The Global Co Lab Network
Thank you to our donors
Thank you to our financial supporters including the Longview Foundation and the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia as well as our many individual donors. We hosted a lovely thank you reception June 10th for our donors at the Watergate! See our presentation below!
Co Lab Teens lead Hybrid Unconference on Climate Change!
The Co Lab hosted a hybrid event Sunday June 7 in Arlington VA where teens from the region networked with adult stakeholders to explore intersectional issues on climate with food security, health, overconsumption, and education. Thank you to the Community Foundation of Northern Virginia for supporting this event.
Excited to share our 10-year Impact Report!
We hope you enjoy this ten year retrospective of our work empowering teens and helping amplify their important voices through projects that underscore the importance of building a world where equality, peace, prosperity and sustainable development are the norms that govern how we engage globally. We look forward to continuing this important work and thank you for your support!
We are a global collaborative of teen changemakers who believe all of us can do something to change the climate before it changes us.
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Watch our new promo video and documentary
The Global Co Lab Network (Co-Lab) is proud to produce Youth Voices on the UN Goals: Changing the World Together, a 20-minute educational documentary by teens for teens. The film is focused on empowering the next generation of global change- makers with a focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
About
The Global Co Lab Network or "Co Lab" empowers teens globally to be changemakers, utilizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a handy framework. Any teen can learn about the SDGs and then submit their suggestions for addressing these goals with a short video in our annual global video challenge, Teens Dream, now in its 12th year. We host weekly virtual teen-led gatherings, SDG Hubs, addressing equality, climate change, mental health, quality education, hunger, plastic pollution, Turkish teens for peace education, artists for the SDGs, and a Hub for young women in Afghanistan. The Co Lab takes a teen delegation yearly to the United Nation's High Level Political Forum in New York City to advocate on the SDGs. See here for a short overview of our work. The Co Lab is very grateful to the Longview Foundation for its support in 2024-2026 in expanding our network of teens.
Initiatives
AnnualCelebrations
We announce our video winners in our Spring Celebration and recognize their work in our virtual Fall Celebration!
OurDocumentaries
The Co Lab produces documentaries to inspire the next generation of change-makers! See Youth Voices on the UN Goals – a 20 min educational docu-drama created by teens for teens at link below and also A Peace of Science, under initiatives.
We Amplify Teens Voices Globally
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If you are interested in becoming a partner, please tell us about your organization and collaboration ideas to staff@globalcolab.net
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The Co Lab makes considerable impact with minimal staff and depends considerably on donations. Please contribute to support our work!
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If you have a question, suggestion, or want to join us as a teen, a mentor, a partner, a volunteer, please get in touch!