Leadership
Power of You Festival
Our flagship three-day residential festival — identity work, keynote sessions, hands-on skills workshops and problem-solving labs for high schoolers from across Ghana.
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Elevate Network Foundation · Ghana
Engage.
Empower.
Enact.
Since 2017, we've grown from a laptop and a bold idea into a movement spanning three continents — 11,000+ young people reached, 1,800 of them through the Power of You Festival alone, and counting.
About Elevate Network
Five commitments, one network.
We're a Ghanaian youth-development nonprofit built on a simple bet: young people don't need another one-off seminar, they need a network that keeps showing up. Here's what that means in practice.
Engage
We meet young people where they already are — the Power of You Festival and Tour, school clubs, community meetups — because that's where potential gets discovered and belief gets ignited.
Empower
Confidence is a skill, not a personality trait — we build it deliberately, through hands-on bootcamps like Young Africa Innovates, an Idea Lab for early-stage thinkers, and incubation support that turns ideas into actionable plans.
Enact
Every cohort ends with a decision, not a certificate — our most promising leaders go on to Seed2030 scholarships, our Leader-Fellow community, and expeditions that put them in rooms most young Ghanaians never get invited into.
Include
Roughly seven in ten of the young people we work with are young women, and programmes like AmplifyHer and Young Africa Innovates are built specifically for women, rural communities and people with disabilities who get overlooked elsewhere.
Sustain
We work with the Ministry of Education and Ghana Education Service to embed year-round Elevate Network Clubs inside partner schools, so the work outlasts any single grant cycle — or festival.
"We don't believe young people need saving. They need a platform — real skills, real mentors, and a real shot at building something that lasts."
In the field
What we've been building.
A look at recent programme days — for the partners and donors who want to see where the reports and the numbers actually come from.
Since 2017, more than 11,000 young Ghanaians have found their way into an Elevate Network room — 1,800 of them through the Power of You Festival alone.
Roughly 70% of them are young women. In the 2025–2026 year alone that meant 3,000+ young people reached across seven schools and seven communities in three regions, twenty startup founders incubated, and a three-day festival that drew 1,800 attendees in person — all powered by a five-person staff team and fifteen volunteers.
That's not an accident.
Every programme we run is designed around the young women and men who actually show up — from AmplifyHer's focus on voice and negotiation, to Prodigy Clubs running inside partner schools term after term. The numbers hold because the design does.
See how the programmes workFive doors in
One network on the other side.
Each programme is a different entry point — a festival, a classroom, an incubator — but they all feed the same network of mentors, alumni and partners.
Gender & voice
AmplifyHer
Celebrating and championing African women and girls in STEM and the creative industries — through storytelling, mentorship, and partnerships that turn talent into opportunity.
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Scholarships
Seed2030
A scholarship programme covering tuition and pairing underserved students with world-class mentors — for careers in STEM, the arts, business and social impact.
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Innovation & inclusion
Young Africa Innovates
A partnership with UNDP and the Mastercard Foundation training marginalised youth — women, rural communities, people with disabilities — to become innovators solving real local problems.
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In-school
Prodigy Clubs
Year-round, student-led clubs inside partner schools and universities — delivering our STEM, Creativity and Entrepreneurship curriculum between festivals and bootcamps.
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Join in, or back the young people who do.
Students can register interest in a Prodigy Club or the next festival cohort. Partners and sponsors can tell us how they'd like to support the work — funding, mentors, a venue, or a platform.
"Our goal isn't to keep young Ghanaians busy for a weekend. It's to build a network they can call on for years afterward — for a mentor, a partner, or just someone who believes the next idea is worth trying."
Bring a school, a festival slot, or a cheque.
Phone+233 53 078 8527
Websitewww.elevate-network.com
Based in
Dzorshie Street, Adenta Municipality
Opposite Hometown Pharmacy · MRR7+CX7
Opposite Hometown Pharmacy · MRR7+CX7
On Instagram
The feed behind the photos.
Festival replays, mentor call-outs, and the moment a cohort's idea finally clicks — posted as it happens, not just at the end of the year.
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