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The organization also known as M.A.Y.O started in 2003 as just a youth drama group for raising awareness on issues to do with drug abuse, HIV and AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health and became an affiliate member to the National Association of Non-Governmental Organizations in 2005. [4] The organization has worked in collaboration with various ...
Youth on Board (YOB) was a nonprofit youth empowerment program based in the Boston, Massachusetts area for more than 20 years. It was a youth-led, adult supported program that worked in more than 5 countries, 27 states, and over 100 schools. It was a project of YouthBuild USA .
Southwest Key Programs is a Texas-based nonprofit organization that operates shelter facilities for unaccompanied immigrant minors and immigrant youth. It also provides youth justice alternative programming and educational programming. [3] The organization was founded in 1987. Southwest Key reported in August 2016 that it operates in 3 states ...
The MinKwon Center for Community Action is a nonprofit organization that serves the needs of the Korean American community in New York City. First established as YKASEC in 1984, the MinKwon Center is based in Flushing, Queens, which has a large Korean population. MinKwon focuses in particular on reaching marginalized community members, such as ...
A Youth worker is a person that works with young people to facilitate their personal, social and educational development through informal education, care (e.g. preventive) or leisure approaches. [1] All types of educative approaches are not ethical for youth work, examples for unethical forms of education are indoctrinating, inculcating, and ...
The Empowerment Plan was established as a 501 (c)3 nonprofit corporation in 2011, by Veronika Scott, who was a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Beginning as a school project, Scott initially designed the sleeping bag coat, called "Element S (urvival)" from the Tyvek home insulation and wool army blankets to help the ...
Boy Scouting was brought to the United States by William D. Boyce. He incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8, 1910. The Boy Scouts of America was chartered by Congress on June 15, 1916. This is the same year as the first Boy Scout Council in Arizona was formed with the Prescott Council. [2]
The World Youth Congress is an international event hosted in a multitude of countries since its beginning in 1999. It is for young leaders to come together and discuss world issues. At the first World Youth Congress, which was held in Hawaii in 1999, about 1000 local and international delegates from nearly 180 countries attended. [1]