{"id":1739,"date":"2016-07-08T23:09:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T17:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/volunteers.org\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2016-07-11T22:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T16:53:17","slug":"ashoka-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/ashoka-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashoka Innovators for the Public Youth Venture Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear young social innovators,<\/p>\n<p>Ashoka India: Innovators for the Public is recruiting our third cohort of Youth Venturers and we want you to apply!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfaforms.com\/399018\">live application link<\/a> and for more details about the application please look at the poster attached to this email.<\/p>\n<p>What is the Youth Venture program you ask?<\/p>\n<p>Ashoka India&#8217;s Youth Venture program works with the belief that one of the most effective ways to drive social change is to empower young people to realize their own ability to make positive social change. We are looking for young minds who believe in pushing the boundaries of innovation to find answers to social problems and who exhibit traits like leadership and empathy.<\/p>\n<p>Selected candidates receive support in the form of extensive mentorship and training through a structured program, and become part of Ashoka&#8217;s Global network of Social Innovators &amp; Entrepreneurs. The program is completely free and travel and accommodations for events will be reimbursed.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look here to learn more about a few of our current Youth Venturers <a href=\"http:\/\/india.ashoka.org\/ashoka-india%E2%80%99s-youth-venture-celebrates-15-young-social-innovators-and-entrepreneurs\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And please look here for an <a href=\"http:\/\/india.ashoka.org\/youth-venturing-and-ashoka-baby-steps-social-entrepreneurship\">informative blog post<\/a> about one of our workshops written by a current Youth Venturer<\/p>\n<p>To apply to become a Youth Venturer you must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be a young Indian between 12 and 20 years<\/li>\n<li>Have already started an initiative that has a social impact<\/li>\n<li>Embody principles of leadership, teamwork, empathy and creativity in your work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We really hope you consider applying! The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tfaforms.com\/399018\">live application link again<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ashoka website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/india.ashoka.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/india.ashoka.<wbr \/>org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any queries contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:sjoshi@ashoka.org\" target=\"_blank\">sjoshi@ashoka.org<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"tel:7506889034\" target=\"_blank\">7506889034<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear young social innovators, Ashoka India: Innovators for the Public is recruiting our third cohort of Youth Venturers and we want you to apply! The live application link and for more details about the application please look at the poster attached to this email. What is the Youth Venture program you ask? Ashoka India&#8217;s Youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/YV_Primary_PMS_WBG_0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volunteers.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}