Tomorrow Project Challenges

"Don't lose hope." That was the final message to the world from Jane Goodall, renowned ethologist and activist known for her ground-breaking studies of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania and a lifetime of global conservation work.

Consider how rights are diminishing for LGBTQ+ people, women, Native Americans, people of color, people with disabilities, and other historically marginalized groups. Write about the impact this has on you, your friends & family, your community.

How do you celebrate human rights through art? How do you protest their erosion in America today? In photography, painting, sketching, digital art, or another medium of your choice, send a powerful message through your art.

If all collective knowledge was destroyed, except for one brief but informative sentence, what would you like the world to know?

Poetry steps in where uncertainty and chaos take root. Poetry lifts us up and moves us forward with determination. Explore these poems of hope and resilience. If you are inspired, share your own.

Create art that explores the many impacts of the climate crisis and celebrates the wonders and beauty of Earth. Find inspiration in YWP Alumni Advisor Sam Aikman's series of visual art prompts. 

Consider the communities in your life and write about them with the help of prompts and examples! 

How would you illustrate the America you know, or remember, or wish for? It could be your ideal vision or something small but representative of your everyday life. Using the artistic medium of your choice, capture your America.

What is to become of the American health care system with vaccine-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in charge and top leaders of the CDC resigning? Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is among those calling for Kennedy's resignation. What do you think?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." July 4, 1776

Using the medium of your choice, interpret the concept of democracy. Consider President Abraham Lincoln's "government of the people, by the people, for the people." You can take a realistic photograph or create an imaginative illustration. 

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." Respond to this message from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963.