What Mentorship Taught Jack Cline
Youth Champion’s Co-Founder Jack Kline wrote a piece for Entrepreneur on how mentorship taught him how mentorship shapes credibility, momentum and long-term impact for leaders who want to build trust.
“Most leadership advice focuses on what you should achieve. My most important leadership lessons came from those who invested in me and from those I chose to invest in. I didn’t learn them in a corner office or after a big win. I learned them through mentorship, both from those who guided me early and from the young leaders I’ve had the privilege to mentor through my nonprofit, Youth Champions.
Mentorship did more than improve my skills. It reshaped how I define success and how I develop young people. It also taught me to take action before everything feels certain. If you care about meaningful results, those shifts matter.”
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Executive Director: Michelle Durand
Mission
Each $1,000 donation to Youth Champions funds one student’s stipend, powering an entire year of personal development for an underserved Los Angeles teen at no cost to them. Your gift provides access to this life-changing program, stability for a teen’s family, and opportunity through mentorship and exposure to new horizons – all of which can launch the next Kevin or Danna toward a brighter future. It’s not just a donation; it’s an investment in Los Angeles’s youth, one champion at a time.
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Help Guide Underserved Youth to Brighter Futures
Each $1,000 donation to Youth Champions funds one student’s stipend, powering an entire year of personal development for an underserved Los Angeles teen at no cost to them. Your gift provides access to this life-changing program, stability for a teen’s family, and opportunity through mentorship and exposure to new horizons – all of which can launch the next Kevin or Danna toward a brighter future. It’s not just a donation; it’s an investment in Los Angeles’s youth, one champion at a time.
Key Supporters
Business Finance Capital (BFC)
Maureen & Mike Mekjian, The M Foundation
Vera R. Campbell Foundation
Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation
Bagnard Family Foundation
Gold Family Foundation
The Friese Foundation
Vernon CommUNITY