Professional Skills
Starting a Venture might not only help your community, but it could also help you distinguish yourself on a college application or in a job interview. Starting and running a Venture can help you develop skills and gain experience in creative problem solving, business plan development, event planning, teamwork and team building, leadership, volunteer recruitment and management, and public speaking.
Influence within your community
By becoming a community leader at a young age, you will help pave the way for other youth changemakers. Your Venture and the Ventures of your peers can help change adult and youth perceptions of the expectations of young people and help everyone see youth as powerful agents of change.
Opportunity to lead
Being a Youth Venturer gives you the opportunity to gain the experience of having an idea, and of building and running a team. By having this experience, you know that you are powerful and that you can be a successful leader. If you want to see social change in your communities, then LEAD social change.
Opportunity to change your community
By seeing a problem in your community and working to solve it, you are positively affecting the lives of other individuals in your community. Your contribution might also cause a ripple effect by inspiring others to help those around them. In the words of Mahatma Ghandi, “You must be the change you want to see if the world.”