Our Approach
YouthBuild centers positive youth development and youth voice as we lead a global movement to generate a force of values-driven young leaders and steer policy change to create a world that works for millions of opportunity youth.
YouthBuild centers positive youth development and youth voice as we lead a global movement to generate a force of values-driven young leaders and steer policy change to create a world that works for millions of opportunity youth.
As headquarters for the YouthBuild movement, YouthBuild Global unifies and partners with an expansive network of YouthBuild programs around the world. From training, technical assistance, capacity building, and innovative program enhancements to leadership development, sustainability, and advocacy, YouthBuild Global serves as a convener, collaborator, and catalyst for the entire YouthBuild movement.
Our work at YouthBuild Global is fully informed by our programs, whose on-the-ground knowledge of serving opportunity youth—and whose feedback about their needs—drives our work.
We bring local programs together to collaborate, learn from each other, create, support, and grow professionally and personally to advance YouthBuild’s mission.
We guide and advance network vision, strategy, and operations in partnership with elected leadership and affiliates to fulfill YouthBuild’s mission.
We generate, leverage, and scale partnerships, learnings, resources, and funding to empower programs to achieve YouthBuild’s mission.
We advocate for YouthBuild and opportunity youth, center youth voice, champion our model, and elevate the collective impact of our network to attract diverse support to sustain YouthBuild’s mission.
YouthBuild Global partners with coalitions to advocate for effective pathways for opportunity youth into apprenticeship, entrepreneurship, and higher education that lead to sustaining careers. Together, we strengthen the effectiveness of systems that impact the lives of opportunity youth, including public education, criminal justice, workforce development, and service networks.
Our network of YouthBuild programs serves as a beacon, a resource, and an example of how to create a world that works for more opportunity youth. It offers energy and ideas to a global movement that drives change far outside the physical walls of programs that come together to deliver the YouthBuild model.