Mentorship & expertise
Offer practical guidance, skills sessions, career conversations, or access to a wider professional community.
Partnerships with purpose
Bring more possibility within reach
We work with people and organizations who believe young people should shape the opportunities designed for them.
Work alongside ADN
Shared purpose makes stronger pathways.
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 conversation
Partnership begins with listening.
Ways to collaborate
Make your contribution count
Partnerships can start small and grow as trust, learning, and shared value develop.
Spaces & opportunities
Open access to learning spaces, equipment, events, internships, showcases, or community activities.
Co-designed initiatives
Develop a pilot together around a clear community need, with young people involved in design and delivery.
Current initiative themes
Where collaboration can begin
These are active areas of interest for the network and a starting point for partner conversations.
Campus connections
Link student clubs with community organizations and local projects.
Digital confidence
Make practical technology and online safety learning more accessible.
Inclusive sport
Support participation, wellbeing, and belonging through movement.
Creative voices
Connect young creators with ethical storytelling and mentorship.
Our collaboration model
Clear, reciprocal, youth-led
A straightforward process helps make expectations visible from the beginning.
Listen & align
Share priorities, learn about local context, and agree on the need you want to address.
Design together
Set a practical scope, name roles, and involve the young people affected by the work.
Learn & sustain
Review what happened, share credit, and decide together what should happen next.
Let’s explore what we can build together.
Tell us what your organization hopes to contribute.