Youth Venture

Now more than ever we need changemakers working to address social challenges like HIV/AIDS, global warming, natural disasters, poverty, access to education, and more. If you are age 13-18, you can help YV earn up to $250,000 to launch new ventures, build community, and expand the global movement of young changemakers by joining Best Buy’s @15 Change Exchange! Just visit http://www.at15.com/user/register to join and start earning points to allocate to YV at the end of the summer.

How it works:
Through the website (http://www.at15.com/) you complete various activities or challenges in order to rack up more points. You can register on the website and complete challenges at any point during the year. On certain weeks, you are allowed to take all the points you’ve earned and give them to the organization of your choice (in this case Youth Venture…of course). How much money YV eventually gets depends on the percentage of points we receive from you guys. Best Buy is giving away $250,000 in total. So if we get all points from every voter, that means YV will receive $250,000 (kind of impossible). But if we’re allotted 50 percent of the total points from voters, we get $125,000 (not too impossible).
What you can do to help YV:

In short, register for @15, muster up a lot of points, and then remember to give all your points to us during the voting weeks (July 15-30). That’s it. Pretty Simple, no?

Here’s a list of things that will earn you points on the site:

• 1500 points: Register and Create a Profile. One time registration only.
• 300 points: Nominate your school for a Teach@15 Award. Once per nomination period.
• 150 points: Refer-a-Friend Bonus (When you refer your friends and they sign up)
• 150 points:Take the IMO Survey. You can do this four times a year.
• 150 points: Featured Profile Bonus. For members featured on the homepage.
• 30 points: Answer the Question of the Moment. Once per question
• 15 points: Post in the Forums.
• 15 points: Games and Quizzes.
• 15 points: Vote for a school for the Teach@15 Award. Once per day.