AMP Community Update: Sept 2025

Greetings from the AMP Global Youth Team! We hope your new year is off to a great start. After an incredible summer of Global Scholar workshops, our student leaders are already hard at work creating exciting opportunities for youth changemakers — and their allies — in 2025. In this update, you’ll find:

• The latest State of Global Youth Report
• New volunteer opportunities, for youth leaders, adult allies, and alums
• How to launch an AMP Club at your school
• A fresh editorial from our student issue leads

Thank you for reading—and for sharing with your networks!

1. How Do We Build Trust? Announcing the 2025 State of Global Youth Report
The 2025 State of Global Youth Report is live, and focuses on the timely theme of Trust and how we can rebuild and strengthen our broader social fabric. Led by our student researchers in the US, Brazil, Syria, Russia and beyond, the Report is an important opportunity to highlight youth opinions, as well as youth-driven research. We need your help! Here’s how:

1. Youth leaders and adult allies: Please take a few moments to share your thoughts on Trust via the State of Global Youth Report survey here.
2. Please share the survey with your networks, too! Here’s a blurb you can use: Join me to share your thoughts on how we can restore and build trust in our communities via the State of Global Youth Report here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8TN3F8Y
3. Please reach out if you’re interested in being on the research team, and/or launching a version of this Report in your school or community. We love working with others. Contact us at Opportunities@AMPGlobalYouth.org

2. Leadership and Volunteer Opportunities for Youth and Adult Allies

We are growing fast, and there are so many ways to get involved. Scroll down for information on starting an AMP Club, applying for our student leadership team, providing strategic support, and more. Come join us! Share your interest here.

• Become a leader in your school or community by launching an AMP Global Youth Club! We’ll provide the support, training, meeting ideas, and resources you need—plus connections to our worldwide youth network. You’ll bring the energy, spark important conversations, and help build stronger connections where you live. Together we’ll amplify youth leadership around our greatest global challenges. Sign up today to learn more! (Teachers are welcome to sign up too!) Share your interest here.
• Join the AMP 2025-6 Student Leadership Team. Youth lead all of our school year programming, including the State of Global Youth Report, Clubs, Power Up Conference, issue analysis, social media, and more. Positions are virtual, and require about 5 hours/month total. Share your interest here.
• Volunteer to offer strategic support to the AMP community. We are always bursting at the seams, with interest in our programs skyrocketing each year. We urgently need support with essential tasks like fundraising, promotion, partnership development, communications, and more. Sign up here if you’re interested in learning more, and we’ll be in touch. Share your interest here.

3. AMP Global Scholar / Youth Alumni: Share your wisdom via our new Alumni Master Classes Series:
Our student-led Alumni Team is launching a new series of Alumni Master Classes, during which AMP alumni share skills and experiences with other alums. We are looking for people to host 1-hour seminars on topics like Writing a Standout Application Essay, Women in Politics, Time Management, Sustainability, and more! This is a great opportunity to connect with fellow alumni and inspire the next generation of AMP leaders. Share your interest here.

4. New Editorial from AMP Issues Team: Labubu Dolls, Gen-Z and Overconsumption
In the TikTok generation, a lot of what we do is connected to trends and popular habits we see online. Recently, the newest fever is the Labubu keychain and the Bobbie Goods coloring book. Millions of people around the globe started to go crazy to possess these things that look like simple objects, but that actually represent the human necessity to fit in somewhere. But what is that saying about our society and how we see these viral trends? Read more in a new editorial from AMP Youth Leaders Mariane, Julia and Saadalah on the website here.

Thank you for all you do!