Ashoka Youth Venture Community Panel
Brower Center - Goldman Theatre
2150 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
10am - 3pm
Youth teams will present their social ventures to a panel of local community members who will decide if they are ready to both receive up to $1,000 in seed funding and join the global Youth Venture Community.
The youth teams are incubating projects addressing a wide-range of issues: improving relations between youth and police in Oakland, CA; increasing access to fresh produce in West Oakland, CA; using hip hop to spread anti-violence messages; and adopting rural schools in the developing world.
photo: Youth Venture Team competing for the prize in Southern Indiana
At this event, attendees will also learn about a new partnership between The Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative and Ashoka Youth Venture. The partnership will kick off this fall.
The New Leaders Initiative cultivates and supports bold environmental youth leadership and houses the Brower Youth Awards. Ashoka Youth Venture inspires and invests in teams of young people (aged 12-20) as they start and lead their own sustainable social ventures, connecting them into a powerful global network.
For more info about the Brower Youth Awards check out my previous posts about the Awards here. For more info about Ashoka check out these previous posts.
To RSVP for this free March 9 event go here.
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