Whether in conjunction with Team Revolution, or the Midtown Community Court, help create and teach workshops for career development and/or social entrepreneurship. Could graphic design, editing, or finance skills save a kid from the projects or help them create the next social venture project? It’s probably worth donating an hour or two every once in a while to find out.
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14 responses so far ↓
1 Elizabeth Foughty // Apr 2, 2008 at 11:44 am
I work with an organize called BUILD that does in the Silicon Valley area…it works great b/c of all the VC’s. Maybe we could collaborate?
2 mikekarnj // Apr 2, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Idea Village in New Orleans is another organization that can assist and help.
3 S. Ross // Apr 7, 2008 at 11:57 am
Helping kids figure out how to make a difference in the world needs to start at a very early age. Just like ADB, they need ways to understand how to get involved in causes that can have a positive impact. Teach them basic skills around organizing friends and raising money to help others will be worth the effort. Who going to lead non profits in the future?
4 l.hinkson // Apr 15, 2008 at 8:30 am
i work at a museum in new york and was thinking last fall about how i couldn’t even be in new york let alone working in the arts if i hadn’t had great mentors teaching me how to write cover letters and interview. i would love to help make this project happen for lower income or public school ny youths through career counseling/cover letter proofing/interview skill developing ect. how can we expect the next generation to get to where they want to get going if they don’t have some mentors to help them?
5 Michael Karnjanaprakorn // Apr 19, 2008 at 12:37 pm
This is my favorite idea so far. Let’s make this one happen!
6 Less Voting, More Action Projects // Apr 21, 2008 at 8:42 am
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7 Cristina // May 29, 2008 at 9:17 am
2 good resources:
Ecko Enterprises
http://swearercenter.brown.edu/whatwedo/social.html
8 Youth and Causes « Social Innovation Projects // Jul 11, 2008 at 10:26 pm
[...] I cite this to make the case that social entrepreneurship and social innovation is cool. Will this be then the decade of the birth of SI - with many categories and many takes on the way to get involved. Whats is ofcourse symptomatic of the movement is the belief that the energy and motive exists - what is needed is a channel. And so this group even have educating kids for social entrepreneurship - see this. [...]
9 dan // Jul 30, 2008 at 2:07 am
oh hi.
im dan from idea!s (www.ideals0-creatives.com), we’re a philippine based social enterprise that specializes in social design/communications. we’re based here in the philippines but we’ve done stuff for nonprofits/dev orgs fron abroad too. 
il be happy to help in this initiative of yours. I know it will be a bit difiicult cuz we’re overseas but yea, if you have new stuff to share i also blog at osocio.org so maybe i can help spread the word.
we also did a video promoting young social entrepreneurship for GKP. here’s the link the vid - http://www.vimeo.com/431621
would really love to help. yey!
10 dan // Jul 30, 2008 at 2:08 am
oh sorry, that’s http://www.ideals-creatives.com
11 Dev // Aug 7, 2008 at 9:22 am
I saw this post and think we might have a useful resource for you. Check out our guidebook for young social entrepreneurs at: http://ysei.org/?q=node/18
We manage this program to support young social entrepreneurs in South and East Asia.
12 Robin // Aug 19, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Junior Achievement works in schools with students in grades K-12 and provides hands-on education in financial literacy, entrepreneurship and workforce readiness…JA is worldwide as well
13 Micheál // Aug 28, 2008 at 6:23 am
Hello, this sounds so great.
Ye may know about this but this link may be helpful
http://www.otesha.ca/
It seems wondeful and have heard from people involved that it is a great experience for all.
14 Leah Marshall // Oct 4, 2008 at 9:32 am
There’s a fantastic program in Virginia callled The Phoenix Project, which teaches Virigina college students the fundamentals of social enterprise and then links those students with local community leaders to solve existing problems in Virginia neighborhoods.
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