Who Benefits and How?

Students
First and foremost, Youth Enterprise students benefit spiritually, academically, and financially both in the immediate term and the long run. Our hope is that we can walk alongside our students, encourage and support them through graduation, and prepare them with the necessary values, skills, and vision to become successful in the career endeavors they choose to pursue. This success will in turn provide a trickledown effect that benefits their families and communities for the rest of their lives.

Families
Many of our students are from a cycle of broken families that often plagues the areas in which we serve. We aim to develop our students into mature young adults that can act as spiritual leaders within their households.

Communities
As these students develop into mature young adults, we hope they will become positive leaders in their communities. They can become alternative role models to the drug dealers and gang members that many of the kids in their neighborhood and school look up to. In addition we hope that their church involvement will grow and that they can begin to volunteer in other neighborhood and church organizations.

Volunteers
At Youth Enterprise, our adult volunteer team has been limited to a few talented and gracious people in the last year. We hope to grow this team over the next year and involve more adults from the neighborhood and surrounding communities. The Youth Enterprise program provides incredible opportunities for servants of Christ to reap the rewards of cross-cultural relationships and true relational ministry. We believe that these relationships can grow into life changing experiences as our volunteers work hands on and actually see lives being changed as their own lives change as well.

Donors
As with most nonprofit ministries, Youth Enterprise is always looking for people, churches, and organizations who feel compelled to support us financially. Unlike other philanthropic opportunities, Youth Enterprise gives our financial supporters a chance to be involved hands on. We are always looking for volunteers to share with our students about their careers and the rewards and challenges surrounding them.

The other unique aspect of our program is that it is over 85%financially self-sustaining. The sale of our t-shirts provides most of the revenue required for day-to-day operations. We are, however, looking for capital investments to expand the reach of our ministry by moving into additional locations. We also believe that upfront investments in these students will benefit society in the long run by helping them develop to be highly employable adults thereby reducing them from the number of people relying on state support for their livelihood.

Cash donations can be made through JustGive.org