Calling All Creative Changemakers

Rural Youth Leaders is a new collaborative initiative rooted in place, culture, and the transformative power of youth leadership.

Launched by Partners for Rural Impact and Clear Creek Creative, and shaped in partnership with Liberation in a Generation and Native Americans in Philanthropy, Rural Youth Leaders (RYL) is designed to uplift and invest in the leadership of creative young people and the cultural stewards who support them in rural communities.

Rural Youth Leaders is launching two groundbreaking programs this year:

Youth Fellowship for emerging leaders aged 18-24 who are:

1. engaged in creative arts and cultural traditions

2. invested in supporting & strengthening their rural places

3. committed to their own success & the success of their communities

4. capable and willing to lead in the rural place they call home.

Stewards Network for the people who steward and support creative young leaders in their local communities including educators, artists, culture bearers, creative practitioners, and any other youth advocate who uses creative practices and/or cultural traditions to support rural young people of any age.