Focus Futures Foundation is a teen-led initiative founded by Azaniya Genda while she was a 10th-grade student at South Hagerstown High School. The Foundation was created to help teenagers develop the confidence, skills, and real-world experience to become effective leaders. Through workshops, educational resources, speaking opportunities, mentoring, and hands-on leadership experiences, we equip young people to discover their potential and lead with purpose.

Our Leadership Multiplication Model

At the heart of Focus Futures Foundation is a simple idea: teenagers develop other teenagers into leaders who develop more leaders.

We encourage young people to look around their schools and communities, identify a need, start an initiative or organization to address that need, and invite their friends to help lead it. It does not have to require a lot of money or start as a large organization. It can begin with one teenager, one idea, and a willingness to make a difference.

As their friends gain leadership experience, they are encouraged to do the same: identify another need, start something meaningful, invite other young people to participate, and develop them as leaders. In this way, leadership continues to multiply from one teenager to another.

Focus Futures Foundation also connects teenagers who are already leading organizations, projects, programs, clubs, and community initiatives. By bringing these young leaders together, we are building a network and movement of teenagers who learn from one another, support one another, and develop more young leaders.

Our Vision

Our vision is not simply to develop individual teen leaders. It is to create a continuous cycle of leadership multiplication in which young people lead, help their friends lead, and inspire those friends to develop even more leaders.

One teenager. One need. One initiative. More leaders.

Our mission

Focused Futures Foundation exists as a student-led initiative where young people intentionally develop other young people into leaders who develop more leaders, creating a continuous cycle of positive influence that transforms schools and communities.