Youth Venture United States
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Summary
Youth Venture® leads an international community of young people who are powerful changemakers. It inspires and invests in them to create and launch own sustainable ventures benefiting communities.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Youth Venture gives young people the support and credibility to be successful changemakers, providing opportunities for leadership and personal development. Of Venturers, 31% are from low-income communities, 33% are from predominantly minority communities, yet all have the potential to launch social ventures, given the right support and encouragement.
Activities
YV supports youth by helping them address social issues in their communities. Youth form teams and create sustainable action plans that must be approved by a panel. Then, they receive seed money and technical support to start their Venture Team.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $40,565
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $9,435
Total Funding Goal: $50,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
YV is dramatically increasing the proportion of changemakers in the world by effectively reaching youth and providing them the opportunity to see their own potential, develop skills, and be taken seriously, creating an everyone a changemaker world.
Project Message
“The critical factor for success of any human grouping - be it a company or a country - will be the proportion of changemakers it has to develop new ideas, take initiative and lead.”
- Bill Drayton, Founder of Ashoka and Youth Venture
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Catherine Boran
1700 N Moore Street
Suite 2000
Arlington, Virginia 22209
United States
7036008201
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Youth Venture
1700 N Moore Street Suite 2000
Arlington,
Virginia
22209
United States
703-600-8201
http://www.youthventure.org
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
United States
and can also be found under 
Education.
For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 17, 2007
Latest Update from the Field
An exciting first Quarter
By Romina Laouri - Global Fellowship Manager, May 13, 2009 11:07 AM
For the third consecutive year, Ashoka's Youth Venture® and Staples Foundation for Learning® are proud to sponsor the Staples Youth Social Entrepreneur Competition that was open to all Youth Venture teams from around the world. Our finalists were just recently selected and they are from: Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Thailand and U.S.A. Check out the finalists and their projects. Our great team of judges will now select the five winning teams that will be flown to Boston to participate in the National YV Summit and attend the YSE Award Ceremony. At the ceremony, one team will be presented the Excellence Award, along with a prize worth $5,000! The four remaining teams will each receive a $500 cash award. The winning teams will also receive an array of additional prizes.
The Youth Venture team is also planning our second National YV Summit which is taking at the end of June, in Boston. Youth Venture has teamed up with Boston University, MIT and Harvard who are each hosting different activities throughout a four-day educational and fun gathering of more than 150+ young people from all over the US and around the world.
We have an exciting summer ahead of us so stay tuned!
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