About

Lead for America began in 2017 as a dorm room startup and has grown to become one of the nation's fastest growing nonprofits and a model national program.

Lead for America has created more than 300 paid full-time Fellowships across more than 40 states to date and is set to be the first national service program to support leaders across all 50 states.

Lead For America is committed to building a leadership force of our nation’s most outstanding people to serve in the communities they call home, and to stitch our country back together through a shared commitment to place and love of neighbor. The primary fault line in our country today is political and ideological difference, threatening our democracy and the ideals on which the United States was founded.

Lead For America aims to be a binding agent for our country and actively recruits and welcomes host site placements, fellows, staff members, and partners from all ideological backgrounds. At Lead For America, we prioritize building bridges across ideological and social divides through relationships with those we disagree with. This means we sit in the discomfort of disagreement and press on together in our vision of creating a strong community for everyone.