YOUR LIFE WITH YL
unfolds sort of like this – as you wish – at your own pace
By yourself
Follow stories, contribute online, do activities. They can also be quite big. As you know, some hero*ines operate alone. As you act, you’ll meet helpers and allies.
With Friends
As informal team, it is easier to do activities in public spaces, hands-on projects, activate schools, create vivid photos, reach more families and their relations, also at workplaces.
As a Group
you can become more formal, like a sports team. This can boost your scope of skills, commitment, goals, frequency, reach and impact.
At School
you can unite students of all classes in a Changemaker Student Club, form a HQ, reach 100s of students every day of the year, collaborate with nice teachers, activate parents, use school fests, project weeks and more.
Impact quickly grows huge – if each student donates 1 book you have a kids library. You can do huge 48 hour sponsor runs scoring 10,000s of dollars / euros. You can book speakers, do global partner projects, youth exchanges. Hence, this is a highly recommended goal – also for those acting alone and for adults, as YL Coach (local volunteer).
Beyond School
Groups and especially rockstar Student Clubs are very strong. They can connect with other schools, form partnerships with libraries as outer school HQs, with organizations … for visits, trainings, projects. Once you have a solid team, definitely expand your vision across the district to other districts, to the under/priviledged and to the rural region – which has its own needs, potentials, adult allies and youth teams.
An example path
This typical path starts at bottom left, then walks up, always from left to right.
For each step, you find model activities, tools and partners in YL. Plus, you have coaches on demand. Kids do this. You can do it.
You find this poster elsewhere, easy to read.
From CAPITAL LETTER words you can tell that these steps are rather simple and swiftly grow reach, teams, presence at schools, in public spaces and media.
THEN PICK FROM
400+ Activities
modeled on high impact initiatives pioneered by young and adult changemakers.
FUNdraisers
Plantings
New Music
Wild Stuff
Social Business
Media Production
Free Kids from Poverty
Teach cool skills
Crafts
Vegan Bliss
Charity
Plantings
Music + Arts
In the Wild
Positive News Media
Lifestyle Challenges
YL Crash Course
Vividly document
BADGES
CERTIFICATE
Home, Family & Online Activities
Quick DIY-skills that make life more awesome.
Gain Badges for completed skill sets and a YL Youth Creative Coach Certificate affirming you are able to teach many quality skills to kids and adults of all ages.
Perfect for
- pandemic and civil war lockdowns
- project days and weeks, school, libraries, fests, camp
- underprivlledged kids
- homeless shelters
- refugee camps
- SDGs
It’s also something one can get paid for. Just sayin’.
To Make School Awesome
We want to make life at school awesome, since this is where you spend every day, where you can unfold your superpowers like nowhere else and influence the future of your entire generation. It’s a #1 priority!
To Make Life Awesome
You have special interests, things you enjoy. We want you to have the best time ever, since when doing good is fun, magic and adventurous, many more people like to join in, which helps you achieve your goals, meet great friends and have even more fun. So, we want to make life awesome.
Adventures for your teams.
Development Project Partnerships
Exciting Milestones
Visit Hero*ines
Youth Exchanges
Meet Genius Changemakers
via video, at school, camp, events … to learn from, Q&A, tell your stories, celebrate your achievements,
plan what’s next, team up! Think about it – this is a world premiere in human history.
YL Coaches
Young Hero*ines
Grand Changemakers
Magical Coaches
Huge Projects & Campaigns
Implement genius changemakers’ solutions in your local region.
Stop Street Harassment
1 million girls Self-Defense
Edible Landscapes
Restore Ecosystems
Positive News Magazine
LearnSpace in Town
National Youth Leadership Learning Centre
100% Fair Fashion
+ Your Ideas
built on the foundation of trust, experience, impact, allies and community.
We back you with
Coaching
Allies
Partners
Platforms
Grow into our global Tribe
as you get to know partners, coaches, staff, youth and adult teams.
You have Years ahead of You
so take it easy, laugh and enjoy the journey.
Our Staff and Hero*ines are living this as adults.
Why would you stop living dreams once you graduate?
The idea is to open this up for you FOR LIFE.
YOUR BENEFITS
Further, we provide quite extraordinary benefits. You may not consider those a priority, but they can help make life easier with adults, like parents or teachers, and in your not very distant future as a young adult, on your professional path. Developing skills, relations and tools to open doors and paths in life make changemaking even more fun.
A personal message
We hope that you enjoy what we are creating for you and all young people on Earth. We are with you. We create for the kids and commit #fulltimeforfuture to Life on Earth.
It’s not evident. No one else does it. No one told us to do this. We do it because we care for Life on Earth. We do it because we know of 1,000s of genius solutions and the honorable people leading them. We do it because we want to empower those who wish to protect Life on Earth and continue living Good Dreams to have all the means to do so. The VERY BEST that humanity has for them. Because we have a planet to save.
If you appreciate our spirit and what we do and wish to see us strong, to be more awesome, faster, reach further, here is how YOU can help us.