The Tactics of Hope

The Tactics of Hope written by Wilford Welch and edited by David Hopkins was recently published in April 2008 features the Philippine Youth Employment Network as well as YouthWorks. The book "highlights the initiatives of twenty-seven social entrepreneurs who have identified solutions to restore the environment and to alleviate the plight of the extreme poor. The stories of these social entrepreneurs are rich with insight."

You can get the books from your local bookstore or to find out more, visit The Tactics of Hope website

Financial Times Article on YouthWorks

Sarrah Murray of the Financial Times wrote several articles about young social entrepreneurs for the Financial Time's special feature "Investing in Young People".

In her article, Ms. Murray wrote, "Raising funds through family and friends, Ms Codera pulled together enough money to offer loans to three young people. These loans were repaid within three months. “There’s one thing that can be learned by everyone from our experience,” she says. “That young people can be trusted with money and they will do well with it.”..."

For the full article, visit Financial Times

YouthWorks Founder is IYF's YouthAction Net Fellow 2007

WASHINGTON - November 2007. Audrey Codera received her International Youth Foundation's YouthAction Net Fellowship 2007 for YouthWorks. During the week, Audrey participated in the workshop and had the chance to meet people in various fields working towards providing young people with resources to continue their work in affecting change.

The YouthAction Net Fellows 2007 are:
Abhishek Bharadwaj, Alternative Realities
Ainos Ngadya, SOYABIZ
Ana Moraga, MuJeres por la Justicia, Educación y el Reconocimeiento
Anna Rose, Australian Youth Climate Coalition
Antoine Eloi, Leadership Initiatives
Audrey Codera, YouthWorks Inc.
Bernise Ang, SYINC
Cheryl Perera, OneChild
John Miller Beauvoir, The Pathway Toward the Future
Maritza Morales, Hunab Theme Park: Education to Guarantee Sustainable Development
Neilesh Patel, HealthCare Volunteer
Rachel Nampinga, EcoWatch
Tal Dehtiar, MBAs Without Borders
Talia Delgado, Brainstorming: An Investigative International View
Tom Dawkins, VibeWire Inc
Vanja Hamzic, Logos
Zablon Wagalla, Trees for Clean Energy

The video of the relaxed IYF YouthActionNet 2007 Fellows is in JumpCut.

UN GA Youth Side Event

NEW YORK - 7 October 2007. YouthWorks' Audrey Codera was the keynote speaker at the UN General Assembly Youth Side Event hosted by the German Permanent Delegation to the UN. Present in the event was the Philippines' National Youth Commissioner Mike Lopez.

Preparatory Event for the Global Forum on Youth and ICT for Development

NEW YORK - 12 September 2007. YouthWorks joined ICT practitioners, ICT-based youth-serving non-profits and other policy makers at the UN Headquarters in New York in the Web Seminar Series on ICT Policy Issues for Development in preparation for the Global Forum on Youth and ICT for Development taking place on September 24-26 in Geneva.

The Webinar archive can be seen at:
Preparatory Event for the Global Forum on Youth and ICT for Development

MCIT Creativity4Peace Award Given to YouthWorks

EGYPT - 1 to 3 September 2007. YouthWorks received the Creativity4Peace Award from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's Cyber Peace Initiative project together with Hewlett Packard during the International Youth Forum 2007 held in Sharm El Sheikh.

Along with nearly 600 youth from 100 coutries, its founder planted trees, joined the run/walk for peace and had the chance to speak at the closing session on the power of youth for peace.
(photo courtesy of MCIT)

ASEAN Meeting on Youth and ICT

YANGON - March 7-9, 2007. YouthWorks was one of the youth expert organizations invited by the ASEAN Regional Capacity Building Workshop to Promote Youth-Initiated (ICT) Enterprises to present its model project on the use ICT for youth development.