YSEC was founded by six individuals: Anshula, Assaf, Eyal, Lulwa, Maya and Nogah, who came together to address common frustrations felt by young organizers trying to improve the world. Within our individual experiences, we saw that every other youth group we met faced the same hardships as we had faced: sparse professional guidance, no community of peers or business education, team troubles, little access to funding, lack of legitimacy, and so on.
We soon realized these hardships were systematic; they arose from a lack of supportive infrastructure.The Young Social Entrepreneurs of Canada was our response to this.
Drawing on the lessons learned from our parent organization, Project Equity and other projects we were involved in, we set out to research and reach out to youth-led initiatives and find out what were the biggest challenges and roadblocks they faced.
The resulting program that we have developed is our answer to this year and a half of development and planning. Our goal is to support youth organizers and youth-led groups in creating social enterprises. Our vision is to make social change a viable career option for extraordinary youth.