Nationwide Cleanup Initiative Offers Participating Students The Chance To Earn Scholarships While Cleaning Up Their Communities
DoSomething, the leading digital hub for youth-centered impact and service, has launched its new ‘Street Sweeps’ program, a nationwide initiative to mobilize young people across the U.S. to get out into their communities with their friends and neighbors and friends to clean up their streets, parks, beaches, and rivers—and keep pollution and litter out of communities.
With cleanup events hosted from New York to California, Street Sweeps aims to equip youth—regardless of where they live—to take action to protect our planet from urgent environmental issues, such as pollution. According to recent studies, plastic production is on course to triple by 2060, but less than 10% of it is recycled, and around 8,000 megatons now pollute the planet. This pollution and trash cumulates on our streets and sidewalks in our communities before making their way to major bodies of water.
DoSomething provides participants with a step-by-step toolkit to help them organize or join a cleanup. Their impact is visualized on an interactive national map hosted on DoSomething’s website – and will be offered the chance to win one of two $500 scholarships and learn volunteer credits.
So far Street Sweeps have been hosted in Oakland, Brooklyn, the Bronx, San Diego, Manhattan, Dallas, Houston, and more.
FIND OR HOST A DOSOMETHING ‘STREET SWEEP’ HERE: https://dosomething.org/event/street-sweep
Young people across the U.S. are also invited to join Ripple Effect, a campaign by DoSomething that encourages teens and young adults to craft and share a public-service announcement (PSA) promoting proper trash disposal and protecting local waterways. Participants who submit their PSA by November 30, 2025 will not only raise vital awareness of how litter flows from neighborhood storm drains into rivers and oceans but also become eligible for a $250 scholarship.
Street Sweeps is part of DoSomething’s No Planet B campaign, an initiative that educates and equips young people to do their part to protect our planet and create meaningful global impact through accessible and tangible actions, including local environmental actions such as recycling and protecting waterways and watersheds. The program empowers participants to lead and contribute to sustainability efforts in their own neighborhoods.
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DoSomething.org is the leading digital hub for youth-centered impact and service with over 1 million active members and a 32-year legacy of activating over 8 million young people in every U.S. area code and 189 countries to take action. We fuel young people to change the world. We specialize in transforming civically curious young people into civically committed leaders. Our actions and programs educate and equip young people, ages 13 to 25, to build solutions to the issues that matter most to them. DoSomething has registered 425,000 young people to vote since 2018 and awarded nearly $2 million in scholarships to young people committed to doing good in their communities since 2010.\
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