The Young Karratha Change Agents Program, supported by the City of Karratha and delivered in partnership with Regional Development Australia (Pilbara), engaged 121 students across Karratha to create 41 youth-led social enterprise ideas addressing challenges in their local community. Through our Future of Our Regions Design Challenge, students stepped into the role of change agents, identifying local challenges, developing creative …
Empowering Youth in Geraldton and Mullewa with the “Discover and Explore Entrepreneurship” Program
The “Discover and Explore Entrepreneurship” Program, supported by the City of Greater Geraldton, has seen the youth of Geraldton and Mullewa create 17 youth-led social enterprise ideas to address local challenges. This program helped youth build an entrepreneurial mindset, skillset and toolset, explore entrepreneurial career pathways and drive positive change in their communities. Social Enterprise Discovery WorkshopsThe workshop series featured …
Profit with Purpose: The Social Enterprise Model Explained
What is Social Enterprise? “So, what exactly is social enterprise?” This is one of the most common questions asked of our Young Change Agents team when we talk with educators, collaborators, and students about what we do and who we are. The Social Enterprise Model Explained… Simply put, a social enterprise is a business entity that aims to address social …
Meet the $20 Boss Alum Creating Eco-Friendly Surf Wax
Noah founded his social enterprise, Sticky Pronk while participating in the $20 Boss program as a Year 6 student in 2018. After learning about how damaging surf wax could be to marine ecosystems, Noah decided to come up with a surf wax that wouldn’t harm the environment. Sticky Pronk is a social enterprise that sells eco-friendly, non-toxic surf wax made …
Students tackle textile waste with social enterprise, Shinely
In 2021, Young Change Agents ran the Future of Fashion Youth Design Challenge. The challenge asked young people aged 10-21 to consider the following question: “How might we innovate the fashion industry to transform the way we create, purchase, and use fashion for work, study, and play?” Samera and Freshta from Para Hills High School in South Australia participated in …
Bushfire Resilience Challenge
In 2021, Young Change Agents hosted the Telstra Foundation-funded Bushfire Resilience Challenge in Geelong. Over 60 students from 5 schools in regional Victoria participated in the challenge, where they had the opportunity to learn design thinking and entrepreneurial skills. The participating schools were Mount Rowan Secondary College, Bellarine Secondary College, North Geelong Secondary College, Oberon High School and Geelong High …
Social Enterprise in a Box – school-based retail social enterprise!
Social Enterprise in a Box – create a social enterprise at your school! All Australia’s States and Territories are exploring ways to build students’ 21st century skills and how teachers can best champion this. Young Change Agents’ Social Enterprise in a Box initiative is an innovative way for youth to build social enterprise skills in school, be rewarded for learning and support the …
The Youth Empowerment Revolution: Part Two
Life lessons from YINC. More so than ever, it is incredibly important for young people to be empowered to make an impact on the world. The current state of global affairs: school shootings in America, deforestation in the Amazon and gendered violence in Australia — to name just a few — is somewhat dismal. Radical social change is both necessary …
The Youth Empowerment Revolution: Part One
Seeing the Young Change Agents program through the eyes of a young person. As a young person, it is often easy to forget that your voice deserves to be heard. The wildly imaginative aspirations of our early childhood are so soon stamped out by an urgent, oppressive need to be ‘realistic’, brought about at the same time as the acne …