Welcome to The Pangaea Project!

Our Mission

By engaging youth from underserved neighborhoods in local and international service-learning projects, The Pangaea Project promotes the development of leadership skills, increases global awareness, and fosters a commitment to work towards social change, profoundly transforming both the participants and their communities.

To Our Supporters:

Since its founding in 2003 by Deb Delman and Stephanie Tolk, The Pangaea Project has remained dedicated to its mission. While 2011 was another strong year for Pangaea programmatically, from a fund raising perspective it was very challenging. Without sufficient funds to ensure the continuation of the program in 2012, the Board made a difficult decision: Pangaea will not offer World Class, nor will it provide a summer international or domestic Intercultural Inspiration program in 2012. However, The Pangaea Project's current challenges must not overshadow very real accomplishments. Over six years of programming nearly 200 disadvantaged Portland youth have discovered a wider world and their own potential to be leaders in it. Thousands of community members locally, nationally and internationally have been impacted by Pangaea youth through their work in the community, educational presentations and the leadership roles they assumed. This is just the beginning as their positive impact will increase with time.

The Board remains committed to Pangaea's mission and will explore ways to revitalize Pangaea's core assets. We welcome your ideas, advice and resources as well.

The Pangaea Project Board of Directors

Our Work

Currently, The Pangaea Project is dedicating its resources to providing program graduates with internship opportunities at local community organizations. Placements are intentionally intensive and challenging in order to create real growth within participants as individuals, and to have a deep impact on the community in which they become involved.

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with staff in Ecuador and Thailand, The Pangaea Project offered a unique model of education that provided a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for low-income and high-risk youth to learn about local and global issues related to social justice and social change. The Pangaea Project model was intentionally designed to build leadership skills and attributes with an emphasis on the importance of global perspective through the lenses of social justice and social change.

Specifically, the leadership skills The Pangaea Project worked with youth to cultivate include the ability to speak publicly; effective communication and listening; the capacity to make and keep commitments; the ability to collaborate and work as a member of a team; and concrete knowledge about important local and global issues. The Pangaea Project also fostered leadership attributes including self-confidence, self-worth, and self-efficacy.

Each Pangaea Project student graduated from our program empowered by their own changemaking impacts, and with an invigorated sense of possibility.

To learn more specifics about our program, click here