Youth Venture

Youth Venture’s vision is a worldwide culture of young people initiating positive, lasting change—leading to a dramatic growth of changemakers in every society. Youth Venture’s mission is to catalyze a global movement of young changemakers.

Imagine what a difference it would make in the strength and creativity of society if millions more people developed the self-confidence and the capacity to be changemakers during their adolescence. By launching a venture, young people learn the important skills of leadership, entrepreneurship, teamwork and empathy, as well as other practical skills as they form a team and go through the process of planning and running a social venture together.

In enabling this transformative experience for thousands of young people, Youth Venture is building a critical mass of young changemakers who are changing the world by redefining the youth years as a time of initiative and community leadership.

Youth Venture’s ultimate goal is a society-wide redefinition of the youth years. As more and more Venturers start social ventures in their communities, it will become the norm for young people to create positive social change. Once youth leadership becomes the norm, then society – young people and adults alike – will come to expect young people to be competent leaders of social change. In the future, the proportion of the population who are changemakers will jump dramatically, ultimately leading to our vision of everyone becoming a changemaker.