youth & inter-generation engagement
Before every generational shift, there’s a moment of recognition - the realization that leadership must expand, evolve, and make room for new voices. That’s where intergenerational strategy begins. Queenside Ventures helps organizations build systems where experience and fresh perspective move together, creating leadership models designed for the world ahead.
WHAT WE DO
We help brands, organizations, campaigns, and public figures communicate with clarity, intention, and influence.
We help organizations build leadership ecosystems that reflect the full spectrum of their community across age, identity, and experience.
Queenside Ventures brings chess-based strategy to nonprofits, foundations, civic institutions, public-sector agencies, and political campaigns that want to engage people across generations with intention. Our work ensures that institutional wisdom, lived experience, and fresh perspective coexist, complement one another, and move in alignment toward a shared mission.
We design systems where participation isn’t symbolic, it’s structural. Through governance redesign, board diversification, political engagement strategy, cross-generational facilitation, and community-driven policy design, we help leaders create environments where every voice has clarity, influence, and purpose.
Because organizations and campaigns don’t win by elevating one generation over another. They win when generations lead together.
WHO IT’S FOR
Our work is built for organizations whose impact spans generations:
Nonprofits & Foundations strengthening leadership structures, increasing generational representation, and building engagement strategies that reflect the communities they serve.
Boards & Governance Committees designing balanced boards with diverse ages, perspectives, and lived experiences.
Civic & Government Entities seeking thoughtful pathways for residents of different ages to participate in public life, policy shaping, and community decision-making.
Political Campaigns & Public Leaders designing cross-generational messaging, voter engagement plans, and policy strategies that resonate across age groups - including youth policy platforms, multi-generational coalitions, and inclusive campaign structures.
Educational & Youth-Serving Institutions creating systems that respect and integrate youth voice, adult leadership, and shared decision-making.
Community-Based Organizations strengthening intergenerational trust, collaboration, and long-term engagement.
HOW IT WORKS
Our work blends governance & human behavior with the strategic discipline of chess.
Through strategic facilitation, governance design, leadership development, and long-term advisory, we help organizations:
Build leadership systems that include every generation creating clear roles, expectations, and structures that elevate shared decision-making.
Design balanced boards and governance pipelines supporting individuals of all ages in stepping into leadership with confidence and clarity.
Strengthen communication across age groups so teams, boards, and stakeholders collaborate with trust, alignment, and purpose.
Develop civic and campaign strategies rooted in intergenerational insight crafting policies, engagement plans, and voter strategies that resonate across ages.
Create community engagement frameworks that bring diverse age groups together to shape solutions and long-term vision.
Facilitate cross-generational dialogue and collaboration addressing power dynamics, communication styles, and shared strategic focus.
Integrate youth and adult leadership into organizational culture ensuring engagement is not symbolic - but built into the way the organization operates.
Whether aligning a board, designing a policy plan, or strengthening community governance, we architect the systems that allow every generation to lead with intention.
Why It Works
Intergenerational leadership operates in the same environment organizations do: evolving communities, shifting expectations, multiple communication styles, and complex power dynamics.
Our approach works because it transforms these pressures into a strategic system you can depend on: a way of structuring leadership that is intentional, aligned, and built for shared influence. You learn how to design roles with clarity, navigate generational differences with purpose, and build decision-making cultures that hold up under real-world complexity.
Unlike traditional engagement efforts, we don’t rely on performative inclusion or symbolic gestures. We redesign your leadership architecture - the structures that support trust, accountability, and long-term organizational resilience.
This isn’t about filling a seat or checking an age box. It’s about building systems where every generation strengthens the whole - where collaboration is strategic, not situational.
This isn’t community outreach. It’s intergenerational transformation.
Why It Matters
17%
of nonprofit board members are under 40 - showing a huge gap in age diversity and engagement.
49%
of nonprofits say their boards don’t have the right board members to establish trust with communities they serve.
25%
Multigenerational teams can show 25% higher engagement compared with less age-diverse counterparts.
65%
of managers say age diversity and engagement strengthens innovation and competitive performance.
Case Study: The Forbes Funds Amplifys Impact Through Intergenerational Leadership
“If there is any type of organization out there, whether non-profit, for-profit, government, etc., that wants to think specifically about what it means to value and engage and activate youth and a youth-focused lens in their work, Queenside Ventures provides the tangible fruits of that and leans into it for a more transformative nature of work.”
-Olivia Benson, COO, The Forbes Funds