Youth
Contact: Dan Roth dnr6@cornell.edu
Douglas Cohen dacohen77@gmail.com
Chair, Resource Council - NATIONAL YOUTH INITIATIVES
and Inspired Futures Campaign.
See program description below Youth Team goals.
Vision:The vision of the Youth Action Team (YAT) of the U.S. Partnership is a generation of American youth who have the support, capacity, and vision to lead sweeping societal shifts toward a healthy, just, and sustainable future.
Mission: The mission of the Youth Action Team (YAT) of the U.S. Partnership is to optimize the engagement, participation, and leadership of youth (15-30 years old) in the activities of the U.S. Partnership, Partnership organizations, and the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
Overarching Goals:
Goal #1 - Encourage and facilitate the effective and meaningful participation of youth-led and youth development organizations, their representatives and individual youth in the USPESD
Goal #2 – Encourage and enable young members of the U.S. Partnership to take on leadership roles in the USP
Goal #3 - Increase exposure, impact, and capacity of individual and organizational members of the Youth Action Team
Goal #4 – Focus the collective capacities of the Youth Action Team and the overall U.S. Partnership on innovative projects, campaigns, and enterprises that involve multiple partners and show potential for substantial achievement of UN Decade of ESD and U.S. Partnership goals
Goal #5 – Evaluate and celebrate the impact of Youth Action Team goals and activities and the role of the YAT in the achievement of U.S. Partnership and UN Decade goals.
NATIONAL YOUTH INITIATIVES
Inspired Futures Campaign
InterGenerational Partnerships for Livable Futures
CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES
To create a generation of Sustainability Literate and Systemic-Change Literate Leaders who will revitalize communities and regenerate America by building thriving, green and socially just 'Local Living Economies'.
PROGRAM ELEMENTS
Leaders of the Next Generation - Leadership Development Pathways & regional 'Communities of Practice'
Youth Voice & Youth Insight Speakers Bureau - Delegations of Youth Leaders to regional, national and global conferences and symposia
Green Jobs Workforce Development Programs: Urban green entrepreneurship; Community Based Green Economic Development
InterGenerational Mentoring
Cross-Sector Partnerships uniting K-12, Higher Ed, Business, Non-Profit/NGO, Philanthropy, Faith, Municipal, State & Federal Governments, Arts and Culture domains.
CONTACT - Douglas Cohen - 646.510.0901 dacohen77@gmail.com