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Description: The Ashoka Foundation's Youth Venture® is an international community of young people who create and launch their own sustainable, community-benefiting ventures. Youth Venture currently operates in 18 countries and online at www.GenV.net. Using Learn and Serve America funds, Youth Venture is building an online service-learning platform to provide an online service-learning platform to provide an interactive online experience for young social entrepreneurs that will launch early in 2010. A Facebook game called Impact, Inc. has also been introduced to serve a similar though less comprehensive purpose, teaching players what it is like to run a nonprofit. Youth Venture has meanwhile allocated Learn and Serve America funding toward seed grants for social ventures designed by undergraduate students and, using an online voting process, will select grand prize winners to receive supplementary funding for those ventures.
http://www.ashoka.org/youthventure
