REPORT ON INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION

By:

Jamaica A. Molaga

AB Political Science 4A
Outline:

International Youth Foundation

Purpose of the Organization

Strategy and Approach

Funding and Partnerships

Projects/Achievements

International Youth Foundation

Founded in 1990, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) is a global non-profit

organization focusing on positive youth development.

IYF works with companies, foundations and civic organizations

Its programs are delivered through its network of 175 partner organizations in
more than 70 countries around the world.

Headquarters: Baltimore, USA

Purpose of the Organization

IYFs worldwide network of partner organizations has grown to 70 countries,

helping young people to shape their future through proven programs that tie education
to work, improve employability, and enable and inspire them to play a positive role in
their communities.
Mission:

The mission of the organization is to prepare young people to be healthy, productive,

and engaged citizens.

Vision:

IYF envisions a world where all young people achieve their full potential and shape the
future with power and confidence.

Strategy and Approach

IYF collaborates with business, governments and civil society organizations

It works through a worldwide network of youth-serving organizations

This global network reflects the belief that those closest to the challenges are
those best able to address them.

IYF takes an asset-based approach.

IYF uses a broad set of life skills and soft skills

Policy Context

Areas of Activity

Education & Employment: Preparing young people for the jobs employers are
looking to fill. With a demand-driven approach, our partnerships
and initiatives underscore life skills and technical/vocational training as
critical components of successful youth workforce development. In our library,
you can find more than 25 years' worth of learning on the topic through
 publications such as Getting Youth in the Door and Creating Opportunities for
Youth in Hospitality.

Entrepreneurship: Self-employment initiatives enable young people to build,

scale, and lead small and micro-enterprises. Whether it's our Build Your
Business curriculum in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, Young
Entrepreneurs in India, Youth Entrepreneurship Development in Palestine, or the
entrepreneurship component of an employability program like Zimbabwe: Works,
we're promoting self-employment as a vital opportunity for youth.

Social Innovation: IYF nurtures young leaders and the institutes that support
these change-makers. Promoting opportunities for young people to exercise their
full leadership potential in order to effect positive social change in their
communities

Funding

IYF receives the majority of its funds through foundations, governments and
multilateral organizations, corporations and corporate foundations, individuals, interest
and investment income.

Partnerships

IYF partners with multilateral institutions such as:

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

 Other partners:

Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Chevron, General Electric, Intel, Kellogg, Merrill

Lynch, Microsoft, Nike and Nokia

Projects / Achievements

International Youth Foundations Egypt@Work Program

- Provide integrated training and job placement services to 10,000

disadvantaged youth.

Promoting Youth Employment and Employability Initiative

- which is designed to test and disseminate proven practices on youth

employment programs, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North
Africa

Global Fund for Youth Development (GFYD)

Beginning in 1999, the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation invested more than $US17

million in the Global Fund for Youth Development (GFYD) to promote education reform,
teacher training, employment skills, and entrepreneurship. GFYD directly benefited
more than 600,000 youth its first six years. Employee engagement through
volunteering played a key role in GFYD and the IYF-Alcatel-Lucent Foundation
partnership.

IYF in the Philippines

BridgeIt
The program design gave remote schools and communities access to a vast
range of locally developed or adapted educational content. Initially, launched in
the Philippines as text2teach.
 Education & Employment Alliance (EEA)
- offered comprehensive learning packages, combining technical/vocational and
life skills, entrepreneurship development, on-the-job training, and job placement or
enterprise development support.

Education and Livelihood Skills Alliance (ELSA)

From 2004 to 2011, ELSA provided learning and employment opportunities for at-
risk children and youth living in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and
Central Mindanao, Philippines