Center for Expanding Leadership and Opportunity

Convenings: celo hosted several convenings throughout the 2024-2025 fiscal year, including the youth service convening in september 2024 and sxsw edu cohort in march 2025. The convenings are an Opportunity to bring people together in support of the celo mission.

Research: celo is the owner and operator of the world's largest and longest-running research program on the building blocks of youth development - in other words, measurable steps toward developing competencies, such as resilience, collaboration, and creative-problem solving. Our research enables us to define, measure, and benchmark 34 soft skills and has identified high-impact pedagogical practices that accelerate the development of these skills. In addition to translating our research into evidence-based strategies and recommendations to guide impact for the field of youth development, we have translated our data into user-friendly assessment tools to give organizations and their leaders the unparalleled ability to measure their performance at the individual, programmatic, and/or organizational levels, including over time, and to receive actionable recommendations.

Index: the Leadership development index is a digital assessment tool that measures Leadership capacities to accelerate personal and professional growth. Grounded in 20 years of cutting-edge research, and benchmarked with 600,000 participants across career fields, the index is designed for impact.

General programs: other general supporting activities.