ABOUT MTP

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.

The Journey

With your support, I will be joining 25 other young civic entrepreneurs on a week-long journey from Los Angeles to Detroit by train this August. I will be stopping in cities along the way to meet with local leaders, businesses, artists, and others to understand the business ecosystem and opportunities for developing limeSHIFT projects. While on board, I will benefit from mentorship and facilitated sessions that will help us scale.

This is all possible thanks to the the Millennial Trains Project (MTP), an award-winning 501(c)3 non-profit organization that leads transcontinental train journeys for young innovators to explore America’s new frontiers. More about MTP can be found here: http://www.millennialtrain.co/

The Impact

Your contributions will underwrite expenses associated with the flights and journey (on-train accommodation, meals, and all MTP-related programming activities).

I hope to connect with others interested in bridging the gap between art, community and business in each city as well as learn from and share with other innovators and young entrepreneurs and changemakers on this journey. Your contribution will help make this a possibility.