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International Youth Foundation
Mission: "To positively impact the greatest number of young people in as many places as possible, in the shortest amount of time, with programs that are effective and in ways that are sustainable. IYF focuses on youth employment, life skills, youth leadership, and health education."
In China since: 1999
Annual China budget: $250,000
International Contact:
32 South Street, Suite 500
Baltimore, Maryland 21202 USA
United States
Tel: +1 410 951 1500
Activities in Other Countries:
Around 60 countries worldwide
This organisation was established in 1990 with a USD 70 million endowment given by the W K Kellogg Foundation. (The Kellogg Foundation was itself created in 1930 by the founder of the Kellogg cereal company; it has since grown to become one of the world’s largest foundations). The International Youth Foundation now supports youth development programmes in 60 countries, with an emphasis on vocational education, improved workplace environments for young people, life skills, recreation facilities, health and youth leadership. Rather than creating new programmes, IYF emphasises ‘identifying and supporting what works’, helping to scale up successful projects run by non-profit organisations and businesses. It also works with leading multinational corporations to develop global ‘corporate social responsibility’ programmes relevant to young people.
In China, IYF’s main partner has been the China Youth Development Foundation. IYF has mobilised funding from Lucent Technologies to enable the Youth Development Foundation to scale up a Project Hope teacher training programme in Shanghai, to establish several ‘Hope Internet Schools’ in rural communities, and to provide information and communication technology training to scores of teachers and thousands of students. The China Youth Development Foundation has also been the key China partner of a ‘Make a Connection’ programme, funded by Nokia through IYF, that supports small activities to promote life skills, creativity, cultural tolerance and active participation of young people.
IYF was one of the founding sponsors of a Global Alliance for Workers and Communities, which was established in 1999 as a partnership between foundations, government agencies and private corporations, notably, Nike. The Alliance set out to ‘improve workplace conditions and future prospects’ of young people working in factories connected to global supply chains. In China, it began some research into reproductive health needs of young women factory workers. However, the Global Alliance was dissolved by its founders at the end of 2004.
In 2003, IYF’s total income was USD 18.2 million Of this 55% was in grants from private corporations, 26% in grants from governments and 15% from return on investments.
Links
http://www.iyfnet.org
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