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How 3 Companies are Closing the Skills Gap for Youth in the U.S.
At IYF, we know that too many young people have inadequate access to opportunities to learn, grow, and hone their skills. This month, the Business Roundtable released Work in Progress: How CEOs Are...
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Trainers Return for Baltimore Summer Skill-Builders
On June 20, a sunny Tuesday, 10 Passport to Success® trainers spent the day at the Family League of Baltimore offices with three IYF Master PTS Trainers. During the school year, these men and women are...
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Learning for Life: 2016 IYF Annual Report
Despite a widening skills gap and the ever-changing demands of the labor market, young people today remain optimistic. Inspired by the future possibilities but firmly grounded in the reality of the...
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The 2017 Global Youth Wellbeing Index Launches
While the world is seeing the largest youth cohort in history, a lack of youth-centric data has left opportunities unfulfilled and too many young people's potential unrealized. The 2017 Global Youth...
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How to Understand & Advance Youth Wellbeing
Being young has never been easy, and lack of opportunity makes this critical transitional time even more challenging for too many of today’s 1.8 billion 15 to 29-year-olds. Mounting stress, persistent...
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To Solve Hunger, Start with Ending Food Waste
This blog post is part of a series that explores the role of IYF’s YouthActionNet® fellows in advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Every day young people around the world remind us...
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5 Ways to Advance Youth Economic Opportunities
Throughout the world, young people contribute their ideas and energy by starting businesses, leading organizations, volunteering, and addressing some of the biggest global problems. However, far too...
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Explore the 2017 Global Youth Wellbeing Index Website
While youth demonstrate their power and promise every day, for too long a lack of cohesive youth-centric data has created challenges and barriers to progress. Launched in September, the 2017 Global...
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5 Recommendations for Reconnecting Youth in Baltimore & Beyond
Young people possess great potential, but when they become disconnected from school, work, and other vital areas of life, this potential too often goes untapped. Opportunity youth—young people not...
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Young Researchers in Baltimore Provide Insights into Opportunity Youth...
To foster trust and facilitate open dialogue with youth, it's imperative to engage them as partners. In 2017, the Annie E. Casey Foundation enlisted seven young adult leaders from Baltimore as...
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Changing the Narrative of Fatherhood, with New IYF Board Member Sheldon Smith
In January, IYF welcomed Sheldon Smith to our board of directors. Smith is the founder and director of The Dovetail Project, a Chicago-based organization that, since 2010, has provided training,...
View ArticleBringing Lessons From Brazil to New Orleans
Video of Bringing Lessons From Brazil to New OrleansBringing Lessons From Brazil to New OrleansIYF-February 9, 2018- Posted In LivelihoodsHow can movement-based training help nurture greater...
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At-Risk Youth Learn to Navigate Life on the Open Ocean
Michael Long, 26, is the founder and executive director of SailFuture, a Florida-based organization that works with at-risk youth, many of whom are crossing over from the juvenile justice system to the...
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New Horizons
CountriesUnited StatesRegionNorth AmericaActive No Longer Active Program ImageBodyLaunched in 2018, New Horizons: Life Skills Empowering Nashville Youth is a three-year initiative of the International...
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Rodan + Fields Hurricane
CountriesUnited StatesRegionNorth AmericaActive No Longer Active Program ImageBodyCreated by Rodan + Fields and the International Youth Foundation in response to hurricanes that damaged or devastated...
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TK Foundation Mexico: Creating Opportunities for Youth in the Hospitality Sector
CountriesMexicoUnited StatesRegionLatin America & the CaribbeanNorth AmericaProfessional FieldHospitalityActive No Longer Active Program ImageBodyPartnering with the TK Foundation, the...
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