Project Y takes shape

Project Y is a group of 20 amazing young people coming together with one mission.

The mission: TO DO

One question keeps popping up time and time again-to do what? Well that is just it TO DO anything. This group of 20 young people are all Gen Y folk looking to make a difference in their communities and in fact most of them already are. So the idea behind this project is that hopefully a group of amazing people can support each other and any of the work we decide to take on can be shared.

Project Y started for 2 reasons. The first reason came from me attending a Millennium Scholarship event where I met up with the president and while we were talking he stated, "oh you're one of those." I was a bit bewildered and said "one of what?" The gentleman pointed to my shirt and said "a TD guy, a TD scholar I presume." This made me wonder why there would ever be a separation between all of these amazing people. So Project Y was conceived-bring all of those amazing people together. The second reason I thought Project Y might be a good idea is because of burnout. Yes, burnout, because my thought was that as people volunteer they usually do so as an individual and they do so at many different places often wearing themselves thin. Wouldn't it make sense then that if a volunteer had a group of people to work with and support them that burnout might not be as prominent and in fact I believe that the group atmosphere would do the opposite in energizing people.

Project Y in my mind was becoming clearer and clearer then I had the chance to meet Alicia Dobson and ride in a car with her for over 8 hours-the plan came together. Alicia is a Millennium scholarship winner and she w as thinking along the same lines as me. So staying true to the Project Y mission statement: TO DO, it only took us one 8 hour car ride to figure out this idea had to happen. In only a few days Alicia had reached out to her network and I reached out to my network finding, TD scholars, Millennium scholars, and so many other AMAZING people who have travelled and done some amazing things around the world.

In a couple of days I will make sure and give you the update of how amazing the first meeting went and how Project Y has already become more then I could have dreamed about.