About Youth Lead Change
Our purpose is to empower youth by teaching leadership and social entrepreneurship skills based on empathy, inclusion and equity. Our collaborators are Outward Bound and Peace First, two international organizations providing world-class programs to support young people in becoming the change they want to see in the world and making change.
Outward Bound offers year-round adventure-based leadership and teambuilding courses which inspire compassion, inclusion and service to others. With mountain, river, coastal and Everglades basecamps in North Carolina, Florida and Patagonia, Argentina, North Carolina Outward Bound has been changing lives through challenge and discovery for over 50 years.
Peace First is a free social entrepreneurship platform that helps young people around the world to become powerful peacemakers for sustainable social and environmental change. “Social entrepreneurship” applies business principals to solve social, cultural or environmental problems in practical and innovative ways. Peace First provides national and international youth symposia to help young people scale their initiatives through collaboration and increasing levels of grant awards.
Youth Lead Change is the local network of support providing monthly in-person coaching workshops, a webpage to promote each youth project and engage volunteers, and local partners to increase impact.