Power of Youth (POY)
The Power of Youth is a network dedicated to supporting game-changing entrepreneurs by helping them be seen and be heard across the globe. POY attracts high level sponsors and works with partner organisations around the world to create opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors to connect, do business, learn and grow.
- Affiliation
- NGO
- Date of Establishment
- 2011
- Contact No.
- n/a
- Address
Adam Purvis,Director 4/2 Northumberland Place, Edinburgh, EH3 6LQ United Kingdom
- Email Address
- adam@power-of-youth.org
- Website
- http://www.power-of-youth.org/
1. Source of funding
Chinese Government (Tianjin), Confucius Institute for Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University, British Council, EU Commission
2. Mission and Objectives
Power Of Youth is looking to harness the power and optimism of young business leaders and social entrepreneurs who have the fire and drive within them to make a difference to the world and inspire a generation.
1. Creating opportunities for young entreprenuers from the EU, China and India to collaborate and take their own successful brands to new markets and the global stage.
2.Building a community that offers knowledge, funding and inspiration from the world’s most talented young entrepreneurs, and work with the next generation of leaders to turn more innovative ideas into action.
3. Bringing together the best young proven entrepreneurs from the EU and China to develop innovative social business enterprises. Their prime focus will be to inspire and financially sustain other softer programs developed between the youth of the EU and China
3. Areas of work relating to youth employment
youth entrepreneurship
4. Partners and areas of partnerships
Anderson Strathern Solicitors, All-China Youth Federation, China-Britain Business Council, Chartered Society of Designers, China Guanghua Foundation, Entrepreneurial Spark, European Business Review, 2012 EU-China Year of Youth, Ignite Your Brand, Junior Achievement Young Enterprise, One Young World, UniPropitia
5. Potential or existing partnership with the ILO
6. Successful youth employment interventions
POY Fellows: they are entrepreneurial role models that actively work with POY to support its goals.
Raising the awareness of youth social entrepreneurship through media and events: running 7 summits before 31st March 2014 in at least three continents, producing videos and magazines, participation in TEDx Paris in February 2012
Create 2 International Youth Investment Funds: one will focus on inter-community investment and the other on an open-investment platform for any aspiring young entrepreneur.
Lobby for policies favorable to youth social entrepreneurs.