NVEEE's mission is to prevent bullying, violence, and suicide among youth, families, and communities through direct service, mentoring, and prevention education. For 14 years, NVEEE has supported and invested in young people ages 14-24 within two majority-minority cities program participants face complex difficulties that are deeply interwoven with both racial/minority stress and economic hardship. Through three distinct programs, we serve approximately 350 young people annually via leadership opportunities, mentorship, vital resources, referrals, and peer-led spaces where emerging young leaders can cultivate essential leadership and life skills and build lifelong supportive relationships.

A world in which youth are resilient, socially responsible leaders who advance human rights and strengthen communities.

Goal One: Enhance our financial systems, ensuring transparency, sustainability, and resource optimization.

Goal Two: Strategically grow and diversify the reach of our current programs and services, ensuring they are accessible to an ever-widening demographic, thus magnifying our impact.

Goal Three: Design and introduce new programs that directly respond to the evolving needs of the communities we serve, ensuring NVEEE remains at the forefront of impactful community service.

We partnered with Resilia for the past 12 months to obtain on-demand coaching from industry professionals for the organization's executive director and board chair.

Over the past 12-18 months, NVEEE has navigated significant internal and external shifts. Externally, we grappled with the societal repercussions of the global pandemic, which dramatically changed the way youth interacted, learned, and sought support. Internally, we acknowledged the need to fortify our organizational capacities. We embarked on a strategic planning exercise, resulting in four primary goals that serve as our roadmap today. These objectives ranged from organizational investments to expanding our services and even devising new programs based on observed community needs. Central to our internal evolution was the focus on youth-centric safe spaces. Feedback from our community has been invaluable in this journey of adaptation. We've remained committed to listening, iterating, and ensuring that every step we take aligns with our core values and serves the best interests of the communities we champion. In essence, the challenges of the past year have not deterred us. Instead, they've forged us into a more resilient, agile, and community-focused organization, ever-committed to our mission.