“TO Motivate and enable the youth of Michigan to continuously make a positive impact on their communities through leadership and service.”
our mission.
Radiate “Warm Fuzzies.” Welcome with open hearts and open minds.
- Bring individuals together, cultivating an inclusive, encouraging, and supportive community.
- Create a mindful space where everyone can feel safety and belonging.
- Celebrate uniqueness and embrace diversity, enabling individuals to be themselves.
- Lift each other up, offering encouragement, positivity, confidence, and grace.
- Authentically engage to make time together meaningful, interesting, and fun.
- Act with integrity, honesty, empathy, and kindness.
Build Relationships. Collaborate openly, break silos, and connect as humans.
- Embrace human differences as an opportunity to enrich interactions rather than build barriers.
- Open our minds to different backgrounds, experiences, and world views.
- Engage in constructive dialogue to explore different ideas, opinions, and points of view.
- Listen and learn with heart, showing empathy, humility, and respect.
- Speak our minds constructively and respectfully.
- Seek, accept, and offer constructive and respectful feedback.
Empower Leaders. Enable transformation by taking bold and inspired actions.
- Seek new experiences to expand comfort zones and unlock unrealized leadership potential, for ourselves and for others.
- Advance courageously, building confidence and momentum one step at a time.
- Fail forward, actively use challenges and successes alike as building blocks for our future and as “teachable moments” for all those we inspire.
- Remove obstacles, ask tough questions, and think outside the box to intentionally support leadership development.
- Cultivate teams that are our biggest challengers and our loudest supporters.
- Thirst for knowledge. Continuously pursue and provide opportunities for growth and learning.
Inspire Positive Change. Meaningfully impact our communities through service.
- Spark motivation, excitement, and positive action with our energy, words, and actions.
- Deliver impactful solutions and drive meaningful change for causes bigger than ourselves.
- Think big. Anything is possible when we engage, stay focused, and act in the service of others.
- Stop wondering “wouldn’t it be cool if…” and start taking action to bring ideas to life.
- Challenge the status quo and innovate. Be willing to test, learn, and iterate as we go.
- Have fun and embrace the journey.