The NGC Approach

Our Mission

To educate, equip, and mobilize young people to help solve the greatest challenges faced by communities around the world.

Our Vision

To create a more just, equitable, and sustainable world by building a movement of young people who take action to help solve the largest challenges faced by communities around the world.

Core Values

• Youth Driven: We believe in the capacity, energy, and innovation of young people.
• Partnerships: We leverage partnerships to accomplish results.
• Community: We trust in grassroots, locally led solutions.
• Diversity: We value the power of uniting diverse perspectives, experiences, and people.
• Integrity: We operate in an honest, socially conscious, and ethical manner.
  

Our mission, vision, and core values directly inform both why and how we engage youth in sustainable global change.

The NGC Team Experience

New Global Citizens believes that young people are uniquely poised to tackle our most pressing global issues.  Students in our program learn about NGC and lead the formation of their team on high school campuses across the U.S.

Teams specifically focus on the challenges addressed in the 8 UN Millennium Development Goals (extreme poverty, universal primary education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, HIV/AIDS and other diseases, environmental sustainability, and sustainable local economies) and 2 additional challenges of great importance (natural disasters and armed conflict).

These 10 challenges provide a framework for taking action as each team selects an NGC Global Project to raise awareness and resources for within their community. Global projects are community organizations located in countries across the globe that have been identified through partnerships with reputable international development organizations.

Global Projects must be grassroots (i.e. community led and driven), sustainable, and of a nature where a small investment of resources makes a tremendous impact on the project community. 

The NGC Team Experience transforms youth possessing an interest in global issues and activism into informed, effective, and empowered life-long advocates of sustainable global change.

Support our efforts.  Join the NGC Team Experience.