With support from the Starbucks(TM) Shared Planet(TM) Youth Action Grants program, 20 youth-led initiatives in 12 countries will expand the impact of their social change work. The grants, ranging from US$7,500-$10,000, will support youth-led projects such as efforts to influence the legislative agenda in Kenya, equip disadvantaged women in the Philippines with income-generating skills, and [...]
Ketan Deshpande, a third year engineering student at a city college in India, has become the youngest Indian to join the ranks of the Paragon 100 [...]
Join the Movement!! Join YSEC and other youth-led organizations in the city like Manifesto, Schools Without Borders, and Grassroots Youth Collaborative, among others, by taking up residence at the Manifesto Community Projects Space at 358 Dufferin St. at Queen. You will get the chance to work amongst some of the city’s most innovative youth artists, entrepreneurs, community developers [...]
A social entrepreneur recognises a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organise, create, and manage a venture to forge social change. The first international conference on social entrepreneurship was held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences recently in Mumbai, India.
Read more about the event here. [...]
Do you have a Vital Idea for change? Check out Toronto Community Foundation’s Vital Ideas grant!
The Toronto Community Foundation provides a simple, powerful, and highly personal approach to giving. The Foundation works with individuals, families, charitable organizations and businesses to connect philanthropy to community needs .
They’d like to see more applications from not-for-profits in Toronto [...]
A video exposing the flawed system that we live in and the impacts it has on [...]