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Youth Development

Alnoba offers immersive, outdoor-based youth development for educators and youth-serving organizations that foster leadership, resilience, and social-emotional growth. Fully customizable to achieve your goals, our expert-facilitated, adventure-driven programs help youth build critical life skills while supporting your mission to develop confident, collaborative, and self-aware leaders.

Many programs are offered at reduced or no-cost to nonprofit, youth, and community organizations to ensure that our resources serve the public good.

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Youth Development

Empowering the Next Generation Through Outdoor Youth Leadership Programs and SEL

Our youth leadership programs are a powerful resource to support social-emotional learning, leadership development, and team building. Facilitated by experts, these experiences equip youth with critical life skills while reinforcing the values of resilience, collaboration, and personal growth.

We host close to 1,000 youths from Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan and Seacoast, NH each year. By focusing on youth as early as elementary school, we believe we can help create an expectation of success that will carry these young people far, thus building strong leaders into the next generation.

Key Features

  • Adventure-based team building for leadership growth
  • Strengthening social-emotional learning (SEL) in youth
  • Goal-setting programs that inspire action
  • Outdoor & experiential learning as a catalyst for change

Why Partner with Alnoba?

  • Customizable youth development programs designed to align with your organization’s mission and student development goals
  • Expert facilitators who create safe, inclusive spaces for learning, self-discovery, and peer connection
  • Proven methodologies that reinforce leadership, resilience, and social responsibility in the next generation

Grounded in Innovation and Learning

Alnoba serves as a living classroom for developing and piloting curriculum and educational tools that support youth leadership and collaboration. Our programs continuously refine leadership frameworks through hands-on facilitation, reflection, and real-world application. Guided by our nonprofit mission, we contribute these learnings to broader youth development best practices, with impact that extends well beyond the property.

Special Options

High Ropes Course

Hiking & Nature Exploration

Mindful Additions

Land & Water Initiatives

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Providing the opportunity to have students be outside of their comfort zones continues to be the most impactful part of this trip. Whether it's doing a group activity, climbing, or just being outdoors, everyone responds positively to being just a bit uncomfortable. The kids would not stop talking about how next year, they will try to go higher on an element or retry one with a different approach.

Bianca CamachoSquashBusters Providence
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The SEL program Alnoba/Pinnacle was beautiful and one the Next community will always remember. We received positive feedback from our staff and students about the days. All of the activities were enjoyable and well put together, the ropes courses were exhilarating and provided opportunities for everyone to communicate in a vulnerable and authentic way. We were able to step outside our comfort zones while also having fun. We are so excited to return!!!

Amy M., School CounselorNext Charter School
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When we first thought about visiting Alnoba we had a Zoom meeting with Sydni, and she was the most incredible liaison for this process, she was patient, and unbelievably flexible and friendly. She helped plan our recent visit, and helped us to dream bigger with another visit in the spring to help book-end our school year setting goals in the fall, and ropes course in the spring to show off how much we have grown, and how much confidence we have garnered. I can't thank you enough for the opportunity to bring our kids here, it was amazing!

Kelly T.Lincoln Akerman School
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It was an exceptional time at Alnoba. Our young actors and their parents were so very inspired by the stunning , beautiful and rich in common vision setting...helped us to deepen our communities commitment to social justice through the theater . Your folks took good care of us with much consideration to our needs and provided generous hospitality the entire time.

Anna SmulowitzDirector, Terezin Project

Our Team

Scott Sanders

Executive Vice President, Pinnacle

Drawing on his background as an Army veteran and executive law enforcement leader, Scott brings a unique blend of global leadership expertise, a passion for organizational development, and a commitment to service to his role.

Sydni Collier

Sydni Collier

Director of Leadership Programs, Alnoba

With deep experience in nonprofit program leadership and a strong academic foundation in social research and bias studies, Sydni designs and delivers transformative experiential learning programs for youth and leadership teams.

Colin Clark

Colin Clark

Organizational Advisor, Pinnacle

With an MBA in organizational development and a background ranging from real estate to small business, Colin leverages decades of experience to train, coach, and facilitate leadership and team development for clients including Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and institutions like the World Bank and Harvard.

Bring Transformational Youth Programs to Your School or Organization

Connect with us to learn how Alnoba’s customized, outdoor-based experiences can support your goals for youth leadership, SEL, and personal growth. Our team will help you design a youth development program that inspires lasting impact.

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