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Our programs put high school students shoulder-to-shoulder with inspirational leaders. They help us build the next generation of the world’s visionaries.
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We connect students with inspiring nonprofit leaders around the world, where they discover what ethical leadership looks like in action.
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We help school leaders develop and nourish global citizenship education and ethical leadership programming for students and faculty.
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We work with like-minded businesses and philanthropists to create partnerships within the broader universe of our shared values.
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Students are integral to SSTS’s mission. With over 10 years of programming and an extensive alumni network, our students are integral to our work.
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Our Global Schools Coalition brings together like-minded schools interested in ethical leadership programming.
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Students enter with their first SStS experience and stay connected long after as part of our alumni community.
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Our business partners are led by visionaries of all size businesses who believe in contributing to the health of society.
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Our nonprofit partners are grassroots leaders from around the world that serve as inspirational models of ethical leadership.
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The Shoulder-to-Shoulder Network believes ethical leadership is the “big idea” that will address humanity’s most pressing needs. Our mission to spread this idea leads to shared value for all members, from high-school students to big business.
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Reflections from Summer 2025
Gratitude, Humility, and Understanding
At the beginning of this trip i set out the goal to develop the following: gratitude for the experience, humility, and understanding of Bocas del Torro and the people that live here. Gratitude has come to me the most naturally. I am grateful for this experience, for being able to see such a beautiful part of this world and travel so freely. Grateful for the children here for showing me kindness despite my inability to…
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Seeing the Struggle and the Beauty
There’s a specific allegory that was written by Plato, or maybe it was Socrates or some other old white guy who had way too much time on his hands, either way it’s one killer allegory. It’s called the cave allegory and it opens with three prisoners. These three prisoners are chained to a wall and can only see what’s in that cave and have no idea about the whole world outside of that one crammed…
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The Spark that Starts the Flame
-Day 12 of the Trip- On July 1st, 2024, the group woke in the remote Andean community of Cancha-Cancha. This community, which is only accessible by a hike, is so small it has no school of its own. A cloudy sky contrasted the incredible starry sky of the previous night. After close to a week of camping in the Andes of Peru, today posed a certain challenge. From Cancha-Cancha to the bus that would take…
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