The Belonging Manifesto · Since 2005

Belonging
is the point.

STOKED builds belonging for young people through movement and culture. An intergenerational chain, adults mentor coaches, coaches mentor youth, 21 years in the making. The sport is the on-ramp. Belonging is the destination.

The full story arrives August 31 · our 21st anniversary
21 Years
Since 2005
3 Generations
Adults · Coaches · Youth
Award-Winning
Nonprofit
A letter from the founder

We believe belonging is the point.

Loneliness is the disease. Belonging is the cure. The research finally caught up to what we have known for 21 years.

A generation is growing up more connected and more alone than any before it. Kids without a trusted adult. Young adults without a path. Grown men and women who look successful and feel like no one knows them. Disconnection does not discriminate.

We were built for this moment. We just did not wait for it.

Belonging is not something you are handed. It is built. Built through a lifestyle that gives you an identity, an identity that gives you a people, and a person who shows up long enough to change your life.

We build it through movement and culture. Snowboarding put kids on a mountain that was never meant for them. Skateboarding turned an empty street into a home. Surfing did it on the water. The sport was never the point. The belonging was.

So we carry that energy, come as you are, fall and get back up, the crew has your back, into the lives of the young people who need it most. And we open the gated worlds too, so belonging is never reserved for the people already inside.

This is the chain. Adults mentor coaches. Coaches mentor youth. Nobody ages out. Everybody moves up.

Three generations, connected by the same crisis, healed by the same cure. Movement is the mission, twice over. Young people in motion, and a movement they belong to.

We are not a charity you give to. We are a community you join. Because belonging is a two way cure, and the person who shows up to give it gets it back.

Twenty-one years in, this is not a new direction. It is who we have always been, said out loud, and built to scale.

Steve Larosiliere
Founder · STOKED · Since 2005
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Be part of the movement. No cost, no catch. Belonging is a two way cure, and the person who shows up to give it gets it back. Be first when the new chapter arrives August 31.

The new chapter arrives August 31 · the 21st anniversary
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