CAPTAIN PLANET FOUNDATION INC
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Mission Statement
Captain Planet Foundation (CPF) works collaboratively to engage and empower young people to be problem solvers for the planet.
About This Cause
About Captain Planet Foundation (CPF): Based on the critically-acclaimed animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers, CPF was co-founded in 1991 by media mogul Ted Turner and producer Barbara Pyle as a corporate foundation of TBS. In 2002, Captain Planet Foundation separated from TBS and became a 501(c)3 public charity, with the stated mission to work collaboratively to engage and empower young people to be problem solvers for the planet. CPF is both a grant-making foundation and a programmatic foundation. Through its small grant program, it has funded over 2,700 hands-on environmental education projects with schools and non-profits that serve children in all 50 U.S. states and in 35 countries internationally. More than 1.6 million children have directly participated in and benefited from these educational projects. In addition to providing small grants, CPF operates the following programs: Project Learning Garden (providing schools with onsite learning laboratories and healthy food access); Project Hero (a web-based and project-based learning platform for students to save locally threatened species & ecosystems); and Changemakers (direct action and campaign training for young people that promotes their ability to leverage the intersections between technology, innovation, the environment and personal action). Through its four (4) main program areas, CPF invests in high-quality, solution-based programs that empower youth to become environmental stewards and global environmental change-makers: 1. ecoSolution Grants Program – Providing small grants ($500-$2,500) to formal and informal educators who are giving youth an opportunity to learn through hands-on, environmental education projects that are solving for real problems in their schools and communities. 2. Project Learning Garden (PLG) – Encouraging teachers to use school gardens as an onsite learning laboratory and instructional space while: connecting students to food origins; helping kids develop an early palate for fresh fruits and vegetables; and an interest and affinity for natural systems. 3. Project Hero – Encouraging students to act on their natural empathy to help species that are endangered, threatened, or in decline in the places where they live. 4. Changemakers – Supporting, connecting, training, and empowering youth to become Changemakers for environmental, social, and community-impact issues. We are advancing the development of leadership and functional skills that allow students to become global Changemakers. Most recently, CPF partnered with Lonely Whale and eight other ocean health organizations on Ocean Heroes Bootcamp.