Market Validation for the ImpactFirst Accelerator Project
YIC is looking to launch an accelerator for youth-led non-profits in late 2024 or 2025. This project will look to provide youth-led ventures in the non-profit or cooperative space with funding, education, networks & mentorship to help grow and ultimately sustain their ventures long-term, with an eye on ensuring their impact can be maintained over time. To do this, we are looking to gain a better understanding of the ecosystem that exists within our space to support youth non-profit founders, especially as we look to launch in late 2024 or 2025 an accelerator for youth non-profit founders. We believe this accelerator will be among the first of its kind for youth at a nationwide level, but recognize that there are likely support networks already there that we should understand and look to leverage where possible. Equally, we want to conduct interviews and surveys with youth currently running such non-profit or cooperative ventures to better understand their challenges. This will help in program design and help in a more systematic way to validate findings from internal conversations that we have had with young youth founders across Canada.
Brand Identity and Graphic Design
Our company is looking to solidify our identity and revamp the sponsorship prospectus that we currently have as well as other social media advertising assets. We are looking to better connect with our audience by standing out and being memorable while also being able to use the designs the students offer in a corporate setting. We are looking for real designs that we could use in our branding as well as general branding knowledge. The right candidate would work to create consistent promotional branding and create a sponsorship prospectus and sponsorship and social media collateral for us. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Researching the brand identity. Sponsorship and Social media design proposals that reflect who we are Work to create a branding guide for us to reference Help create prototypes using software tools that can be implemented in our marketing Creating custom branding sheets with colours and logos.
Grant Writing & Partnership Development
The main goal of this project is to help the team in securing funding for the Youth Impact Challenge and develop strategic partnerships to support our mission and initiatives. This includes sustaining and expanding programs aimed at empowering young changemakers and fostering innovation to address social and environmental challenges. As such we would like to collaborate with students to find and complete grant applications or other prospective funders. This will involve several different steps, including: Familiarizing themselves with our mission, vision and projects Contributing to the ongoing development of documentation like a funding prospectus that better captures the impact of our past work and the need for future funding Identifying potential sponsors and funding opportunities that are a good fit for our organization and project, while adding these to our prospect list Improving the clarity and persuasiveness of our company's grant proposal writing, working closely with senior management on such proposals Identifying new opportunities for projects that YIC can take on in alignment with our mission, needs for youth in the innovation space and funder priorities
Marketing and Social Media Intern
Our marketing and social media intern will be given the opportunity to shape the branding of our organization, while also playing a key role in delivering our social media strategy for the year 2024/2025. The intern will work closely with the leadership team.
Grant Writing & Partnership Development
The main goal of this project is to help the team in securing funding for the Youth Impact Challenge and develop strategic partnerships to support our mission and initiatives. This includes sustaining and expanding programs aimed at empowering young changemakers and fostering innovation to address social and environmental challenges. As such we would like to collaborate with students to find and complete grant applications or other prospective funders. This will involve several different steps, including: Familiarizing themselves with our mission, vision and projects Contributing to the ongoing development of documentation like a funding prospectus that better captures the impact of our past work and the need for future funding Identifying potential sponsors and funding opportunities that are a good fit for our organization and project, while adding these to our prospect list Improving the clarity and persuasiveness of our company's grant proposal writing, working closely with senior management on such proposals Identifying new opportunities for projects that YIC can take on in alignment with our mission, needs for youth in the innovation space and funder priorities
Market Validation for the ImpactFirst Accelerator Project
YIC is looking to launch an accelerator for youth-led non-profits in late 2024 or 2025. This project will look to provide youth-led ventures in the non-profit or cooperative space with funding, education, networks & mentorship to help grow and ultimately sustain their ventures long-term, with an eye on ensuring their impact can be maintained over time. To do this, we are looking to gain a better understanding of the ecosystem that exists within our space to support youth non-profit founders, especially as we look to launch in late 2024 or 2025 an accelerator for youth non-profit founders. We believe this accelerator will be among the first of its kind for youth at a nationwide level, but recognize that there are likely support networks already there that we should understand and look to leverage where possible. Equally, we want to conduct interviews and surveys with youth currently running such non-profit or cooperative ventures to better understand their challenges. This will help in program design and help in a more systematic way to validate findings from internal conversations that we have had with young youth founders across Canada.
Brand Identity and Graphic Design
Our company is looking to solidify our identity and revamp the sponsorship prospectus that we currently have as well as other social media advertising assets. We are looking to better connect with our audience by standing out and being memorable while also being able to use the designs the students offer in a corporate setting. We are looking for real designs that we could use in our branding as well as general branding knowledge. The right candidate would work to create consistent promotional branding and create a sponsorship prospectus and sponsorship and social media collateral for us. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Researching the brand identity. Sponsorship and Social media design proposals that reflect who we are Work to create a branding guide for us to reference Help create prototypes using software tools that can be implemented in our marketing Creating custom branding sheets with colours and logos.
Translation Intern (EN to FR)
While YIC has historically focused on developing English-first content, we envision becoming a nationwide organization and are hence prioritizing bilingualism at this time, with a key opportunity being to explore ways to create a foundation for delivering a fully bilingual competition in time. You would help us try to reach Francophone communities in Canada with our mission and vision.
Marketing and Social Media Intern
Our marketing and social media intern will be given the opportunity to shape the branding of our organization, while also playing a key role in delivering our social media strategy for the year 2023/2024. The intern will work closely with the leadership team.
Market Validation Study
We are looking to gain a better understanding of the ecosystem that exists within our space to ensure we are positioning ourselves in the right segment, offering adequate support, and creating the best value for youth. We're essentially looking to do an ecosystem analysis on what's already out there for nonprofits and youth social impact organizations in Canada, and internationally even. To accomplish this, you could focus on providing: A complete analysis of our current offerings, our target market, and the positioning of our brand. Conducting empirical interviews and/or questionnaires for feedback on our brand, product, service, etc. Executing further market research to develop a comprehensive report of our target market. We hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of our target market and how we can better satisfy their needs. We're aiming to answer a few questions for ourselves such as whether or not to adopt a fellowship program at YIC, and more.