Our Partners

YouthBuild International has cultivated local, in-country, and global partnerships. Local partners adapt and implement the program model providing an expanding 'real world' laboratory for testing the efficacy of the YouthBuild approach to education, training, job placement and entrepreneurship. Global partners have enlisted YouthBuild as their designated youth livelihood partner in multiple locations around the world.

YBI seeks partners with these features:

  • Are aligned with YouthBuild values and principles related to youth development
  • Have an established track record of high quality, effective work with young people
  • Demonstrated positive outcomes that correlate youth success with program interventions
  • The necessary organizational infrastructure to pilot, manage, and scale programs; and capture outcomes and learning from the implementation process
  • Ability to mobilize public and private sector resources to support the endeavor

Partners and clients include:

  • American Council on Education
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Brandeis University
  • Catholic Relief Services
  • Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
  • CitiGroup Foundation
  • Civic Initiatives (Serbia)
  • Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
  • Corporation for National and Community Service
  • Department of Housing and Human Settlements (South Africa)
  • Education Development Center
  • Ford Foundation
  • George Brown College (Canada)
  • Grassroots International
  • IDEJEN, Haiti
  • ImagineNations Group
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities
  • Inter-American Development Bank
  • International Youth Foundation
  • Jovenes Constructores de la Communidad (Mexico)
  • Kibble (Scotland)
  • Manitoba Ministry of Education and Training
  • MasterCard Foundation
  • Mercy Corps
  • Ministry of Construction and Housing (State of Israel)
  • National Youth Development Agency (formerly the Umsobomvu Youth Fund) (South Africa)
  • Nokia
  • Nova Scotia Department of Education and Training
  • Plan International
  • Save the Children
  • The Prudential Foundation
  • The Shipyard (Poland)
  • Skoll Foundation
  • Streetfootballworld
  • UN Habitat
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • U.S. Department of Labor
  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • U.S. Department of State
  • U.S. Peace Corps
  • USAID/EQUIP 3 Youth Trust
  • USAID/Southern Africa Mission
  • W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • YouthBuild Saskatchewan (Canada)