WANT Change
Welcome to WANT Change! Our generation is the first for which community service is part of our daily lives. Some of us are part of faith-based youth groups, others work on school-sponsored projects, but we all aspire to make the world a better place. WANT Change recognizes and celebrates this unique aspect of teen life today.

Tell us what you are doing to make a difference in the world. Each month, we’ll celebrate a “WANT Change Maker”, a group or individual making the world a better place with the winner receiving a WANT Change certificate and a $50 Nike gift card.

Send us an article about your mission trip, community outreach program, or other volunteer activity. We’ll feature your article in the WANT Change section of WANT and enter you in the monthly contest.

We can change the world!

It’s All About the Jelly

By Austin Graham The Roar (Leander, Texas) The student council has just begun their “Peanut Butter and Jelly Competition.” They are…

By Deanna Stone The Crown (Wilmette, Illinois) Service and giving back to those in need are valuable experiences in life. The skills…

By Alexis Motschall The Tower (Grosse Pointe, Michigan) “This isn’t normal” and “It’s not typical.” These were the two phrases…

By Claire Yeamans and Mackenzie Harrell The Tower (Grosse Pointe, Michigan) Cass Community Social Services What is it? Cass Community…

Photographs and text by: Kaitlyn Hankard Periscope (Carlisle, Pennsylvania) You may have seen the jars decorated with the words “Adopt…

By Lindsey Clark The Tower (Grosse Pointe, Michigan) To raise money to pay their national club fee, The National Art Honor…

By Deanna Stone The Crown (Wilmette, Illinois) Service and giving back to those in need are valuable experiences in life. The…

By Jessica Phillips Hoof Print, (McDonough, Georgia) The members of the Spanish Honor Society can be seen walking around the school…

By Austin Graham The Roar (Leander, Texas) When some people go to the University of Texas (UT) games, they plan…

By Vikram Nallakrishnan CatlinSpeak (Portland, Oregon) Over Winterim and Spring Break, a group of 14 Catlin Gabel Upper School including myself…