Imagine Nations - Investment Strategies for Youth
ImagineNations' youth investment strategy provides a framework to significantly expand the opportunities for millions of young adults, especially adolescent girls and young women, to gain access to employment and livelihood through various incentives, business coaching and/or capital for their entrepreneurial ideas.
- Affiliation
- NGO
- Date of Establishment
- 2007
- Contact No.
- +1 410 439 4800
- Address
ImagineNations® Group 221 Bay Front Road Pasadena, Maryland 21122
- Email Address
- info@imaginenations.org
- Website
- http://www.imaginenations.org/programs/investment_strategy.aspx
1. Source of funding
Member organizations, donor countries
2. Mission and Objectives
ImagineNations seeks to support and to build a menu of practical prospects for young people, providing them with the critical next step after they complete one of the many existing training and employability programs currently offered by youth organizations.
ImagineNations is developing a network of "access points" to opportunities - internships, apprenticeships, jobs, loan guarantees, capital and business coaching - for young people, ages 15-29. ImagineNations is adopting aspects of best practices and establishing national strategies for addressing the youth employment challenge in each of its pilot countries, including the establishment of investment funds and public/private partnerships in each country that will support and sustain their efforts. The global youth investment strategy focuses on a variety of financial opportunities for young entrepreneurs, as well as business training and skills development opportunities, tailored to pilot different programs in each country.
3. Areas of work relating to youth employment
youth entrepreneurship, youth employment policies, school-to-work transition, youth enterprise, skills for youth
4. Partners and areas of partnerships
Global Entreprenuership Programm, World Bank Group, Nike Foundation, First blue youth leaders, social entrepreneurs, thought leaders, investors, financial institutions, global brands, media, private corporations, non-government and civil society organizations
5. Existing or potential partnership with the ILO
BEKERJA (Youth Employment, Entrepreneurship and Investment Program in Indonesia)