By Nickolas Bagley, Youth Today, Image: Unsplash via Crowdstack, February 12, 2025
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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Youth Employment, Job/Career Training, Low-Income Youth/Communities, Youth Leadership, Entrepreneurship
Deadline: Mar. 4, 2025
“The Global Innovation Challenge provides philanthropic support to community organizations that are developing innovative solutions to social and economic challenges facing low-income communities around the world. Through the Global Innovation Challenge, Citi Foundation will provide a collective $25 million to 50 community organizations working to accelerate youth employability.
Building on our funding journey, this year’s Global Innovation Challenge is focused on youth employability, and we invite proposals from community organizations developing innovative employment solutions for low-income youth primarily between the ages of 15 and 24. These innovative solutions could include, but are not limited to:
- Technical and vocational training programs that upskill or reskill low-income youth and move them into employment, which could include paid internships, apprenticeships or formal employment.
- Entrepreneurship programming that specifically focuses on the incubation or scaling of youth-led enterprises to increase job creation and access to self- generated income.
- Efforts to embed financial education programming into workforce development initiatives equipping low-income youth with financial skills and access to safe and affordable financials tools.”
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