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.

Do you have questions about starting or maintaining your venture? Have you been successful at running your own venture and can give some advice? Come ask questions, get answers and share advice with other GenV.net users on Tues June 2 in the GenV.net chat room.


Where : the GenV.net chat room. You can get there by clicking the "chat" link listed under the member options or by clicking here
When : Tuesday June 2 at 7pm EST. (4pm PST)

The chat room will allow you to instantly communicate with GenV users. You can share ideas and get feedback from others or simply get to know the GenV community better.

Hope to chat with you soon!

Questions? Contact YV_Katie

Top 10 Reasons to Come to the National Youth Venture Summit

1. Meet other Changemakers from around the United States and world.
2. Build skills to strengthen your Venture and leadership abilities.
3. Meet and learn from Ashoka Fellows.
4. Strengthen your connection to Youth Venture and the global movement.
5. Identify ways collaborate with other Venturers on projects.
6. Meet and get to know Youth Venture staff.
7. Present your own workshop at the Summit.
8. Learn about what other Venturers are doing to change their community.
9. Explore the campuses of Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard.
10. It’s a lot of fun!

Go to the Summit Page for more details.

Venture at New York University Awarded $10,000

For three years, Youth Venture has partnered with NYU’s Catherine B. Reynolds Program for Social Entrepreneurship to bring to undergraduate students the “Be A Changemaker” Challenge. Interested students from any NYU undergraduate school -in teams of two or more- outline their social venture idea by completing and submitting an Action Plan. Each team that successfully completes an Action Plan with advising from Youth Venture, receives $1000 in seed-funding and competes for a $10,000 grand award.

This year the recipient of the $10,000 award is the First Aid Comedy Brigade.

The First Aid Comedy Brigade, led by Zach Lee, a sophomore at Steinhardt, is an organization of comedy improvisation troupes that aims to be the first student-run movement to provide free and interactive shows for patients of children’s hospitals around the nation. Currently operating solely in New York City, the group plans for official expansion this September.

The First Aid Comedy Brigade seeks to expand to other comedy groups at Universities across the United States. Each new Brigade will receive the same materials (t-shirts, basic set design, etc.), thereby unifying all chapters across the country in a franchise model, bringing the trusted formula and name to each college and partner hospital across the country.

For more info about The First Aid Comedy Brigade check otu their profile http://www.genv.net/en-us/team/first_aid_comedy_brigade

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Support the Movement. Invite Your Friends. For the month of March GenV.net is holding a contest to see who can invite the most friends to join the global movement of young changemakers. It’s easy. Invite friends, earn points, win Money! Learn How you could win $50 for inviting your friends to join GenV.net Now We want to know what you think about GenV.net! What changes do you want to see? what do you like? What can we do to make GenV better represent you? Fill out this quick and easy survey and be entered in a random drawing to win a $25 Visa Gift Card. Click Here to take the survey Now! Looking for Grant opportunities? Check out these two great links explore some of the great opportunities to earn more money for your venture team! GenV.net grant forum socialedge.org list of grants Best Buy Puts $1 Million in the Hands of Teens! Best Buy wants to give teenagers the power to make our world a better place, and starting on February 2nd you will be given the opportunity to help decide where $1 million in donations goes! Learn How you can help here What do you think about the GenV Weekly Let us know what you like, don’t like or what you would like to see in the Genv Weekly.We want to know what you think! share your thoughts here Fantastic Blogs and forums Check out these new topic from genv.net members The Film Industry Divine Bradley: Atlanta YV/Nike Event Paradox of Our Time Social Ventures & Perseverance

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