WeThrive works to achieve justice and close opportunity gaps by equipping underestimated young people (ages 12-24) from low-income communities with the tools to rise as entrepreneurial leaders
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- ISSUE AREA : Youth workforce development & entrepreneurship
- ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET:$1,300,000
- GEOGRAPHY: United States
KEY FINDINGS
- 3-5 year goal is to scale the operation by providing 1 million youth with the tools to develop their ideas and products
- They have successfully built connections with Gen-Z audiences through a “direct-to-youth” model on YouTube and Instagram
- 96% of engaged youth have launched successful enterprises (a metric they define as: an enterprise that has been sustained for well over a year since inception)
- Currently, on track to work with 20,000 youth by 2023 – taking them from idea stage to iteration and full-on content development
- With Elevate, WeThrive hopes to leverage strong partnerships in NYC, Denver, and Washington D.C. to drive community-wide adoption and spur a word-of-mouth referral system that would encompass 100+ communities nationwide
- Seeking more corporate sponsorships from companies with large Gen-Z audiences in order to accelerate their direct-to-youth timeline (about 30% of their budget right now)