Volunteer To Coach A Young YSEI Entrepreneur
If you have knowledge and skills you believe would be useful to youth led, social business ventures in developing communities then consider becoming a part time YSEI Mentor.
Mentoring is undertaken on a volunteer basis and carried out remotely via email, skype, instant messaging programs and the phone. Your commitment can be as little as 5 hours per year.
Make a big difference with your knowledge!
Mentor profile: Established professionals with specific expertise in various business areas such as management, business, marketing, microfinance, non profit, IT or entrepreneurship.
Objective: To assist the youth leaders of the YSEI projects reach their goals on-time and on-track.
Your commitment: Year-based, minimum commitment of 5 hours of mentoring per year
Please complete the application form below so we can match you up with one of the fellows. We have projects underway in India (3), Bangladesh (2), Philippines (2) and Timor Leste (1). You can view the 8 YSEI fellows projects here
You will receive a request confirmation email after you hit the submit button and we'll be in touch shortly.
Benefits: In return for your assistance you will also receive your profile on: www.YSEI.org, www.Futureshifters.net, www.SolvePoverty.com and www.OrphanIT.com
and be eligible to carry the title of ‘YSEI Mentor 2007'
Help promote YSEI: If you would like to place a link to the mentorship program please use one of the links here. We appreciate your support.
Background: A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture that creates social change.
Social entrepreneurs are innovative, resourceful, and results oriented individuals who utilize the best of the business, nonprofit and technology worlds to develop innovative solutions that maximize their social impact.
YSEI believes in providing support to any young
person from any developing region with innovative ideas, commitment and vision for social change to emerge as a social entrepreneur and create lasting
impact.
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YSEI was founded in 2005 as a Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) multi-stakeholder partnership program between its members - Thai Rural Net (TRN), Mitra & OrphanIT.
The cofounders and management of YSEI include Sunit Shrestha (Executive Director, TRN), Rahul Nainwal , (Director, Mitra), Simon Healy (CEO, OrphanIT) and Sailendra Dev Appanah (TRN Partner).
The start-up support for the fellows includes:
• Startup financing up to USD15,000
• Essential development knowledge & tools on social entrepreneurship
• Technical consulting through mentorship
• Access to diverse networks
On a practical level, some of the qualities of the ventures we invest in are:
• Social ventures with blended values (value creation that consists of economic, social and/or environmental value components)
• Information & communication technologies (ICTs) are recognized as an integral part of the venture/solution-provided
• Ventures are led by youth from developing countries aged between 19 to 30 years
• Ventures that are specifically targeted to poverty reduction, improving disadvantaged/marginalized groups, environmental protection, gender equality & human rights
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