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 Nominate a Leader for the YF Awards 🏆
 Nominate a Leader for the YF Awards 🏆
 Nominate a Leader for the YF Awards 🏆
 Nominate a Leader for the YF Awards 🏆
 Nominate a Leader for the YF Awards 🏆
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Making the digital world an easier place to grow up

We fund and scale nonprofit helping young people, families and educators thrive in a tech-filled world.

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READ OUR SUBSTACK

We’ve reached over 868K young people, awarded $3.25 million in nonprofit grants and funded 41 YF Innovators

For more detailed reporting, please read our yearly impact reports.

Introducing the Inaugural Young Futures Awards

Nominate the leaders shaping the future of youth wellbeing

In its inaugural year, the awards will honor 20 young leaders under 30 and 10 champions from older generations who are advancing youth wellbeing. Awardees span tech, research, storytelling, activism and entrepreneurship, will join the Young Futures Community and be celebrated at the YF Block Party in Austin, May 13–14, 2026.

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Nominate a Leader

Youth First. Always.

We’re building an ecosystem of solutions for youth wellbeing

Through our open-call funding challenges, we fund youth-focused nonprofits advancing bold new ideas that ease digital pressures and strengthen youth wellbeing.

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LEARN MORE

Here Comes the Fun

Reimagining play as a pathway to wellbeing.
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Lonely Hearts Club

Beglonging in a hyperconnected world.
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Call Me Maybe

Reimagining phone use in schools by putting students at the center.
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Oops!...AI Did It Again

Empowering teens to navigate a world reshaped by artificial intelligence.
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Under Pressure

Alleviating the pressures pre-teens and teens face in today's tech-driven world.
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Introducing the

YF500 Initiative

$26M Raised

$50M Goal

The YF500 is our five-year commitment to fund and scale 500 nonprofit innovators. Five hundred chances to change the course of youth wellbeing and build a nationwide infrastructure for youth wellbeing.

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LEARN ABOUT THE YF500

Read the Young Futures Substack

Stay up to date on our work, upcoming funding challenges, and what we’re learning about youth wellbeing in a digital world.
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Read the SUbstack

Meet Our Grantees

AKA The YF Innovators
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VIEW YF INNOVATOR DIRECTORY
Co-founder & Executive Director
Jake Stika
NextGen Men
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Assistant Principal
Valerie Tillman-Bankhead
Holmes Consolidated School District
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Executive Director
Dr. Jennifer Chace
The Source School
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Co-Chair
Arielle Geismar
Design It For Us
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Executive Director
Domenico "Dom" Ruggerio
We Are Family
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Chief Executive Officer
Alex LeeNatali
Health Connected
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Co-founder
Anahita Dalmia
Agents of Influence
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Co-founder
Niobe Way
agapi.kids
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Founder & Executive Director
Beth Rosenberg
Tech Unlimited
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Senior Director of Implementation and Partnership
Marcus Bratton
Colorado Education Initiative
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Executive Director
Luke Wall
Only7Seconds
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Chief Operations Officer
Kat Eves
Give Us The Floor
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Co-founder
Alex Owens
Be Loud Studios
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Director of Programs
Kimberly Tsai
Challenge Success
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Founder & CEO
Trisha Prabhu
ReThink Citizens
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Founder & Executive Director
Valerie Grison-Alsop
Give Us The Floor
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Co-founder & CEO
Samin Bhan
Lookupp
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Founder & President
Emily Bell McCormick
The Policy Project
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Co-founder
Anahita Dalmia
Agents of Influence
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Executive Director
Carolyn Gan
California Partners Project
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Chief Executive Officer
Alex LeeNatali
Health Connected
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Chief Operations Officer
Kat Eves
Give Us The Floor
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Education Administrator
Daniel Merin
The School District of Philadelphia - Office of School Climate and Culture
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Executive Director
Domenico "Dom" Ruggerio
We Are Family
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Senior Director of Implementation and Partnership
Marcus Bratton
Colorado Education Initiative
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Assistant Principal
Valerie Tillman-Bankhead
Holmes Consolidated School District
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Founder & Executive Director
Valerie Grison-Alsop
Give Us The Floor
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Co-founder
Diana Turner
Be Loud Studios
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Co-founder & Executive Director
Jake Stika
NextGen Men
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Founder & CEO
Trisha Prabhu
ReThink Citizens
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Research Engineer
Dr. Kathryn Youngblood
Debris Tracker Junior (University of Georgia)
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CEO & Co-Founder
Josh Thompson
Civics Unplugged
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Founder & Executive Director
Beth Rosenberg
Tech Unlimited
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Executive Director
Dr. Jennifer Chace
The Source School
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Founder
Tony Weaver
Weird Enough Productions
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Director of Development
Abby Binder
Civics Unplugged
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FUNDERS and PARTNERS

Invest Together in the Future of Young People

Join leading funders partnering with Young Futures to scale proven solutions nationwide.

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More About Young Futures

About Us

We’re on a mission to make the digital world an easier place to grow up.

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The YF500

Funding and scaling a community of 500 innovators across the nation.

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Our Impact

Investing in leaders and solutions to shift youth wellbeing.

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Young Futures is dedicated to providing the resources to build a better future for the next generation, one where every young person feels a sense of belonging and has the agency to shape their own path.

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