Mentorship & expertise
Offer practical guidance, skills sessions, career conversations, or access to a wider professional community.
Partnerships with purpose
We work with people and organizations who believe young people should shape the opportunities designed for them.
Work alongside ADN
Partnerships help connect youth-led ideas with mentors, spaces, expertise, resources, and opportunities. ADN welcomes conversations with schools, universities, nonprofits, community groups, businesses, and individual practitioners.
We start with listening and a clear shared outcome. Collaboration should be useful to the community, respectful of young people's time and agency, and grounded in transparent expectations.
Start a conversationWays to collaborate
Partnerships can start small and grow as trust, learning, and shared value develop.
Offer practical guidance, skills sessions, career conversations, or access to a wider professional community.
Open access to learning spaces, equipment, events, internships, showcases, or community activities.
Develop a pilot together around a clear community need, with young people involved in design and delivery.
Current initiative themes
These are active areas of interest for the network and a starting point for partner conversations.
Link student clubs with community organizations and local projects.
Make practical technology and online safety learning more accessible.
Support participation, wellbeing, and belonging through movement.
Connect young creators with ethical storytelling and mentorship.
Our collaboration model
A straightforward process helps make expectations visible from the beginning.
Share priorities, learn about local context, and agree on the need you want to address.
Set a practical scope, name roles, and involve the young people affected by the work.
Review what happened, share credit, and decide together what should happen next.
Tell us what your organization hopes to contribute.