CORPORATE TEAMS
Businesses make excellent partners for taking positive change initiatives to a new level:

  • staff
  • skills
  • resources
  • networks
  • spirit of innovation
  • need of transformation
  • renewed sense of purpose and meaning as part of community and society

through valuable (in-kind) sponsorship, but also far beyond it.

We partner with businesses also

  • for their employees
  • for their families and children
  • for company culture
  • for volunteering at home and abroad
  • for voluntravel at hero/ines’ ventures abroad
  • in fun, inspirational ways
  • with opportunity for learning
  • with responsible project development beyond their core business

adding a spirit of ideas, trust, hope, health, vision, innovation, and collaborative community among your employees, as well as enabling highly rewarding engagement, activities and putting your community’s talents and capacities to service.

TYPICAL FORMS OF COLLABORATION

MEDIA SETS FOR SCHOOLS

The obvious classic : help us print and distribute our stories, music, cardgame and poster sets for pop-up exhibits to your city’s schools, public libraries, kindergartens and youth clubs. Add offers of inter/action to build collaborative ties with your community.

ADOPT YOUR CITY

Facilitate long-term youth-led change and ripple effects in your community. Distribute media sets to schools, public libraries, kindergartens and youth clubs. Add offers of inter/action like funding, presentations and workshops. Support inspired youth groups with campaign support by tapping into your resources, capacities and staff. Mentor outstanding young changemakers in project development, enabling travel and participation in trainings and meeting our hero/ines. Offer meaningful awards and prizes. Spread the good example, involve administration, philanthropic clubs and media. Share the news with businesses through media, newsletters, conventions and networks.

ADOPT-A-HERO/INE

Select a cause and hero/ine fitting your business field, ethic and capacities and join us for a development partnership with your choice of activities, like funds, in-kind support, project development, campaigns etc. For fundrasiers, involve your employee family and business community, using our media, exhibits, films and personal tipps. Follow up with news on your impact through presentations and newsletter, eventually even organize Live on  Skype meetings and speaker appearances. Scale the campaign with employee field and voluntravel visits, document, report back and share with the public. Your employees’ children might even take it to schools, to local media and grow the movement.

FOR YOUR EMPLOYEES

Inspire and involve employees with our coffee table books, poster exhibits, fundraisers, adopt-a-hero/ine partnerships, live on skype meetings and sharing your support, progress and achievements in your newsletters. Include our media and speakers at events.

FOR EVENTS

Invite YL Speakers in person and via Skype, add poster exhibits for ambience and self-guided exploration, inspirational films and music, selected campaigns, interactive installations for kids and families, hero-oriented fundraisers, inform and equip audiences with our media sets and tools for taking the newly found inspriation to their homes, schools and communities.

YOUR IDEAS

We can develop tailored partnerships, projects and campaigns aligned with your priority topics and regions. We can involve our planetary resource network of changemakers, solutions, experts, mediamakers and volunteers.

ENLIGHTENED EMPLOYEES

Add surprise and inspiration to daily life informally through media and formally through presentations, partnerships and fundraisers.

SENSE OF PURPOSE

Add a dose of positive change to business culture : good ideas, hero/ine role models, field partners, donations, media gifts for families, presence at events, involvement in projects and campaigns, celebration.

PLAYFUL CREATIVITY & COMMUNITY

Invite employees to follow their passion, develop ideas and initiatives, for local and global positive change.

STAFF & TRAINEE PROJECTS

Design a project for trainees or staff in support of youth leadership in your city, young changemakers abroad, or even replication of a grand sustainability solution in your sphere of influence.

SOCIAL BUSINESS

“Applying an entrepreneurial approach to solving development problems” is a fascinating new paradigm pioneered by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus – often harnessing especially “corporate capital” like knowledge, machines, contacts, knowledge, staff and skills in simple or genius ways. Enthusiastically embraced by entrepreneurs looking beyond the box, social business is on the rise. Whether developing a complete and “pure” social business model, or mixed with philanthropy, it is one of the most exciting phenomena in the global business arena.

INTERDISCIPLINARY & INTERSECTORIAL PROJECTS

Our range of topics, initiatives and partners enables exciting projects beyond your common focus, with exciting interdisciplinary challenges for your team : a mix of connecting sustainability solutions, social business, civil society, media, education, inter/national partners and youth leadership.

PUBLIC PRESENCE

Youth leaders, youth leadership and genius changemakers enjoy universal respect in society. Spearheading it in your city will naturally facilitate collaborations with education, civil society and activities in public space.

MEDIA PRESENCE

Youth leadership activities generate protagonists, plots and vivid imagery for uplifting media presence in radio, television, online and printed news media.
WE BELIEVE THAT MEMBERSHIP IN THE YOUTH-LEADER TRIBE ENRICHES YOUR COMPANY’S AND EMPLOYEES’ DAILY LIVES, SENSE OF PURPOSE NAND OPPORTUNITY TO ALIGN CORE BUSINESS, VISION AND CSR FOR IMPACT ON PEOPLE & PLANET BEYOND OUR IMAGINATION.