Causes: Children & Youth, Education, Leadership Development, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Challenge and Empower the NextGeneration to Create Lives of Authenticity, Abundance and Altruism. The NextGen Academy was created to inspire and develop a new generation of leaders - leaders that could not only affect progressive change throughout their respective communities, but who also embodied the principles of compassion, altruism, and love. Through a rigorous training curriculum and leading autonomous projects, our participants develop the skills and capabilities to design, develop and implement their own unique contributions to the betterment of society. Our unique training empowers youth to not only have a vision, but also guides them through working with a team to make that vision happen, all while having fun doing it. Everything we do has two guiding principles. The first is the impact to the communities we serve. NGA serves both domestically and abroad by creating a sustainable difference though education programs, community projects and partnerships with local businesses. The second is the impact to our participants. Can you imagine spending months planning, fundraising and dreaming of your own volunteer project in Rwanda? At 19? As part of the full-year program, participants are trained in all the required skills to fully design, fund, and implement their own service projects and educational programs. Teams are then sent across the globe to implement the very projects they designed. Impassioned with a desire to serve others, many of our alumni continue beyond the program to create sustainable impact in communities and pursue improvements in health, social empowerment and education.
Programs: From september 2013 until august 2014, nextgen academy (nga) accepted 28 new participants in the full year leadership training program. We also had 16 volunteer interns who help run the program. Through over 80 days of education and approximately 100 days of service work and fundraising training, participants learn to lead their lives and offer real-world benefit to thousands that they serve, both locally and internationally. Nga accomplishments:momentum trainingthe momentum training series is an anti-bullying program that our participants lead in high schools and middle schools in california. The workshops include hands-on, participatory exercises that gives students a chance to practice leadership skills, develop self-awareness, self-confidence, compassion for others, and team building in an open, free atmosphere with their peers. In feb/march, 5 teams (of 4 or 5 each) brought this transformational program to over 30 us high schools, reaching over 4000 students and teachers. Service projects in africa:in feb/march, 8 teams of (3 or 4 each) traveled to 4 developing countries in africa (south africa, botswana, malawi and zambia) to develop projects and to and continue previously established projects. Along with teaching character education programs in in each of these nations to dozens of schools and communities, serving over 10,000 students, our teams built projects in: botswana - finished construction of a daycare, as well as built a chicken coop and organic garden to support the spring of life foundation. Malawi - finished building one room of a school/community hall and established a system for a more economical cooking stove for rural areas. South africa - helped establish and build a daycare in impoverished soweto. Established a library in a rural village school - building shelves and stocking with books zambia - established a character education club at a lusaka high school. Funded and constructed/repaired a private high school and established an nga club for character buildinga profound impact of our overseas service work is on the participants themselves. Several have chosen to return to africa or to serve in other developing nations after their experience and most have a heightened sense of gratitude for their conditions and living standard here in the us. Our 2nd year interns also served for 3 weeks to philippines to offer their help in rebuilding areas hit by flooding and the typhoon haiyan. Summer challenge:the full year participants are given the task to create a one-month program that is representative of their full year experience and to offer it to 16-19 year old students. Each participant was challenged to take ownership of their lives, practice being a leader, encouraged to solve issues at home, investigate their goals for their life and are given tools to develop them. This year, the 28 team members signed up 21 summer challenge participants who embarked on a road-trip adventure along the west coast of the us. They participated in various personal development workshops, service projects, and fundraising campaigns. Nextgen trainingsover 130 people attended ignite, our one-week high-impact experiential camps held three times in the summer. Through ignite, participants challenge their fears and build confidence through an exploration of their personal objectives and the obstacles in their way. Previous participants and nga alumni eagerly returned as volunteer leaders to help others experience this.
Mission: Challenge and Empower the NextGeneration to Create Lives of Authenticity, Abundance and Altruism. The NextGen Academy was created to inspire and develop a new generation of leaders - leaders that could not only affect progressive change throughout their respective communities, but who also embodied the principles of compassion, altruism, and love. Through a rigorous training curriculum and leading autonomous projects, our participants develop the skills and capabilities to design, develop and implement their own unique contributions to the betterment of society. Our unique training empowers youth to not only have a vision, but also guides them through working with a team to make that vision happen, all while having fun doing it. Everything we do has two guiding principles. The first is the impact to the communities we serve. NGA serves both domestically and abroad by creating a sustainable difference though education programs, community projects and partnerships with local businesses. The second is the impact to our participants. Can you imagine spending months planning, fundraising and dreaming of your own volunteer project in Rwanda? At 19? As part of the full-year program, participants are trained in all the required skills to fully design, fund, and implement their own service projects and educational programs. Teams are then sent across the globe to implement the very projects they designed. Impassioned with a desire to serve others, many of our alumni continue beyond the program to create sustainable impact in communities and pursue improvements in health, social empowerment and education.
Programs: From september 2013 until august 2014, nextgen academy (nga) accepted 28 new participants in the full year leadership training program. We also had 16 volunteer interns who help run the program. Through over 80 days of education and approximately 100 days of service work and fundraising training, participants learn to lead their lives and offer real-world benefit to thousands that they serve, both locally and internationally. Nga accomplishments:momentum trainingthe momentum training series is an anti-bullying program that our participants lead in high schools and middle schools in california. The workshops include hands-on, participatory exercises that gives students a chance to practice leadership skills, develop self-awareness, self-confidence, compassion for others, and team building in an open, free atmosphere with their peers. In feb/march, 5 teams (of 4 or 5 each) brought this transformational program to over 30 us high schools, reaching over 4000 students and teachers. Service projects in africa:in feb/march, 8 teams of (3 or 4 each) traveled to 4 developing countries in africa (south africa, botswana, malawi and zambia) to develop projects and to and continue previously established projects. Along with teaching character education programs in in each of these nations to dozens of schools and communities, serving over 10,000 students, our teams built projects in: botswana - finished construction of a daycare, as well as built a chicken coop and organic garden to support the spring of life foundation. Malawi - finished building one room of a school/community hall and established a system for a more economical cooking stove for rural areas. South africa - helped establish and build a daycare in impoverished soweto. Established a library in a rural village school - building shelves and stocking with books zambia - established a character education club at a lusaka high school. Funded and constructed/repaired a private high school and established an nga club for character buildinga profound impact of our overseas service work is on the participants themselves. Several have chosen to return to africa or to serve in other developing nations after their experience and most have a heightened sense of gratitude for their conditions and living standard here in the us. Our 2nd year interns also served for 3 weeks to philippines to offer their help in rebuilding areas hit by flooding and the typhoon haiyan. Summer challenge:the full year participants are given the task to create a one-month program that is representative of their full year experience and to offer it to 16-19 year old students. Each participant was challenged to take ownership of their lives, practice being a leader, encouraged to solve issues at home, investigate their goals for their life and are given tools to develop them. This year, the 28 team members signed up 21 summer challenge participants who embarked on a road-trip adventure along the west coast of the us. They participated in various personal development workshops, service projects, and fundraising campaigns. Nextgen trainingsover 130 people attended ignite, our one-week high-impact experiential camps held three times in the summer. Through ignite, participants challenge their fears and build confidence through an exploration of their personal objectives and the obstacles in their way. Previous participants and nga alumni eagerly returned as volunteer leaders to help others experience this.
1037 Ne 65TH St No 116, Seattle, WA 98115
206-350-1345
Children & Youth
Seattle
