Youth Venture Canada
Youth Venture Canada
SummaryThis project provides support to build a youth-led project, seed grants to launch it, as well as online support. Overall, we assist youth to develop their projects in order to adress social changes.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
We offer youth an opportunity to have a first experience of social entrepreneurship. We beileve that every youth is a changemaker, and we want to give them the support to create their own project, their own solution to a social problem. Youth are invited to create a project in diverse domains: arts, environment, education, citizen engagement, sports, etc. Through the online program, every youth in Canada is welcome to become a Venturer!
Activities
YV supports youth to create a project that benefits 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 project.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $25
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $25 . The original project funding goal was $1,000.
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
Project Message
Youth have great ideas on how to make this world a better world. Not only do they have ideas, they have the energy to make these ideas happen! YV support their actions to concretize these great ideas.
- Nicolina Farella, Youth Venture Canada Representative
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Nicolina Farella
Youth Venture Canada Representative
205 Richmond Street West
Suite 601
Toronto, Ontario M5V 1V3
Canada
5148060388
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
1700 North Moore Street, Suite 2000
Arlington,
VA
22209
United States
703-527-8300
http://www.ashoka.org
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Canada
and can also be found under 
Education.
For more information about Canada, read the Human Development Report on Canada or the Wikipedia entry for Canada.
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 January 2, 2008
