PTS at Hilton: Creating Shared Value
Video of PTS at Hilton: Creating Shared ValuePTS at Hilton: Creating Shared ValueIYF-December 3, 2015- Posted In Employment Education, Life SkillsThis video, filmed in Durban, South Africa, showcases...
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Hilton Worldwide Training Shows Life Skills Make a Difference
Companies increasingly are investing in products, operating models, and workforce strategies that deliver shared business and social value. IYF partner Hilton Worldwide is experiencing firsthand the...
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What are the World’s Young People Doing? 3 Opportunities
This post begins a series presenting data compiled by IYF, and we gathered this first set in collaboration with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Each new visualization will...
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52 Reasons to Believe in the Power of Youth
Whether you see today’s burgeoning youth population as a problem or an opportunity depends on where you look. For powerful examples of youth driving positive change, one need look no further than IYF’s...
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In Central America, A New Order Where it Pays to Live by the Rules
In the early 1980s, I crossed the border between Guatemala and Honduras illegally. I’d just attended a workshop for rural health workers in Chiquimula and wanted to hop across to visit the Mayan site...
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The Youth Social Entrepreneurship Ecosystem
This post is the second in a series presenting data compiled by IYF, and this set includes findings from our YouthActionNet® initiative. Each new visualization aims to help practitioners and...
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How We Can Strengthen the Ecosystem of Support for Young Social Entrepreneurs
As part of my role overseeing YouthActionNet®’s Latin American portfolio, I recently analyzed data on 475 young social entrepreneurs who had applied to our institutes in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico in...
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The Adventure of STEM Education in Chile
For many students, classes related to science, technology, engineering, and math—the so-called STEM fields—can be intimidating. Stereotypes persist that you either have what it takes to succeed in...
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How Two Youth Mentors in Mexico Found Their Callings
Working at IYF has given me the privilege to travel to various cities in Mexico, with the aim of training local partners to implement our Órale youth employability model. With every new place I visit,...
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CountriesMexicoRegionLatin America & the CaribbeanTargeted YouthUnderserved youthActive Active Program ImageBodyWith funding from the TK Foundation, our Órale initiative is orienting youth to the...
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At Work in Rural Communities to Prevent the Spread of the Zika Virus
In isolated rural communities in Mexico, where the distance villagers must travel to find a doctor can mean the difference between life and death, Dr. Carolina Zuheill Rosales delivers urgently needed...
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Steps to Systems Change for Vocational Training in Mexico
When I last saw Alejandro Jaimes, in September of 2015, he was working in Mexico’s northern industrial heartland of Nuevo Leon as the regional director of CONALEP, part of the country’s vocational...
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3 Lessons for Fostering the Growth of Young Women Entrepreneurs
At first glance, exceptional data can often appear quite ordinary.For example, in 2015, slightly more young women than men applied to our national YouthActionNet® institute in Mexico, Premio UVM para...
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Young Women & Single Mothers in Chile Pursue New Roles
Like many young women growing up in disadvantaged communities in Chile, Helen Mendoza began raising a family at an early age—delaying her education and first career steps—in order to care for her...
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A Young Entrepreneur Brings Language-Learning to Brazil’s Favelas
When bad news strikes, sometimes it’s hard to see past it. Such was the case this week when Brazil’s deepening political and economic crisis all but eclipsed news of the arrival in Rio of the flame...
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EquipYouth Solves Employer’s Hiring Problems
Like their counterparts around the world, one of the main difficulties Peruvian companies report is finding trained staff with technical knowledge and good soft skills. According to Cantol S.A.C., a...
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The Phone Call Every Program Manager Hopes to Get
The call came while I was in a meeting. My mind was on the group discussions as I stepped out of the room and distractedly answered, “Hello, how can I help you?” The connection was bad, every other...
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What a High School Diploma Means in Mexico
What is the value of a high school diploma? Ask any number of people across the world and you hear a pretty consistent answer: higher earning potential and career advancement opportunities. A greater...
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5 Strategies for Managing a Multi-Stakeholder Alliance
An initiative I work on, Rutas, which is supported by USAID, seeks to ensure that technical public high schools teach students the skills they need to be competitive in Mexico's dynamic job market....
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