We All Lead
Scholars Program
Imagine 100,000 college students — connected to service, climate action, and cross-sector wisdom — emerging as a generation of ecological leaders. Not elite and selective. Scaled and accessible. Rooted in Southern California. Growing everywhere.
Imagine what that generation might mean for our collective wellbeing and ecological belonging. For humanity. For the planet.
A movement, not a program
The We All Lead Scholars Program is HVC's most ambitious vision: a scaled, accessible ecological leadership experience for college students — not modeled on elite, selective fellowships, but on the belief that every student carries the capacity to lead regenerative change.
We are raising funds to build something that has never existed at this scale: a scholars program that connects 100,000 college students to service corps, climate corps, and cross-sector learning — locally, nationally, and internationally — while grounding them in the inner resources to sustain meaningful work.
We are growing out of Southern California, where HVC has spent five years building the relationships, the curriculum, and the proof of concept. Now we are ready to grow — and we need funding and partners to make it real.
"Mental health is not just a clinical issue. It's also a community issue. It's a cultural issue. It's a leadership issue."
— Dr. Laura M. Burgis, Executive Director, HVC
Not elite. Not selective. Scaled.
The Obama Fellowship, the Rhodes Scholarship, the Fulbright — these are extraordinary programs for a small number of extraordinary people. We believe in something different: that the ecological and social challenges of our time require not a few exceptional leaders, but a generation of them.
The We All Lead Scholars Program is designed to be as high-caliber in its depth of learning and connection as any elite fellowship — and as wide in its reach as a movement. Every student who walks through this program carries the wisdom of their community, their lived experience, and their ecological belonging. That is the curriculum.
What scholars will learn, do, and become
Ecological Leadership
Students learn to lead not through hierarchy and extraction, but through relationship, reciprocity, and regeneration — drawing on how living ecosystems sustain themselves. Traditional ecological knowledge is honored alongside contemporary systems thinking.
Cross-Sector Learning
Scholars engage with practitioners across industries — climate science, public health, civic design, the arts, Indigenous knowledge systems, entrepreneurship, and policy — to develop an interdisciplinary, evolutionary understanding of how systems change.
Service & Climate Corps
Scholars are connected to local, national, and international service opportunities — including climate corps, community health initiatives, and civic innovation projects — putting ecological leadership into practice from day one.
Collective Wellbeing
The program is grounded in CRM® and the science of nervous system regulation, ensuring scholars develop the inner resources to sustain meaningful work — and carry that capacity into every community they serve.
Regenerative Innovation
Rather than solving problems with the same thinking that created them, scholars are trained to ask different questions — co-creating solutions that are regenerative, collaborative, and rooted in the wisdom of the communities they serve.
Accessible & Scaled
This is not an elite, selective fellowship for the few. It is a movement for the many — designed to reach 100,000 college students across institutions, backgrounds, and geographies, beginning in Southern California and growing outward.
From high school to community — a lifelong arc of ecological leadership
The Scholars Program does not exist in isolation. It is the college chapter of a lifelong pathway that begins with young people in the land and grows into community transformation.
We All Lead Camp
High school students at Lopez Urban Farm, Pomona — earning the Certificate in Ecological Leadership through two days of land-based, CRM®-integrated outdoor education.
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College students across Southern California and beyond — connected to service corps, climate corps, cross-sector mentors, and a global network of ecological leaders.
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Alumni and practitioners building thriving communities — carrying ecological leadership into organizations, municipalities, and movements.
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Growing from the ground up
HVC was founded in Southern California, and the Scholars Program begins here — at the intersection of some of the most diverse, ecologically rich, and socially complex communities in the country. Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, the San Gabriel Valley: these are not just places. They are living laboratories for the kind of interdisciplinary, regenerative leadership the world needs.
From this foundation, we are building outward — to campuses across California, across the country, and across the globe. The vision is international. The roots are local.
Partner with us to expand
We need funding and partners — right now
The We All Lead Scholars Program is in active development. We have the vision, the curriculum framework, the community relationships, and five years of proof that this model works. What we need now is the investment to scale it.
Whether you are a foundation, a university, a corporation committed to regenerative futures, or an individual who believes in the power of a generation — there is a place for you in building this.
Funders & Foundations
Support scholarship funds, program development, and the infrastructure to reach 100,000 students.
University Partners
Bring the Scholars Program to your campus — co-creating the curriculum with your community.
Service & Climate Corps
Connect your corps to our scholars — building the pipeline between ecological leadership and on-the-ground action.
Industry & Sector Leaders
Mentor scholars across disciplines — sharing how regenerative, interdisciplinary thinking is reshaping your field.
Imagine what a generation might do
One hundred thousand college students — grounded in their nervous systems, connected to their communities, fluent in ecological thinking, and linked to a global network of practitioners, innovators, and changemakers. Not solving problems from the outside. Transforming systems from within.
That is what we are building. And we are inviting you to be part of it — as a funder, a partner, a mentor, or a believer in what becomes possible when we invest in the wisdom already present in every community.