Youth Venture India

Youth venture India

Summary

Youth Venture is a global movement that inspires, invests, and supports young people to lead social change. project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

A staggering 51 percent of India's population of 1.1 billion people are under 25 and two-thirds under 35. It is important to create opportunities and platforms for these young people to realize their potential to create change. Young people are our most powerful engine for social impact and we have the responsibility to ensure that they are equipped with the knowledge, skills and exposure to innovatively tackle the most pressing social issues.

Activities

Ashoka's Youth Venture helps young people define their social change idea and create an action plan for it through workshops and capacity building. The ideas are presented to other social Changemakers and teams receive funding to launch their idea.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $2,193
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $47,807
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

The progress of a country depends on the number of Changemakers thrown up by the system. Youth Venture wants to drastically increase the number of young people who live the experience of being a Changemaker.

Project Message

Youth will make the difference to our country in the future and to change youth mentality and to encourage social entrepreneurship and responsibility in youth is one of the core tenets of YV.
- Alok Vajpeyi, Ashoka's Youth Venture Investor

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Vipin T.
Program Intrepreneur
Flat 7, Candelar Building 26, St. John Baptist Rd
Bandra West
Mumbai, Maharashtra 400050
India
919821877975
Email:

Project Sponsor

Youth Venture Inc

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 IndiaIndia and can also be found under EducationEducation.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 26, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 28, 2007

Latest Update from the Field

New Year, New Group of Changemakers

By Vipin T. - Director, January 26, 2010 11:44 AM

Krithika shares her journey as a ChangemakerYouth Venture OutreachGroup activity at a Youth Venture workshop
For Youth Venture India 2010 has seen new additions to the Community of Changemakers. Over the last few months the Youth Venture India Team has reached out to young people and invited them to apply for the Youth Venture Fellowship. At colleges, organizations and public events we asked young people about the issues they are passionate about and what they’re willing to do about it. Fifty young people have started ideating and designing a project on an issue they wish to lead change in. Better yet, the workshops that enable this process are being led by a group of seven young individuals who have been through this experience and are running Ventures of their own.

The opportunity for Changemakers from previous years to facilitate the workshops has been possible through the initiative taken up by the alumni from previous cycles. Venturers from the past two years organized a group meet where they got together and discussed their interest to stay involved and engaged with each other and the program. At Youth Venture we are keen to keep this momentum going and encourage Venturers to take up leadership positions within the program. Facilitation is one such opportunity and this will be extended to other roles as well.

Currently, our energy is focused on this new group of fifty young individuals who are daring to dream and chasing it in reality. You can support us by providing resources that will enable these young individuals to make change happen.

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