THE MILLENNIAL TRAINS PROJECT (MTP) is an award-winning non-profit that leads crowd-funded transcontinental train journeys for diverse groups of young innovators to explore America’s new frontiers, grow as leaders, and launch projects that benefit and inspire their communities.

This caravan of vintage rail cars is more than a means of exploring geographies of innovation — it is an incubator of ideas and symbol of progress powered by millennial aspirations and a world-class coalition of partners. MTP participants come from every corner of the world and use our journeys to advance important, creative projects that directly relate to the defining issues of our time.

Over the past three years, the program has led journeys across the southern, northern, and central United States, and engaged with 20 communities along the way. From small town train stations to the White House, MTP has been hailed as a game-changing innovation in the realm of next-generation leadership development, community engagement, and social entrepreneurship.

Building on the foundation of these first journeys, the program is looking forward to leading the next two journeys in August 2016, and to further establishing MTP as a civic/entrepreneurial right of passage for future generations.