Many Hats Institute

The Many Hats Institute's Reach Your Peak Program was developed in collaboration with Youth Service America, Harvard Business School CSO Program, and AOL@SCHOOL.

The Many Hats Institute developed the Reach Your Peak (RYP) Program that works to inspire youth ages 12-18 to dream, and to give them the resources to help them realize their personal potential and their community goals. RYP provides youth the courage, training, and tools to achieve their goals through activities related to goal-setting, education, fundraising, and volunteer service to turn their dreams into action. The D.R.E.A.M. Curriculum is an educational program, that clearly lays out the road map for youth to set their own goals and take action to achieve them. It's easy to follow and easy to remember with its 5 Step/10 Lesson curriculum. D.R.E.A.M. uses a two-pronged approach, having the students set both a Community Dream as well as a Personal Dream, in order to show that the D.R.E.A.M. approach can be applied to any situation. This program was created to get youth to think and to D.R.E.A.M. Its first lesson was created to jump start that process before any goals are even thought about or set, by having the students write an essay defining "What Reach Your Peak means to me", in 250 words or less. The top essays from each school will be sent to RYP and the winners will be chosen by our selection committee. Grants of varying monetary value will be awarded to those schools whose student(s) have been selected not only for their essay, but also for how successfully they took action to reach their goals. These grants will be used to further meet the needs of their school or communities.