Over the past several months, we have built a number of exciting institutional partnerships that will help us to serve our local Connecticut community while simultaneously creating resources and pilot models that we will be able replicate on a national scale in the future
Focus: High School Students
In partnership with The Connecticut Forum, The Purpose Project is developing the curriculum for a program to inspire and equip high school students to become effective agents of social change within their communities.
This initiative will provide local high-school participants of the YOUTH Forum opportunities to explore social issues, interact with and learn from local social changemakers, and come up with ideas for their own social ventures. Based on the results of and lessons learned during this Hartford-based pilot model, The Purpose Project will develop resources and materials that can be used by similar programs, schools and youth groups from across the country.
In this pilot program, our goal is to engage metro-Hartford high school students in constructive conversations about social change and its relevance to their lives, such that they will be inspired and equipped to become involved. We have designed opportunities for participants to interact with both their peers and experienced social leaders so that they can explore the social issues present in their communities and find ways to help to address them.
These discussions will allow students to share their concerns about what is happening in the world around them, and to understand the diverse viewpoints of others from within their communities and from across the state. Interactions with seasoned local social leaders will provide participants with examples of how to transform inspiration into action, and insight into the lessons that they have learned over the course of their careers. Resources and coaching will help participants take action and evaluate the impact that they are having on their communities.
Focus: University Students
Beginning this fall, we will be partnering with the University of Connecticut’s Nonprofit Leadership Program to develop curriculum materials for university-aged students planning careers in the non-profit sector, and support services for Executive Directors of local non-profit organizations.
The UConn Non-Profit Leadership Program is an exciting, new initiative whose mission is to support the non-profit sector in Connecticut, and across the United States. We will work to bring an intergenerational dimension to the program’s various initiatives, and to develop materials and resources that will facilitate dialogue between emerging and accomplished leaders.
Focus: Young Professionals
We are leading the development of a new model for intergenerational dialogue about social change within the greater-Hartford area together with one of this year’s QUEST teams from Leadership Greater Hartford. QUEST is a year-long leadership development program for Hartford professionals designed to help them create positive change within the community.
The Purpose Project QUEST taskforce is working with us to develop a program to initiate dialogue between different generations of social leaders in the metro-Hartford area: those who have spent their lives creating social change, and those who are now emerging and will be responsible for continuing to lead us forward. The model used to create dialogue between these two groups will be co-developed with the QUEST team over the next few months, and we will launch the program together later this year. Stay tuned for updates and more information!
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