One of the five Grand Prize winners of this year’s @15 Community Impact Challenge.
The 10 winners of the second @15 Community Impact Challenge have been announced.
After tallying the more than 40,000 votes cast at at15.com, the five teams of young social entrepreneurs who will receive $5,000 to scale their impact are:
Woofin & Hoofin / Adin, 18 – Wheaton, IL. Venture objective: Further develop 5K fundraiser which raised over $5000 for a local animal shelter last year and educate future leaders through seminars and guides.
Eye for the Future / Malvi, 16 – Watchung, NJ. Venture objective: Impact at least 20,000 underprivileged children throughout the world by funding education and building schools, libraries, and computer labs.
Lincoln Climate Action Club / Alexander, 17 – Woolwich, ME. Venture objective: Monitor power consumption and install solar panels throughout the Newcastle community as part of global warming awareness program which has already sold town-wide reusable bags, obtained a no-idling vehicle policy in the high school parking lot, and collected batteries and ink cartridges for recycling.
121Reach / Fan, 17 – Johns Creek, GA. Venture objective: Expand the successful after school tutoring program at Chattahoochee High School and Taylor Road Middle School that has served over 200 youth to other local schools through starter kits and training.
T.G.I.F. – Turn Grease Into Fuel / Alexander, 17 – Westerly, RI. Venture objective: Expand system of collecting and refining used cooking oil into biodiesel, a program which currently generates 30,000 gallons of biodiesel per year, to more locations and set up a seminar to help youth establish their own community service teams.
The following five teams will each receive $1,000:
Listen Up! – A New Initiative of Lil’s MDGs / Tiffany, 14 – Hooksett, NH. Educate youth age 5 -10 to understand the Millennium Development Goals through movies, animations, songs, and games made available online and as CDs/DVDs.
Everybody Dance Now! / Jacqueline, 18 – Santa Barbara, CA. Venture objective: Expand the number of students in hip-hop dance program which has already impacted 800 youth by providing creative outlets and encouraging positive alternatives to violence and substance abuse.
Hives for Lives / Carly, 15 – Devon, PA. Venture objective: Foster business relationships with distributors and invest in new bee hives in order to increase build on the over $160,000 the team has donated to basic cancer research.
Don’s Net Café (“Doin’ Some Good in the World!”) / Ana, 16 – Santa Barbara, CA. Venture objective: Expand outreach and hold events to educate community about team’s environment-focused community service events and tax assistance program, which completes over 600 tax returns each year.
Drinking Water for India / Rujul, 15 – Plainsboro, NJ. Venture objective: Build additional tube-wells and begin implementing rainwater harvesting projects in remote Indian villages as part of expansion of program which has already erected 17 wells and provided clean drinking water for 30,000 people.
Congratulations to all!
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What cause to you care about? Is it the Environment? Education? Global Poverty?
Young people just like you are making a difference on these issues. Help them create the change you want to see! Watch their videos and vote for your favorite teams to win up to $5,000 to make [...]
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Ashoka GenV is pleased to support What’s Your Issue? – Film Your Issue initiative and competition.
We invite youth ages 14 to 24 to submit a 3-minute video, presenting an issue they care about and a proposed solution.
Winning solution-projects will be presented to senior officials in the Obama administration, broadcast on screens in every Best Buy [...]
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Interested in taking your Venture to the next level?
Apply now for the @15 Community Impact Challenge with Ashoka’s Youth Venture. Fifteen (15) finalists will be selected based on the potential for community impact and long term sustainability. The finalists will be equipped with camcorders and provided coaching in grassroots marketing as they compete online for [...]
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Ashoka recently published an ebook featuring our youth venturers and their projects. You can view or download it. Spread it to your friends.
Stories of Change – Vol 2 : Youth Making A Difference
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Continuing our interview series with youth who have launched invention ventures through our Invent Your World campaign, we bring you this interview with Hemant Sahal, inventor of the CALLMAT.
1) Your invention venture, CALLMAT, aims to address the problem of water contamination by offering a technology that would remove toxic metal ions and pollutants. Why [...]
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Web of Life from Charles Tsai on Vimeo.
Forgive this personal post but on this global Blog Action Day, I’d like to share with you a story I did back when I worked for CNN. It was the first in a series of videos about biodiversity, a subject I had just learned about at the time.
Biodiversity [...]
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Hemant Sahal, 20, India – When visiting his hometown in rural India, Hemant Sahal was struck by the number of people suffering from heavy metal poisoning. The source of this harmful waste is small-scale industry, which lacks the knowledge and resources to prevent the release of harmful by-products into local water supply.
To address this problem, [...]
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Ashoka GenV is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2009 Ashoka Lemelson Awards for young inventors.
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Invent Your World Winners
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These represent five of the most outstanding invention ventures from the 2009 Invent Your World Challenge – a partnership between [...]
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The Indian Youth Climate Network is now recruiting passionate youth to be part of the Asian subcontinent delegation to the Copenhagen conference on climate change.
Interested youth can apply to be part of the IYCN’s Agents of Change program.
The IYCN Agents of Change program takes the IYCN movement from the grass roots to the international arena. [...]
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Erica Lawson, 17, USA - In 2010, stricter regulations will be applied to the trucking industry, requiring lower emissions of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons. Several truck manufacturers have proposed adding a tank of urea to each truck to control emissions, but there are many downsides to this technology, such as high cost, added weight, and consumption [...]
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