Impact Report 2015-2025
A Decade of Youth-Led Change
Land Acknowledgement
The Pathy Foundation Fellowship is co-hosted in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal (“where the currents divide/unite” or “where the rivers meet”) and Nalikitquniejk/Antigonish (“the place where the branches are torn off”).
These distinct territories are stewarded, safeguarded, and cared for by the Kanien’kehá:ka, Anishinaabeg, and Mi’kmaq peoples. Both are unceded, ancestral, and present homelands of these distinct nations, as well as a present home for Indigenous peoples of many nations. Pathy Fellows also bring initiatives to life across Turtle Island and the world on many Indigenous territories, each with their own distinct traditional laws, treaties, and cultural integrity.
As a program, and as a community of learners in youth leadership and community change, we recognize that the complex issues we work to address are byproducts of colonization and structures of power. Acknowledging the land is not a symbolic gesture, it is a reminder that the systems we work within continue to benefit from the displacement and dispossession of Indigenous Peoples.
What is your relationship to the land?
Founder’s Message
Ten years ago, we launched this Fellowship with a clear conviction: when young leaders are trusted with responsibility, supported in leadership development, and rooted in community priorities, they can make a meaningful contribution to lasting change.
This report reflects what a decade of that commitment can produce. The impact is visible in the initiatives Fellows have advanced, and equally in the longer arc — in exceptional alumni who continue to serve, organize, and innovate in communities across the world.
Over the years, the Fellowship has grown into a vibrant platform for thoughtful, evidence‑informed action. Fellows build their projects alongside community partners and aim to strengthen local capacity to ensure their initiatives generate sustainable impacts that extend well beyond a single year.
I am grateful to the Fellows, community partners, and staff who have shaped this work. As we look ahead, we remain committed to learning and generating impacts that last.
Laurence G. Pathy
A Lifelong Commitment to Community
Ten years ago, the Pathy Foundation Fellowship was founded on the belief that young people can build a better world. Supported by the right tools, resources, and mentorship, a new generation of young people began turning their ideas and passions into lasting change.
From 2015 to 2025, the Fellowship disbursed $2,715,000 directly to youth and communities in 22 countries, backing initiatives that span food security and agroecology, reimagining education, sexual and reproductive health and rights, social change through arts and recreation, among many more areas of impact.
The Pathy Foundation Fellowship is an intensive, 12-month experiential learning opportunity for graduating university students across Canada to create a lasting social impact in their communities.
Every initiative engages directly with community members, to ensure community voices remain at the centre of innovative, strengths- and abundance-based initiatives for brighter futures.
“Being a Pathy Fellow means that I am part of a group of people who believe in real change and are willing to do the hard work to make that change happen. It reminds me that leadership begins with kindness, patience, and listening before acting.”
- Anthony Ighomuaye
- Cohort 8
A Decade at a Glance
Our Founding Values remain the core of the program:
Youth-Centered Leadership
Since 2023, the Fellowship has been led by a management team comprised exclusively of Alumnx under the age of 30. It has increasingly incorporated Alumnx knowledge and expertise into every facet of the program — from selecting each cohort, to curriculum development and facilitation, to ongoing mentorship. By placing Alumnx in decision-making positions, the program has moved beyond a traditional fellowship to become a fully youth-led movement.
Transformative Learning
The Fellowship views the trials and errors of real life as the catalyst for profound personal growth. In the early years of the program, this learning was centred on academic foundations and praxis. Today, this is realized through embodied pedagogies that use arts-based methods and land-based learning. Fellows bridge the gap between theory and practice by learning alongside community and by developing tools to navigate complex dynamics.
Supported Autonomy
Supported autonomy is the freedom to lead your own journey with the guarantee that you have a learning community and institutional support behind you. Fellows undertake the responsibilities of changemaking, while having access to unwavering wrap-around supports along the way. The recent launch of the Ethics Advisory Committee — composed of Alumnx and staff — is an example of a principled framework where Fellows receive feedback without compromising the autonomy of their leadership.
“I am incredibly grateful for the Fellowship experience and particularly how the supported autonomy approach gave me the flexibility to plan and replan my initiative as it changed once I was on the ground.”
- Sara-Maya Kaba
- Cohort 8
Listening, Learning & Leading
The Pathy Foundation Fellowship realized early on that meaningful change requires sustained engagement beyond a single year. For this reason, it prioritized investment in changemakers who signaled a long-term interest in community change.
Today, the majority of Alumnx continue to prioritize work related to their original Pathy initiative, while more than three quarters of them work in the non-profit or social impact sector.
Nanda Kishore Daggupati
- Tamil Nadu, Chennai
- COHORT 4
“The Pathy Fellowship has been the most transformational year of my life so far. It has been a fundamental part of my career trajectory.”
Why isn’t high quality education afforded to all children?
It’s the question which Nanda Kishore Daggupati decided to answer with his Fellowship.
Kishore led a highly successful educational development project in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, in partnership with local NGO Chudar and the Tamil Nadu Ministry of Education. Originally focused on improving math retention among middle school students, Kishore facilitated a strategic government partnership that saw his initiative implemented across more than 20 schools, creating innovative educational technology and recruiting low-income students to promote their pursuit of meaningful employment.
Following his Fellowship, Kishore completed a Master of Education Policy and Analysis at Harvard University before beginning a career at Odessa Health, working to empower underserved children and families through equitable access to care. With a continued career focus on designing and scaling transformative learning and public health initiatives, Kishore leads programs supporting positive youth mental health outcomes in Boston and offers learning and development consulting services based in Asset-Based Community-Driven approaches. His ongoing endeavours, including City as a School and Nandavanam, are examples of ways he continues to build upon his Fellowship work.
A Decade at a Glance
of Alumnx continue working in the non-profit or social impact sector
continue to prioritize work related to their original Pathy initiative
of Alumnx pursue higher education following their Fellowship year
of Pathy initiatives are still operational post-Fellowship
of Alumnx continue their Pathy initiative as a primary focus
What career pathways did Fellows pursue post-Fellowship?
Individual Fellows may be counted across multiple categories where their careers have spanned sectors.
Community Impact Highlights
Thousands of people have been impacted by Fellowship initiatives. Here are just a few highlights from community engagement initiatives over the years:
His inclusive sledge hockey program has trained full teams of youth athletes with and without disabilities since 2019, challenging barriers in rural sport and launching a new age of inclusion in Antigonish and surrounding communities.
From Gio’s community: “Other communities are reaching out to [us] to find out: what have we done, and what are we doing that’s able to grow this program?” Community Member, 2019
After establishing five farm-based learning programs, her Pathy initiative has grown into an incorporated non-profit making outdoor learning accessible to hundreds of youth annually to this day.
“Sophia’s Fellowship year effectively laid the groundwork for something that has now become part of our community’s identity. […] Perhaps most meaningfully, the project shifted what feels possible here.” Community Partner, 2021
Her initiative to support pregnant and young mothers has reached over 280 refugees and involved an inquiry process that included interviews with nearly 200 young mothers, resulting in the launch of a community-driven organization in Kyaka II.
“What stood out most was how the Fellowship bridged international solidarity with local resilience — turning community aspirations into tangible, sustainable progress.” Collective Community Reflection, 2023
Her initiative realized 27 community events which regularly engaged over 100 Punjabi Grandmothers in the Edmonton community, resulting in sustained funding and partnerships to continue programming centered on reduced isolation, intergenerational knowledge exchange, and addiction education and support.
“The combination of support, structure, and resources that the Fellowship offered was truly instrumental in enabling the success and long-term sustainability of this initiative.” Anmol Nijjar, Community Partner, 2024
Her menstrual health social enterprise, Saheli, reached 220 women through educational workshops, and 1,600 women through subsidized hygiene product sales in the first year alone. Today, the work continues through Tarrina Health, where Corrina serves as Co-Founder and CEO, bringing access to essential health and hygiene products to roughly one million people every month.
“I was one of the first team members of Saheli as I joined in October 2018. […] I feel that working at Saheli gives me a sense of independence because I can take care of myself and my children on my own.” Durgaben Sharma, Community Member, 2018
Through 3 education programs, 2 infrastructure projects, and numerous outreach events, Damai’s rural inclusion initiative engaged more than 1,100 youths across North Sumatra in community leadership and digital capacity-building.
“I am interested in [using SADA SOLU's Digital Learning Centre] to teach about culture and customs to the next generation so that they do not become extinct. - Community Member, 2025
He engaged over 300 rickshaw drivers to co-design and pilot electrical vehicle conversion, increasing driver earnings by up to 50%. By reducing fuel dependency and powering homes in the evening, the pilot resulted in a scalable model that reframes mobility assets as both income generators and decentralized energy infrastructure.
Explore where our Fellows and their communities have undertaken their initiatives around the world:
Faduma Gure
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- COHORT 1
“This experience has helped me grow as a person and has given me the confidence and skills to further my career in meaningful work.”
As a health sciences student in Ottawa, Faduma Gure saw a gap between her community’s healthcare needs and what was available. She decided to do something about it.
During her Pathy Fellowship, Faduma established the Somali Interdisciplinary Health Network in Ottawa to undertake extensive community engagement and research. After her Fellowship, Faduma’s commitment to maternal health deepened when she began pursuing her studies in Midwifery and advancing access to equitable and evidence-informed midwifery care in Canada and beyond.
In 2019, she reached a significant milestone by becoming one of the first Pathy Alumnx to independently launch a social venture: LISS Technologies. This innovative health start-up directly addresses critical gaps in maternal care by providing the world’s first easy-to-use, low-cost, solar-powered breast pumps, designed for mothers globally but particularly in lower-resourced contexts. Since piloting this innovation with mothers in Somalia through a Government of Canada funded initiative, Faduma has partnered with organizations globally and is actively working to facilitate access to the LISS breast pumps for mothers worldwide.
Canada & the World
Over the program’s first decade, Fellows carried their initiatives back to home communities, onto ancestral lands, and into communities where they were welcomed as trusted guests and friends.
Spanning communities from Haida Gwaii and Calgary in the west to Antigonish and Grand-Falls Windsor in the east, and into northern communities like Puvirnituq, Nunavik, Québec and Arviat, Nunavut.
Africa: 17 Fellows have worked in countries including Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Morocco, Kenya, Rwanda, Botswana, and South Africa.
Asia: 6 Fellows have implemented projects in Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Laos, and Myanmar.
The Americas & Caribbean: 5 Fellows have been based in locations including Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Bequia).
Oceania: 1 Fellow has been supported to complete their Fellowship in the Cook Islands, a Pacific Island nation.
“The most impactful thing that the Pathy Fellowship offered us is the freedom, opportunity, and courage to fulfill a vision that we have to try to solve along with our community – an issue that we see and that we’re passionate about.”
- Chama Laassassy
- Cohort 9
Built to Change
The Fellowship was designed to support youth in their leadership journeys and has, in turn, been shaped by those same leaders. Each cohort of Pathy Fellows has left an indelible mark on the program, strengthening its legacy and refining its approach.
This section traces three key moments in the evolution of the Fellowship: from the themes that surfaced organically through community-driven work, to the Alumnx who came back to lead the program itself, to the national expansion that opened the Fellowship’s doors wider than ever before.
“The community of this Fellowship is unparalleled! I’ve never had the opportunity to be around so many like-minded, genuine, and caring souls, all committed to creating positive change in this world.”
- Prishni Seyone
- Cohort 6
Emergence of Core Themes
The Fellowship’s areas of impact weren’t chosen by a committee — they emerged organically from a decade of Fellows following the lead of their communities. Year after year, as Fellows brought new partnerships and new priorities into the program, the breadth of the Fellowship’s collective impact grew with them.
From social and cultural justice to environmental and economic change, these thematic areas reflect the real work Fellows have led in community. They showcase what is possible when young leaders are trusted and offered genuine autonomy.
Themes can provide a view into that breadth, but they aren’t exclusive. Future initiatives do not need to fit within these themes — they need to fit a community’s priorities.
“My leadership in work is guided by communication, consent, and transparency. The Fellowship allowed me to pursue the opportunities where these values were uncovered, and provided me with the reflection practices necessary to strengthen them into core values.”
- Lil Borger
- Cohort 9
Félix Aupalu
- Puvirnituq, Nunavik, Canada
- COHORT 7
“[The Fellowship] is a once in a lifetime opportunity that I am highly grateful for. It has confirmed my need to align my work and career around education and transmission of cultural knowledge with my community.”
Félix had long heard a calling to support his home community of Puvirnituq, Nunavik. As a Pathy Fellow, he found a way to answer that calling by reimagining future-building with Inuit youth in several communities in the Arctic circle.
His initiative was named Qaulirmat — “because it’s dawn” or “as dawn is happening” in Inuktitut — to reflect its vision of empowering young Inuit aged 13 to 18 to explore education, entrepreneurship, and cultural expression. During his Fellowship year, Félix laid the groundwork for northern programming by building partnerships, securing sustainable funding, developing curriculum, and incorporating a not-for-profit organization, All Arctic, to house the initiative. Qaulirmat has seen great success as an Inuit-led and Inuit staffed initiative, now hosting an annual summer leadership program with up to 135 participants between three communities (Puvirnituq, Salluit, and Quaqtaq), and plans to scale in future years.
Félix’s ongoing work and stewardship of Qaulirmat and All Arctic are deeply personal and political. As an Inuk leader, he views his initiative not as innovation, but as a necessary response to the ongoing impacts of colonialism and a step toward self-determination. Félix continues to nurture relationships across sectors to ensure Inuit youth can meet their full potential. His commitment to youth empowerment and cultural revitalization is helping shape a future where Inuit voices lead the way.
Commitment to Youth-Centred Leadership
A defining transformation occurred in January 2023, when the program fully realized its core value of youth-centered leadership. The management team shifted to become comprised exclusively of Pathy Alumnx under the age of 30.
This evolution toward a “by-youth, for-youth” approach embedded youth leadership at every level, ensuring that the staff supporting the Fellows were their generational peers who authentically understood the transformative nature of the experience.
Alumnx are increasingly integrated into high-level decision-making, including holding a designated voting seat on the Selection Committee and forming an Alumnx Council to foster lifelong connection.
Today, the Alumnx Network is the primary engine of the Fellowship’s operations:
The Alumnx Council
This volunteer-led body was launched to foster connection and engagement across all cohorts, contributing new ideas that reflect the community’s evolving interests.
Application Review
Alumnx are an essential part of reviewing applications, bringing a lived understanding of the Fellowship experience, as well as sector insights to the process.
The Selection Committee
Each year, a past Fellow now holds a designated voting seat to help select and interview the next generation of Fellows.
Pathy Mentors
Alumnx now participate in the formalized mentorship offering for current Fellows, sharing their field expertise and lived experiences to help them navigate systemic barriers and technical challenges.
Ethical Guidance
The newly established Ethics Advisory Committee, which includes Alumnx members, provides non-evaluative guidance to help current Fellows lead with integrity in diverse community contexts.
Alumnx Facilitation
Past Fellows are invited to contribute to and lead guest facilitation on relevant topics in the program’s annual training and learning components.
The Management Team
Since January 2023, the core staff has been comprised exclusively of Alumnx under the age of 30, ensuring the program is led by those who authentically understand the experience.
Jessica Jaja
- Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- COHORT 1
“The Fellowship taught me to lead with listening and trust, and to sit with complexity instead of needing all the answers.”
Jessica’s work sits at the intersection of embodied leadership, community-rooted change, and collective care in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. She first came to the island of Bequia in 2013 during her Master’s program, where she became deeply engaged through climate change research, creative workshops with youth, and long-term relationship building.
During her Pathy Fellowship, Jessica led a participatory arts and filmmaking program engaging youth, artists, and community leaders across Bequia. Using storytelling to explore environmental challenges and strengthen community remembering, the initiative became a catalyst for her co-founding of The Hub Collective.
The Hub Collective is a Vincentian nonprofit working at the intersection of arts, healing, and the environment to strengthen cultural heritage, intergenerational connection, and climate resilience across the Grenadines. Jessica continues to co-lead the organization, now nearing a decade of impact, while expanding her work to include women’s economic empowerment as Founding General Manager of Bequia Threadworks (2019-2024), alongside initiatives spanning mental health, traditional ecological knowledge, and post-disaster recovery across the Grenadines.
As a lifelong grassroots activist, Jessica has consistently explored how creative practice can support community-led change and collective wellbeing. She is currently deepening this work through studies in somatic therapy, shaping how she supports individuals and communities navigating layered experiences of trauma, limited access to mental health services, and ongoing social and economic inequalities. This learning informs her work with initiatives like Healing Together, as well as her approach to supporting heart-centered leaders and community spaces.
Across each chapter, Jessica centers deep listening, shared leadership, and locally-grounded approaches that honour lived experience while nurturing dignity and belonging.
National Expansion
As the Fellowship entered its 10th year, it broadened eligibility to all accredited Canadian universities. Starting in 2025, this national expansion invited a diverse new network of emerging leaders from across the country to join a movement of community-driven change.
Challenges as Catalysts
Reflective practice is a core element of a Fellow’s training: learning to pivot and incorporate learnings to strengthen approaches. Over its ten-year history, the Fellowship itself has incorporated this practice of experiencing challenges and growing stronger for them.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fellowship moved temporarily to a fully virtual training model, ensuring youth leaders and their communities could benefit from the resources available through the program while respecting provincial and national health efforts. Across the country, youth leaders focused inwards, investing in local relationships, mutual aid efforts, and opportunities for community-engaged learning. The result: the first cohort based entirely in Canada.
Here are some other pivot points we grew through over the past decade.
Challenge
Learning priorities of young leaders were evolving, and existing curriculum and facilitation was no longer meeting the moment.
OPPORTUNITY
In 2023, the program rebuilt its curriculum and support structures.
The world is becoming increasingly complex, and we hear a need for more relatable, representative, innovative and iterative content across the board. With a renewed focus on embodied and land-based pedagogies, field experience, and incorporation of Alumnx knowledge and experience, Fellows receive a more holistic approach to their learning and initiative design.
Challenge
As cost of living sharply increases, Gen Z face larger financial barriers to participation.
OPPORTUNITY
Funding increased from $25,000 to today’s $50,000, with further financial benefits included to subsidize tax implications and health spending.
This increase ensures that young leaders are not barred from participation due to financial constraints.
Challenge
The application review process risked overlooking exceptional candidates and introduced bias into Fellow selection.
OPPORTUNITY
A standardized review rubric and designated positions for Alumnx during application and Selection processes was established.
These now ensure youth representation in decision-making, with an emphasis on authenticity and lived experience. The new application process includes multiple formats, including writing, videos, group and individual interviews, and peer-feedback mechanisms to triangulate decisions.
“This Fellowship offered the opportunity to build a new approach from the ground up with the community, meeting people where they are and understanding their daily realities.”
- Shona Moreau
- Cohort 9
“What made the collaboration work was [a] willingness to listen and pivot without ego. That consistency is what ultimately built the trust needed for the pilot to work. The program enabled the slow, consistent relationship building work that is essential for any real impact.”
- Anonymous Community Member, 2024
The People Who Make It Happen
Pathy Fellows see possibility where others see limitation. They are driven by a deep sense of purpose and a desire to work with their community. They want to co-create meaningful, lasting change with members of your community.
Pathy Fellows step into the unknown with an open mind. They know they don’t have all the answers, but they lead with curiosity. They listen closely, reflect honestly, and answer thoughtfully.
Pathy Fellows understand that real change is complex and often slow and are ready to commit to a lifelong journey.
If you see yourself in this, you might be ready to take a bold step toward building a more just, inclusive, and abundant world.
“Being a Pathy Fellow means moving through the world with courage, integrity and heart. It means facing a problem for what it is, and navigating systems of power and oppression to create a more just, fair, equitable, and joyous world!”
- Ravia Dhaliwal
- Cohort 9
Alumnx Leadership
The Fellowship exists within a rich ecosystem of staff, partners, mentors, and community leaders who ensure every Fellow has the support they need to create lasting change.
The following Alumnx oversaw the daily operations, curriculum design, and long-term vision of the Fellowship, as the program’s first decade came to a close:
Gabriela Gomez
- Leadership Coach
- Cohort 3
Guides Fellows through personal and leadership development, with a focus on self-resourcing as changemakers and systems change.
Jessica Franko
- Program Director
- Cohort 5
Leads the Fellowship team, managing the program’s structure, Fellow-support, partnerships, and strategic direction.
Courtney Murdoch
- Impact & Engagement Manager
- Cohort 6
Leads the evaluation of program outcomes, communications strategy, and strengthening the global network of Alumnx and post-secondary relationships.
Aubrey Apps
- Operations & Outreach Coordinator
- Cohort 8
Leads program delivery logistics, candidate advising, recruitment, design and marketing.
Founding Implementing Partners
The Fellowship was born from a visionary partnership between the Pathy Family Foundation and Coady Institute.
Pathy Family Foundation
As the managing body, the Pathy Family Foundation oversees the program’s strategy, operations, and long-term vision, providing the critical resources necessary for Fellows to thrive.
Coady Institute
Coady Institute continues to serve as the educational partner, grounding the Fellowship in the principles of Asset-Based Community-Driven Development and supporting the training that prepares Fellows for the field.
Our Founding University Partners
We are deeply grateful to the following institutions for their long-standing commitment to nurturing the next generation of leaders, and for embarking on this journey with us as the Fellowship grew from idea to impact:
Gratitude
The Fellowship extends deepest gratitude to the Pathy Family Foundation for a decade-long commitment and steadfast belief in the transformative power of youth-led change.
Profound thanks are directed to all the Fellows — the 84 extraordinary young leaders who launched community-driven initiatives in 22 countries in this first decade. The generosity with which you share your experience, spirit, knowledge, and energy drive this program forward, enhancing not only processes and curriculum, but the learning and experience of Fellows for years to come.
The Fellowship exists within a broader ecosystem of the communities which host, nurture, and work alongside Pathy Fellows. We extend our sincere gratitude to those who have supported Fellows in the creation and implementation of their change initiatives: partner organizations, community contacts, local champions, collaborators, community members, and initiative participants.
We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to a global network of development practitioners, entrepreneurs, and field experts who act as Pathy Mentors to our Fellows, for their generous contributions of knowledge and mentorship.
We would like to graciously acknowledge and thank our growing community of educators and facilitators, who have shaped classroom learning and Fellowship training. Your dedication to fostering critical thinking and equipping Fellows with tools for changemaking has left an indelible mark on hearts and minds.
We further extend enormous thanks to former team members and Alumnx who worked with the Pathy Fellowship from 2015: Adam Baden-Clay, Victoria Bauman, John Paul Dobson, Sarah Lajeunesse, and Becca Bishop.
The Fellowship honours the over 600 applicants who had the courage to share their vision of a better world.
Thank you to these universities for entrusting us to support your students in our first decade:
- Bishop’s University
- Carleton University
- Concordia University
- Dalhousie University
- Laurentian University
- McGill University
- Memorial University
- Mount Allison University
- Mount Royal University
- Queen’s University
- Simon Fraser University
- St. Francis Xavier University
- University of Alberta
- University of British Columbia
- University of Calgary
- University of Guelph
- University of King’s College
- University of Lethbridge
- University of Manitoba
- University of Northern British Columbia
- University of Ottawa
- University of Toronto
- University of Victoria
- University of Western Ontario
- University of Winnipeg
- York University
- Yukon University
Finally, the Fellowship is immensely grateful to Coady Institute for a foundational partnership since the program’s inception. The Institute has helped equip a generation of changemakers with the vital tools to strengthen resilient communities worldwide.
- Martha Fanjoy, Director of Programs, Coady Institute
The Next Decade
The Pathy Foundation Fellowship’s first decade is the story of a program that grew alongside the youth it was designed to serve.
As the Fellowship enters its second decade, it has successfully transitioned from a targeted leadership program into a platform to catalyze a global movement of community-driven changemakers.
“Ten years in, we’re standing on a strong foundation—built through deep learning and shared values. That’s where our momentum comes from, and it’s what will carry us into the next decade of community‑led change, filled with integrity and care.”
- Michelle LeDonne, Executive Director, Pathy Family Foundation
We have much to look forward to.
Continued expansion to universities across Canada
The Fellowship aims to grow its institutional reach by 10 additional universities per year and to engage students from roughly 80% of Canada’s public universities within the next five years. This broadened ecosystem will deepen collaboration and strengthen pathways for emerging leaders.
Welcoming our first Fellows from universities in the Territories, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland
As the Fellowship expands nationally, the program aspires to welcome its first Fellows from universities in every corner of the country. This goal reflects a commitment to equitable access across Canada’s geographic landscape and ensures that historically underrepresented communities gain access to the resources offered by this program.
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) framework
To more accurately measure leadership growth, community engagement, and long-term impact, the Fellowship has launched an enhanced MEL framework. Anchored in a people-centered approach, the system will incorporate multi-year data collection and feedback mechanisms to enable greater accountability to participants, communities, and institutional partners.
Establishment of a national, multi-sector Community of Practice
The Fellowship will convene Canada’s first Community of Practice dedicated to youth leadership advising that includes the post-secondary perspective. It will bring together national leadership programs, scholarship organizations, and university advisors to share best practices and to serve as a catalyst for collective growth.
Building on a decade of cross-cohort learning
Following the momentum of the program’s 10-year anniversary gathering, the Fellowship will deepen opportunities for cross-cohort connection, shared learning, and long-term collaboration among Fellows and Alumnx. Through structured knowledge exchange and network-driven partnerships, the program aims to nurture an interconnected community that builds collective movement and sustains social impact.
Exploring deeper collaboration with the Pathy Family Foundation
The Pathy Family Foundation is excited to explore pathways that amplify Fellow impact in alignment with the Foundation’s broader priorities. By fostering deeper collaboration between the Fellowship and the Foundation’s wider work and partner network, we hope to strengthen and sustain the changemaking initiatives of Fellows and their communities.
- Omer Malikyar
- Cohort 10
Some of our Alumnx gathered to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the program. Hear what they had to say about the experience.
Welcoming our 100th Fellow in Cohort 11 — a landmark moment representing a decade of trust, community, and belief.
Together, this network of leaders remains rooted in community and driven by vision, ready to ignite transformative change for generations to come.
Will you join us?
It Starts With You
Graduating Students
Are you ready to lead? If you have a passion for community and a vision for change, the Pathy Foundation Fellowship offers you the funding, training, and support to turn your idea into a reality.
Mentors & Partners
Want to be a champion of young changemakers? We invite subject-matter specialists, community leaders, and Alumnx to serve as Pathy Mentors and facilitators, sharing their expertise to empower the next generation of leaders.
For the Community
Do you know someone who could be the next Pathy Fellow? A lifetime of impact can start with a single conversation. Explore our Alumnx stories and nominate a graduating student that could help us continue this vital movement of community-driven change.