Southwest Youth Collaborative Proposing a New Direction for Social Change By Evelyn Carter

The Organization A progressive non-for profit organization established in 1992 located in Chicago

Initiate Positive Direction

• Initiate social change measures

• • Provide creative activist projects

• • Influence leadership

• • Increase fundraising resources

• • Inspire effective community enrichment

Technology and Media

• Initiate Do it Yourself Productions for Marketing Social Change

• • Create monthly short activist videos

• • Sell tickets

• • Perform theatrical skits to promote the practice of open innovation

• • Add documentaries for cultural enrichment

Family Support

• Youth Survey

• • Connect thru support measures

• • Pass out surveys to increase enrollment

• • Network thru traveling

• • • Mail back

• • • Email

• • Postsecondary Needs Assessment

• • Postsecondary Lab Awareness

Partnering Opportunity

• Mobile Giving Foundation

• • SWYC organization can accept donations over the mobile phone

• • Taking $5 donations for each mobile donation

• • Sends messages regularly to keep them involved

• • Helps in marketing and building business relationships

Partnering Opportunity

• Joe Corbis Food

• • Manage an online ordering service with our Food Specialties Internship

• • A great source to partner with and sell their products

• • Sponsor various fundraiser projects

Southwest Youth Collaborative

• Director Impact on social change

• • Apprenticeship program with successful marketable job skills

• • Increased technology team efforts

• • Vibrant quality connected communities

Southwest Youth Collaborative

• Links

• • (Southwest Youth Collaborative [SWYC], 1994). http://www.swyc.org/

• • Mobile Giving Foundation. (2009). http://www.mobilegiving.ca/

• • Joe Corbi. (2010). Programs. http://www.joecorbi.com/