable 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.
In 2013 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, Cameroon, and Somalia.
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