Running the Marathon for Ashoka's Youth Venture
From: Vipin Thekkekalathil <tvipin@ashoka.org>
Date: 2009/8/18
Subject: Introducing Ashoka's Youth Venture
Dear friends,
Thank you for so promptly agreeing to support Youth Venture. Once we register you, please create a pledge page on the marathon site and help us to raise more money from your friends and family, by asking them to support your run. All the donations to Youth venture is exempt under Income Tax act.
Also please pass the below information about YV to your friends who might be interested as 21st august is the last date to register. We are charging rs. 3000 each. Have only 25 seats available so the sooner I hear from them the better.
Thanks a ton folks!
Ashoka’s Youth Venture.
Youth Venture is a global movement that inspires, invests, and supports young people to lead social change.
We believe it is critical that people discover early on in their lives that they can lead social change. We invest in young people to design and lead their own initiatives that create social impact.
We do this through a one year fellowship, where we support them to create entrepreneurial Ventures around a social issue they feel passionate about. As they form teams and work together in creating and launching their ‘Ventures’, young people learn the important skills of leadership, teamwork, entrepreneurship and empathy. They also realize that they are powerful and will continue to take initiative and lead again and again throughout their lives.
Established by Ashoka, the world’s leading association of social entrepreneurs and the pioneer of the social entrepreneurship movement, Youth Venture is nurturing young people’s dreams and providing them with mentorship and seed capital to help them initiate change in their communities
In the last 18 months, we have supported 79 young changemakers and their teams, in Mumbai and Songadh (a district in Rural Gujarat). See the attached document and www.genv.net/india. Watch our Changemakers in action at
Thank you for your interest in supporting Youth Venture at the Mumbai Marathon. Below is further details of our work. As I mentioned over the phone we count on the Marathon to raise the resources to invest in young people in Mumbai. Do let me know your ideas on how you can support the cause of young people leading social change.
Warmly,
Vipin.T
Director
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