Youth Alliance
The Youth Alliance is a community of funders, practitioners and investors tackling youth challenges together. Members co-invest, share knowledge and advocate for systemic change for disadvantaged young people and youth social entrepreneurship.
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The challenge
To define the alliance's scope, Ashoka, Impact Europe and the Schneider Electric Foundation surveyed their members, both field actors and funders, to map the systemic gaps and barriers to empowering disadvantaged youth and supporting youth social entrepreneurship. The core team also reviewed existing research to find where the alliance could add most.
The barriers are diverse and interact with each other. The chart shows the selection the alliance works on.
How the alliance works
The alliance's strategy rests on three pillars: co-investing in projects, sharing knowledge within the alliance and the wider ecosystem, and using a collective voice for advocacy.
What's on
- Youth Alliance: let's shape what's next (members' meeting, 2026)
How to join
The alliance welcomes new members. Membership brings thought-leadership opportunities and access to co-investments. To keep the group engaged, members commit to attend meetups regularly and to contribute each year, financially or otherwise, to one of the alliance's activities. Projects submitted for co-investment follow agreed criteria.
