Mountaintop International

Mountaintop works toward a future where every community has the collective moral leadership to solve its own problems in order to build a just, loving, and peaceful world for all. In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who dedicated his life to building a courageous community that would change the consciousness of a nation, Mountaintop cultivates transformational locally-rooted leadership, supports youth empowerment, and sustainably strengthens local institutions in communities worldwide where success too often means leaving and not coming back. Mountaintop's first program is a paid, one-year, full-time fellowship in partnership with Harvard faculty for exceptional leaders under the age of 30 to stay in or return to their home communities and strengthen collective leadership in rural and underserved communities in the Global South.