Global Citizen Year is launching a generation of leaders with the perspectives, skills, and networks to solve humanity’s most urgent challenges. Each year we recruit a diverse corps of talented young people from across the globe. Using the formative transition into adulthood, we help them shape their values, identity, and purpose in ways that classroom learning alone cannot. Through our virtual Academy and immersive Fellowship, we combine curriculum, coaching, and lived experience to help our students develop the REAL power skills of the 21st century: resilience, empathy, agency, and leadership. Ultimately — in partnership with colleges, companies, and communities — we are unleashing a critical mass to build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world.

Since 2010, Global Citizen Year has developed the blueprint for a transformative new path between adolescence and adulthood. The Heartland Scholarship Initiative is critical to Global Citizen Year’s mission to ensure students from the U.S. Heartland have access and exposure to global thinking–a critical component towards building a more equitable world.