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Source: World Economic Forum ( weforum.org )    |    Date: August 12, 2025 On International Youth Day 2025, the WEF published stories of young Global Shapers leaders across South Asia producing real community impact: Project Accelerate in Ahmedabad closing the gap between education and employment; Treelionaire in Dhaka growing from one city to a 27-city, 10,000-tree movement across South Asia; ClimaSynth in Peshawar delivering AI-powered climate education tools; and Sitara Da

Source: PBS NewsHour / CoGenerate | Date: August 7, 2025 CoGenerate convened a gathering of leaders across generations in Los Angeles to explore what intergenerational collaboration actually produces for communities. In the filmed conversation, participants — ranging in age from 29 to 73 — described what they had learned from working across generations on real community problems. The central insight: the most important resource older leaders bring is not money or knowledge, b

Source: World Economic Forum | Date: July 2025 The 2025 WEF Global Shapers Innovation Prize — a joint initiative with Accenture and the Global Alliance for YOUth — selected 12 youth-led projects from 10,000 young leaders in 500 cities. Projects range from eliminating $10 million in medical debt for low-income Americans to aquaponics systems feeding students in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Each project pairs direct youth leadership with private sector funding and mentorship — demonstra

Source: World Economic Forum / UNICEF | Date: June 2025 A UNICEF-led Global Coalition for Youth Mental Health study documents a striking finding: Gen Z is not passive about community wellbeing challenges. Six in ten report feeling overwhelmed by global events — and their response is not withdrawal but action. What they are asking for is intergenerational accountability: experienced leadership that partners alongside youth to build solutions, not above them. Businesses, the Co

Source: Deloitte Global | Date: May 14, 2025 Deloitte's 14th annual Gen Z and Millennial Survey — 23,482 respondents across 44 countries — documents a generation redefining what work means. Three-quarters of Gen Zs (75%) and millennials say an organization's community engagement and societal impact are important factors when choosing an employer. Roughly nine in ten (89–92%) say a sense of purpose is important to their job satisfaction. This generation is not asking to be giv

Source: United Nations Youth Office | Date: May 6, 2025 A landmark report from three major global institutions documents what happens when businesses bring younger generations into genuine decision-making — not as consultants, but as co-leaders. Average CEO age is 56.8; global workforce median age is 39.6. That gap, the report argues, is costing communities. Organizations that close it show greater empathy with the communities they serve, longer-term thinking, and stronger go

Source: American Press Institute | Date: April 18, 2025 The American Press Institute documents a growing body of evidence from local communities across the United States: when community problem-solving is explicitly intergenerational — when the experience of those who have been here longest is paired with the energy and relationships of those who will be here next — outcomes improve. The article profiles Baltimore, Sarasota, and Santa Barbara as examples of communities where

Source: Employment and Social Development Canada ( canada.ca )    |    Date: February 27, 2025 The Government of Canada announced over $23 million in new investment through the Youth Employment and Skills Strategy (YESS) Program, supporting 35+ new projects to help 1,600 youth facing barriers to employment. The total YESS investment stands at over $393 million for 2024–28. In 2024, youth aged 15–24 had an unemployment rate of 13.2% — more than double the rate for core-aged ad

Source: World Economic Forum | Date: January 2025 The WEF Global Alliance for YOUth — 25 international companies working together — has created more than 40 million professional development opportunities for young people aged 18–30 over ten years. In 2024, the Alliance and the Global Shapers Community launched an annual Innovation Prize directly linking corporate resources to youth-led community projects. Business investment in young people, the article documents, serves both

Source: Youth Business International ( youthbusiness.org )    |    Date: December 11, 2024 Youth Business International (YBI) — the global network dedicated to empowering young entrepreneurs, operating across 66 members in 85 countries — published its 2024 highlights documenting accelerated global expansion and deepened community impact. Key milestones included welcoming 14 new members from France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Serbia, South Africa, St Lucia, and the UK; lau