2025 proved to be our most impactful year yet, with highlights including: 526 Alumni and Fellows, 97% of whom have translated their Surge experience into expanded leadership and community impact; 8 program cities; and 3 million-plus students served.
Join us in celebrating our accomplishments and recommitting to the work ahead.
The Surge Institute is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to educate and develop leaders of color who create transformative change for young people, their families, and our broader communities.
We support people who profoundly and directly affect positive change in the world. We elevate leaders of color in educational spaces. Their ideas and gifts, coupled with access, resources, and encouragement, transform the people around them. Students, families, and whole communities realize their potential. There’s no limit to the possibilities.
Engage with this movement and become an agent of change.
Surge was built by and for communities of color and designed to empower, educate and elevate our leaders in the education systems serving our communities. Our goal is to serve 5,000 leaders by 2030.
This work does not happen in silos. The Surge program suite has created a sprawling network of change-makers collectively building a brighter future for our youth.
We are a megaphone for our people. Continued impact and heightened influence are the hallmarks of a true movement toward systemic change.