Ashoka's Youth Venture Kickoff Community Panel
Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (PT)
Berkeley, CA
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To celebrate the launch of
in the San Francisco Bay Area
Join us for our first Community Panel
at Berkeley's David Brower Center
Saturday, March 6th, 10:00 am-3:00 pm
Sponsored by our partner:
The New Leaders Initiative of the Earth Island Institute
At this fun and inspiring event, young social entrepreneurs from Oakland enrolled in the Bay Area's first Youth Venture program will present their plans for projects to benefit their community to a panel of judges. A panel of social entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and youth leaders will determine which youth-led teams will receive up to $1,000 in seed funding to launch their social ventures, and you're invited!
Youth Venture inspires and invests in teams of young people as they start and lead their own sustainable social ventures, connecting them into a powerful global network. Ashoka, the world's leading organization of social entrepreneurs, created Youth Venture in 1996. Since that time, more than 3,500 Youth Venture teams have launched in more than 20 countries around the world.
Youth Venture S.F. Bay Area has just launched its first seven teams. The young aspiring changemakers in our program have spent several months working with mentors to transform their ideas for community social ventures into specific, actionable steps.
The Youth Venture program is deeply collaborative, and we welcome your involvement in supporting young changemakers in our local community.
Community Panel Agenda
10:00-10:15 am Welcome from Youth Venture S.F. Bay Area director Amy Wilson
10:15-10:30 am Keynote from special guest Matt Flannery, Co-Founder & CEO, Kiva
10:30-11:30 am Youth Team Presentations - Each team presents its plan, which may include a hip hop performance, video screening, or other exciting sample of the team's project in action
11:30-11:45 am Break
11:45-1:00 pm Youth Team Presentations continue
1:00-2:15 pm Lunch/Networking - Break for lunch on your own while the panelists deliberate
2:15-3:00 pm Award Announcements
A special announcement from Bill Thomason, founder of Wall Street Wizards
Panelists provide final feedback to youth teams and announce which teams are ready to join the global Youth Venture community and receive up to $1,000 in seed funding
Please note: You are free to come and go as you wish during the day, but to respect the hard work of our youth teams, we will close the doors during each presentation.
The Panelists
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Kevin Jones, Founding Principal, Good Capital
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Paula Groves, Founding Partner, 4Front Partners
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Alex Anderson, Owner, Andercorp Ventures
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Amanda West, Founder & CEO, Amanda's Feel Good Fresh Food
- Nadine Weil, Founder, Heart of Green & Vice-President, ecofabulous
- Morgan Simon, Co-Founder, Innovación Investments
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Two youth members of the urban financial literacy program Wall Street Wizards
The Youth Venture Teams
- WYSE (West Oakland Youth Standing Empowered) - Making Organic Produce Accessible to West Oakland Communities- James Berk, Ennis Jones, Jamelah Isaac, and Alshea Mitchell
- Grow Your Own Green - Community Gardening in West Oakland - Rachelle Reed
- Improving Relations Between Oakland Police and Oakland Youth, Tamara Lawrence
- Ozone Music Group - Hip-hop with a purpose, youth empowering youth through music - Olondis Walker
- Youth Roots - Creating media to give voice to Oakland Youth - Diego Rivera, Mario Rodriguez, Hazel Rodriguez, Juan Perez, Isabel Gonzalez
- Project Jatropha - Adarsha Shivakumar, Apoorva Rangan, Callie Roberts
- Creating Hope For Future Leaders - Sponsoring a school in Nicaragua - Miguel Olivares
To learn more about Ashoka's Youth Venture Bay Area program, visit us online or email our director Amy Wilson.
If you're unable to attend, but would like to make a financial contribution, please visit our website to donate online. (Be sure to specify "San Francisco Bay Area" in the Select Area dropdown box).
A Very Warm Thank You to Our Sponsor:
"The most important contribution any of us can make now is not to solve any particular problem, no matter how urgent...What we must do now is increase the proportion of humans who know that they can cause change. And who, like smart white blood cells coursing through society, will stop with pleasure whenever they see that something is stuck or that an opportunity is ripe to be seized."
-- Bill Drayton, Everyone a Changemaker: Social Entrepreneurship's Ultimate Goal
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Ashoka's Youth Venture
Ashoka's Youth Venture is building a global movement of young changemakers. Youth Venture inspires and invests in teams of young people as they start their own sustainable social ventures, connecting them into a powerful global network. To date, Youth Venture has launched more than 3,500 youth-led teams in more than 20 countries around the world. Collectively, these young changemakers are redefining the youth years as a time of initiative and positive change. For more information, please visit www.GenV.net/sfbayarea
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