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WE INCREASE THE POWER OF YOUTH, TEACHERS AND CITIZENS
to build a world of peace and abundance for all.
The good world we all wish to see is already happening! All we need to do is take what works and take it to global scale. The magical missing piece is YOU! We equip you with solutions, tools, tricks, quests and live support of epic changemakers to evoke massive changes like them. Hi5!
RACHEL PARENT, founder Kids Right To Know, YL Honour Warrior, Dragonslayer, We Day, Uplift, TEDx Speaker, Toronto’s Environmental Hero, Canada’s Top 20 Under 20
THE SOLUTIONS FOR PEACE AND ABUNDANCE FOR ALL EXIST
They are implemented by thousands of young and adult changemakers, ordinary people like you and me who just set their mind to it. They are showered with awards, celebrated in media, respected as role models and have made creating a good world part of life at more than 10,000 schools with many benefits. It is on each of us to choose to create this bright new world around us and everywhere.
We are determined to manifest this vision at record pace! We have pioneered wildly successful campaigns, and provide everybody with the tools, the tricks, the community and support that hero/ines use and need. It enriches life with purpose, fun, adventure, surprise and opportunity. So Get Involved!
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UPGRADE LEARNING CULTURE & DAILY LIFE AT SCHOOL
ENJOY GLOBAL COMMUNITY & COLLABORATION
TAKE ACTION, MAKE HEADLINES, MOBILIZE YOUR CITY
AND EXPERIENCE MAGIC!
Is this awesome, or what? Youth are living this! You do not have to do all of it. But we know you’ll want to as you evolve your skills, experience and the world asks you to present, speak on tv, inspire others and mentor younger peers. Wait, the best thing is : YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
CLICK HERE TO SEE WHO IS WITH US! Attention: You'll be floored
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WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US IN ACTION!
SIMPLE START
Inspiring people has never been this easy.
SIMPLE ACTIONS
Take straight action on favorite causes, using genius tools and methods.
SIMPLY HAPPY
We have designed YL for you.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Across age groups, cultures and regions of the world, students, teachers and citizens agree:
WELCOME TO THE TRIBE!
TAKE THE DISCOVERY TOUR. It is a spectacular immersion in the phenomenon of youth leadership, our approach and offers. This powerful experience creates solid hope and vision for humanity and profound understanding how each of us can play a role in upgrading societies, with rich benefits for our own lives.
Let’s get going, as well as dissolve any doubts about your powers. YOUTH-LEADER IS DESIGNED to overcome obstacles with flying banners! So, bust all your boring thoughts in our FAQ, and liberate your mind for unbridled, joyful action!
The energies at work behind youth leadership success stories are simple and evident, yet hardly understood even by practitioners, fans and educators. We highlight them for your better understanding and how to use these Super Powers to the max!
IT’S TIME TO BE AWESOME!
EXPLORE OUR SERVICES
BROWSE LATEST NEWS
MEET OUR TEAM
TUNE YL TO YOUR LIFESTYLE!
The world needs you : browse our tools and tricks, get involved and do what you like. All your actions matter!
Follow us online, discover our world on-the-go, get involved following your passion and intuition!
THE BASICS: After getting to know your tools and the fascinating world of changemaking by immersing yourself in The Discovery Tour,
- impulses for sharing
- ideas for activities
will naturally appear. For best impact, fun, satisfaction and media presence
- start with actions for YL Hero/ines
- dig our Action Kits for tipps
Whatever you do is adding to positive change. Hence,
- follow your curiosity, your passion, have fun and experiment!
As you act, follow and interact with our community on social media,
- you develop knowledge and ideas
- gain friends and relations
- and grow your team
YAY! Welcome to the Tribe!
Amplify your impact with our tools, media and solutions for individual actions AND
- use our methods and “live” services to amplify presence in class, school and community, grow a local tribe and movements, conquer the media, reach throughout the city and advance learning culture
The fundamental step is to establish visual omni-presence in public (class, school, …)
- to inspire large numbers of people
- involve them in actions
- empower them to launch actions, also
- as part of your local changemaker community
The steps are simple:
- found a team
- preferably a student club – see The Super Powers of Young People At School
- establish a stand / YL Team HQ Headquarter in school
- use media and lots of actions in combination
- thereby make changemaking part of daily life
- follow and interact with our social media
- share your actions and impact with us
and use methods to connect with
- UNITED NATIONS Days
- local media and organizations
- teachers to weave The YL Curriculum into units and subjects
- donors, funders and investors in youth
It happens naturally as you grow your presence, impact and recognition.
- SO FAR, youth activists lacked the wide spectrum of media, methods, live services and strategy tipps
- NOW, you have it all in one place to
- LEARN ON-THE-GO by taking actions, following our social media and joining Skype conferences
View a summary of your new opportunities in
- The Discovery Tour
- this table
Make changemaking your full-time sport : join our leadership program CHANGE GENERATION RISING and live life as the reality adventure game it really is:
- YL Warriors commit to
- 3 Missions per month:
- 1 fundraiser
- 1 lifestyle challenge / social experiment
- 1 project (support or replication of a YL Hero/ine’s initiative)
This is huge. It literally means
- growing up taking action with the grand changemakers of our time
- implementing humanity’s finest sustainability solutions
- meeting live online, onsite and on field visits during summer holidays
YL WARRIORS
- live an unprecedented adventure
- develop uniquely comprehensive knowledge and skills
- become local hero/ines in no time
- develop an richly illustrated CV of awesome
- certainly won’t have to worry about getting a “job”
CG RISING is designed as an adventure reality game
- being a warrior, rediscovering oneself
- founding a clan, with a name worthy of Hogwarts
- aiming at completing 3 Missions / Month
- ascending levels, gaining credits and honors for impacts and headlines made
Honestly, the vision of CG RISING is what makes our day, since
- when overdrive YL Warrior Clans exist at every school on Earth
- we know that our planet and future will be FINE
- (if not, … not so much) you get it?
- This is THE learning program for the new species of co-creators, inhabitants and stewards of a global, peaceful, just, thriving and sustainable civilization
and finally, ‘working for positive change day in day out’
- we might as well quit the world of doom and gloom for good
- acknowledge life as the reality adventure game it truly is
- and live our finest hero self to the fullest!
- with loads of fun, magic and actually higher impact!
BENEFITS FOR STUDENT CLUBS & TEACHERS
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YOUR PERSONAL BENEFITS
Each activity that we propose offers you quick and powerful benefits
- {1} Taking the Immersion (The Discovery Tour): get inspired; improve your worldview; get valuable stories for sharing, access to tools, know-how and support
- {2} Sharing Information: experience feedback from stakeholders like public libraries, schools, civil society organizations and administration; get to better know your community
- {3} Giving Presentations: a sense of adventure; the joy of giving; rich benefits for many youth and adults, including student leaders and teachers, entrepreneurs and journalists, who have long-term influence and friends
- {4} Organizing Actions: an exciting project aligned with your values; a conversation starter; insights at what works and doesn’t work in society; a taste of what youth activists experience; achievement, impact, feedback and satisfaction; feedback from young hero/ines
Would you like to add structure, a sense of challenge, a little push to keep focussed and to experience what it’s like to be a young activists or part of our student club community? >> Take a Test Month!
JOIN SOCIAL MEDIA
- stay inspired, learn on the go
- get latest news and downloads
- follow our adventures
- interact and share
- contribute as you please
JOIN THE ACTION TEAMS!
- Youth Teams – take tons of actions
- YL Warriors – take weekly actions with hero/ines
- Teachers – use media, skype, projects, partners
- Citizen Volunteers – spread infos, network locally
- Online Volunteers – write, translate, promote
REGISTER + GET YOUR GIFT
GET YOUR START SET
USE MEDIA, METHODS, SERVICES
to inspire peers and parents, establish youth leadership at school, to amplify presence and impact, for learning, training and organizing a year-round stream of action for their favorite causes – at home and abroad.
USE OUR MEDIA AND LIVE SERVICES
as Add-On’s to units and subjects across the curriculum, involve student clubs, establish international project partnerships and use our Methods and philosophy to evolve school and learning culture.
SPREAD THE GOOD NEWS
Citizen Volunteers distribute flyers and media packs to teachers and public libraries, connect with local partners, found Local Chapters, support YL Youth Teams and also organize their favorite activities. Online Volunteers translate, write, manage social media and promote YL in their spheres of influence.
MEDIA
Get inspired and inspire with stories of amazing hero/ines of our time. Use diverse formats for various uses and user groups in 18 languages. Combine with instant actions. Show me
METHODS
Upgrade learning culture on-the-go and involve your community in world-changing action. Show me
TOOLS WE USE – A LOT!
THERE IS AN INCREDIBLE LOT MORE HAPPENING AT YL
Browse our website | Take the Tour | Read the News| Subscribe to the Magazine | Join our social media channels Most important : Take Your Dreams for Good, Unleash Your Passion and Get Involved
“Youth-Leader is the single most important thing for our generation. We need this in all schools.“ Emma Mogus, Books With No Bounds, World’s Children’s Prize Ambassador
“Thank you for helping me realize my dream of bringing the light of education to poor children.” Babar Ali, Anand Siksha Niketan, Rotary World Literacy Hero
“Help us help youth solve global issues and create a good future.” Avalon Theisen, Conserve It Forward, Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes
FUND OUR TEAM
Sustain our operations, development, training, presentations & more
FINANCE YL MEDIA PACKS
for Schools, Public Libraries and Youth Workers in your city and beyond
INVEST IN OUR FIELD PARTNERS
Amazing young hero/ines with scalable solutions for people and planet
FUND SPECIAL EVENTS
like our United Nations Webcast, youth jams and YL contribution to precious events
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND INFORMATION. According to Article 19 of the UNITED NATIONS’ (of which your state is a member!) Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EUROPEAN UNION, “Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.“ We take the liberty of exercising this right for the good of people and planet, in alignment with up to date ethical and moral values, sacred principles, sustainability, media and education sciences. AMEN AWEN