Youth Alliance
A Collective Approach to Empowering Youth
The Youth Alliance is a community of funders, practitioners and investors committed to tackling youth challenges through collective action.
By employing a systemic and holistic approach, alliance members initiate co-investments, share knowledge, and advocate for systemic change.
Joining the Youth Alliance positions organisations as pioneers within a systemic change initiative, placing them at the forefront of collaborative models that have the potential to inspire the impact sector.
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Challenge
To define the scope of the Youth Alliance, Ashoka, Impact Europe, and Schneider Electric Foundation surveyed their members - acting as field actors or funders and investors -, with the goal of mapping systemic gaps and barriers to empowering disadvantaged youth and supporting youth social entrepreneurship.
In addition, the core team consulted existing literature and research to pinpoint opportunities that could maximise the impact of the Youth Alliance.
It is crucial to acknowledge that the systemic barriers in both sectors are highly diverse; however, a curated selection was made, recognising that all these barriers interact with each other in the field.
Solution
In response to identified gaps and barriers, the Youth Alliance has devised a strategy harnessing the collaborative strength of the group across three pillars: co-investing in projects, sharing knowledge within the alliance and the broader ecosystem, and leveraging a collective voice for advocacy.
The 2024 roadmap focuses on solidifying the Youth Alliance, unlocking EU funding, and achieving initial milestones in each pillar, such as initiating co-investments, publishing a white paper, and promoting the alliance at events.
Regular meetings every six weeks allow members to actively drive and discuss progress on these initiatives.
Join the Movement!
While we already have a small and engaged group of members with an impressive track record in the sector, we are actively welcoming new participants to join the Youth Alliance. Membership in the Youth Alliance offers a range of benefits, from thought leadership opportunities to facilitating co-investments.
To ensure an engaged and collaborative community, we have established membership criteria, including regular attendance at meetups and an annual commitment to contribute financially or non-financially to one of the alliance's activities.
Given the alliance's primary objective of fostering co-investments among members, we have also outlined specific criteria for the projects that members may submit.
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