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Yunus & Youth Global Program
Apply for the Fellowship to Create and Grow Social Enterprises Aligned with the UN SDGs
For the 2024 Yunus & Youth Global Fellowship Program, applications are now being accepted. A tailored six-month online program, the Yunus & Youth Global Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurs enables young people to create, grow, and expand social enterprises that are creative, profitable, and contribute to the accomplishment of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Deadline to Apply: March 7, 2024
Ideal Candidates:
Founders or co-founders of social businesses: devoted to creating a company that addresses a social or environmental concern in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Youth: 18 to 30 years old, with exceptional candidates applying outside of that age range considered.
- Early on: Not just a concept.
- projects that have, at the very least, been tested and prototyped.
Innovative: Solutions that include novel perspectives or technological advancements in their offerings, procedures, or environments. - Interested and Available: Willingness to commit at least five hours a week to the Y&Y Fellowship to support the expansion and improvement of the Y&Y Community.
- Dedicated to Diversity and Equity: Determine or focus on issues that a minority group (ethnic/racial minorities, gender minorities, LGBTQIA+, refugees and displaced people, low-income, or individuals with disabilities) faces about the makeup of their local community.
Benefits:
- Ideal CandidateTeenage social entrepreneurs can receive free online training. Very personalized instruction backed by live classes mentors who have executive positions in Fortune 500 businesses international network of professionals in social business connections and exposure to other countriesLast-minute proposal
- The Modules for Y&Y Fellowship Training
- Overview of the Y&Y Community’s entrepreneurial abilities
- Narrative
- Market tactics
- Providing your remedy
- Assessing the influence
- Finishing the business plan
- Making connections and pitching
- Getting money for your social enterprise
- Constructing the entity
- Communications and brand
- Controlling expansion
