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EDITORIAL
Young People Are Speaking To Us. Are We Close Enough to Hear Them?

Dalouge Smith, Founder and Executive Director, The Creating Abundance Collaborative; Co-founder and CEO, The Lewis Prize, 2018–2024

12-03-2025

I’d been missing the presence and perspective of young people in these gatherings dedicated to arts education, young people’s wellbeing, and community health through the arts. When young people were present, it was most often as performers, and occasionally as panelists alongside adults.

Throughout these events, I had been wondering, “How is it that we continue to position young people as objects of conversation, and not the subject?”

GUEST PERSPECTIVE
Creating Collaborative Pathways for Expanded Support of CYD

Shenika Ofor, Head of Communications, The Lewis Prize for Music

06-05-2024

As The Lewis Prize enters a new phase, we are taking the learnings from our grant process, field relationships, and research to create a platform for expanded investment in creative youth development. We’ve designed the Creating Abundance Collaborative, a cross-sector space where practitioners, young people, researchers, philanthropists, and policymakers come together to advance the field through shared learning and pooled resources.

New Report and Upcoming Events from The Lewis Prize

05-01-2024

The Lewis Prize for Music’s recent “Producing Well-Being Report” is chock full of evidence that Creative Youth Development programs hone essential leadership skills in young people and help set them up for professional success.

Free Creative Youth Development Workshops

04-03-2024

The Lewis Prize for Music’s Creating Abundance Collaborative is hosting two virtual workshops to level up the field of creative youth development, with a focus on career-readiness and wellbeing.

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