Museum of Modern PBThe goal of Youth Lead the Change is to put real decision-making power over $1 million of the City of Boston's capital budget in the hands of young people aged 12 to 25, and teach them how city government and budgeting work, so that youth are engaged as the solution rather than the problem, the City's capital plan reflects their priorities, and they gain an entry point into civic life that builds stronger, safer and healthier communities across a more unified Boston.
The rulebook states four goals: Increase Youth Power, Allow All Voices to Be Heard, Build Stronger, Safer and Healthier Communities, and Strengthen City-wide Sense of Pride, Solidarity and Equality. By the third year the City had added a fifth, Pathways into Civic Life (Augsberger et al., 2016). The City's own request for proposals framed the purpose as making the capital plan reflect youth priorities, teaching youth about city-building and budgeting, and empowering youth to participate in government. Grillos (2014) noticed a split in the hierarchy: the City emphasised effects on the young people themselves, while the participants mostly wanted to change their communities and cited outcome reasons for joining. The Capacity-level cell records the convener's stated emphasis, not the participants'. Multi-cycle is a reading rather than a quotation: the rulebook calls itself a work in progress to be improved in future years, and the City had committed a further $1 million for the following cycle.
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