Youth Venture is a national nonprofit organization that helps communities enable their young people to launch and run their own constructive organizations.
Young people have an inherent desire to create, contribute, and demonstrate their competence.
However, society's current attitudes and arrangements increasingly thwart their efforts to build. Youth Venture works through a national alliance of local community partners to change these attitudes and arrangements, so that young people, given effective, non-controlling support, can turn their ideas into working organizations. Helps all the youngsters involved to develop the social, teamwork, and leadership skills so necessary in today's increasingly complex society. Helps tip the youth culture of a school or neighborhood as young people experience making a difference and both learn and pass on competency. Soon everyone assumes young people are competent.