Now in its 15th year of supporting youth-led social innovation, YouthActionNet® seeks 20 extraordinary young leaders to join its 2015 class of Laureate Global Fellows. Learn more and help spread the word..
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For 28 years, IYF has drawn inspiration from the youth we serve and benefitted from their insight as we’ve worked to connect them with the skills, opportunities, and support they need to thrive..
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Six years after launching Doncel, a civil society organization dedicated to supporting youth transitioning out of the residential, or foster, care system in Argentina, Mariana Incarnato had a profound insight. “We started out as a program that helps young people; we were the professionals who knew what to do,” she says. What Incarnato came to realize is that the youth Doncel served often had insights and solutions she her team and failed to see.
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On weekday afternoons, 20 underserved youth head to the Volvo Trucks facility, located on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to be trained in life and technical skills through what is known as a Pescar Center. Volvo hosts one of 22 such centers across the nation. For corporate social responsibility managers, the Pescar model is appealing for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the opportunity it offers to engage employees in the hands-on training of disadvantaged youth, while contributing to local communities.
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Meet these young social changemakers healing profound social, economic, racial, and educational divides..
Now in its 15th year of supporting youth-led social innovation, YouthActionNet® seeks 20 extraordinary young leaders to join its 2015 class of Laureate Global Fellows. Learn more and help spread the word..
For 28 years, IYF has drawn inspiration from the youth we serve and benefitted from their insight as we’ve worked to connect them with the skills, opportunities, and support they need to thrive..
Six years after launching Doncel, a civil society organization dedicated to supporting youth transitioning out of the residential, or foster, care system in Argentina, Mariana Incarnato had a profound insight. “We started out as a program that helps young people; we were the professionals who knew what to do,” she says. What Incarnato came to realize is that the youth Doncel served often had insights and solutions she her team and failed to see.
On weekday afternoons, 20 underserved youth head to the Volvo Trucks facility, located on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to be trained in life and technical skills through what is known as a Pescar Center. Volvo hosts one of 22 such centers across the nation. For corporate social responsibility managers, the Pescar model is appealing for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the opportunity it offers to engage employees in the hands-on training of disadvantaged youth, while contributing to local communities.
