Resources
Making Cents documents the lessons learned, promising practices and innovative ideas for increasing and improving economic opportunities for youth shared at our forums and shares these with you via our practical series of publications and educational materials.
Resources from Making Cents
Youth Economic Opportunities
2012 State of the Field in Youth Economic Opportunities:
A Guide for Programming, Policymaking, and Partnership Building
2010 State of the Field in Youth Enterprise, Employment and Livelihoods Development:
A Guide for Programming, Policymaking, and Partnership Building
2009 State of the Field in Youth Enterprise, Employment and Livelihoods Development: Programming and Policymaking in Youth Enterprise, Employment, and Livelihoods Development; and Youth Inclusive Financial Services.
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2008 State of the Field in Youth Enterprise, Employment and Livelihoods Development
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2007 State of the Field in Youth Enterprise, Employment and Livelihoods Development
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Collaborative Learning and Action for Youth Economic Opportunities Institute
Making Cents support the youth economic opportunities sector by providing an ecosystem of knowledge and learning resources. Based on a collective impact framework, the Collaborative Learning and Action for Youth Economic Opportunities (Col-Lab) Institute is documenting the lessons learned, promising practices and innovative ideas for increasing and improving economic opportunities for youth. Visit www.YouthEconomicOpportunities.org to find the latest and greatest. While you’re there, submit your latest research, toolkit, blog, or other resource.
Col-Lab recognizes that large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination. This framework is in line with Making Cents’ philosophy of “1+1=3”, as no one organization has all the resources, information, expertise, and experience to effectively increase economic opportunities for the millions of young people who currently are unemployed, underemployed, and without sustainable livelihoods. An important dimension of our 2013 Col-Lab Institute is accelerating the sharing and application of relevant information at the field and organizational levels.
Do you have a promising practice, case study, report, publication, or other resource that contributes to building and strengthening the fields of youth enterprise, employment, livelihoods development, and youth-inclusive financial services? We encourage you to contribute to the global dialogue by visiting www.YouthEconomicOpportunities.org and submitting your latest innovations, research, best practices, tools or other resources.