Our Work:
Cultivating Leaders
Our Programs
Washington World Fellows
The Washington World Fellowships are 2.5-year programs that cultivate global leadership and future success in young Washingtonians by providing access to unique academic, cultural, and leadership opportunities in both domestic and international settings. Open to current sophomores only.
Since 2022, Washington World Fellows program participants and alumni have earned over $1.1 million dollars in grants and scholarships!
Learn more at waworldfellows.org.
Compassion Scholars
Compassion Scholars pairs young scholars with mentors that are models of compassionate leadership. Throughout the course of the programming, participants learn about global issues and then travel internationally to participate in service learning projects related to those issues.
Upon returning, scholars work with their mentors to implement a service project in their own communities based on the characteristics of compassionate leadership learned through the service learning projects they completed during their travels.
Learn more at compassionscholars.org.
Boundless Washington
Boundless Washington is a statewide program that integrates fun, challenging outdoor activities with leadership development training for young people with disabilities in Washington state. The program aims to facilitate opportunities for young people with physical and sensory disabilities to enjoy and experience the outdoors, and to inspire them to become leaders in their communities through integrated leadership development training.
Learn more at boundlesswa.org.
Team S.A.M
Team S.A.M (Sports. And. Mentoring) is a sports mentoring program administered by the Washington State Leadership Board, designed to enable eligible nonprofit community-based organizations to provide opportunities through grant-based funding for underserved youth to join local sports teams or otherwise participate in the area of sports.
Learn more at teamsam.org.
Each of our programs is grounded in our Leadership Curriculum, designed to foster growth and development. For more information about our in-house developed curriculum, please visit our Leadership Curriculum webpage.
In 2022, the Washington state per capita personal income was $75,332. 80.4% of the students served by WSLB live in counties who's median income falls at or below that average.