Website: http://www.ashoka.org/youthventure
Contact: Mira Kusumarini, Ashoka Representative
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Tel: +62 22 7306 914
Adress: Ashoka Indonesia, Jl. Durma No. 17 | Turangga, Bandung, West Java  40264, Indonesia

About
Ashoka's Youth Venture is a global movement that inspires, invests, and supports young people to lead social change. They invest in young people, from the age of 15 to 24, to design and lead their own initiatives that create social impact. In creating and launching their “Ventures,” as they form teams and work together, young people learn the important skills of leadership, teamwork, entrepreneurship and empathy. They also realize that they are powerful and will continue to take initiative and lead again and again throughout their lives.

Program description
The one year Youth Venture Fellowship incl. three workshops over 3 months. 1. Workshop:  Idea Refinement 2. workshop: World Café, enables peer-to-peer learning 3. workshop business planning and budgeting. Following this preparation each team presents their project to a panel of professionals. Based on the panelists feedback the Venturers launch with Seed funding provided by Ashoka.
Along with the workshops and site visits, each team joins the Community of Changemakers, where teams gain inspiration and learning from each other.  Youth Venture also provides networking, guidance and seed funding of a total of $250. Youth Venture also provides a professional mentorship program. Towards the end of the fellowship year, Youth Venture connects teams who are interested in continuing their project in touch with other organizations.

Participants
Young people range from the age of 15 to 24, coming from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. There is no educational qualification or particular background requirement for the young people. The participants should be passionate, energetic and have a dream to make change happen through their project.

Applications
Please contact Ashoka for information about application.