Thank you to everyone who attended!

Youth, I.N.C.’s first annual conference for youth-serving nonprofits was a huge success.  Venture Forward with Youth, I.N.C. was attended by 75 nonprofit leaders from 48 organizations serving close to 250,000 youth collectively.  Attendees gained ACCESS, KNOWLEDGE, and POWER through networking and attending sessions on collaborating within the sector, scaling up, metrics, board advancement, branding, and a networking lunch with corporate executives.  Keynote speaker Dan Doctoroff, President of Bloomberg, spoke about the need for the nonprofit and corporate sectors to leverage each other in order to have the greatest possible social impact.  98% of attendees agreed that implementing what they learned would provide impact to their organizations. 

Feedback from conference participants:

"I thought today was an excellent program, with speakers offering detailed and practical thoughts and highlighting the opportunities for nonprofits to leverage resources we might not have known about."

"Speaking as a person jaded by meetings of this type I want to express my enthusiasm for today's proceedings. Every moment was useful and helpful -- meeting other nonprofits, networking with corporate folks, listening to speakers and panelists who were both informative and inspiring. I went away with pages of notes for my 'to do' folder, and can't wait to starting 'doing.'"

"The breakout session was extremely valuable and the facilitator was outstanding. Overall it was an extremely well done conference. It was easy to see it was well-planned and had a great selection of panelists, presenters and keynote."

"Everything was perfect: the space, the networking lunch, but most of all the program and quality of the speakers."

"I'm looking forward to the next one!"

Conference Agenda

Presenter Bios

For additional information or questions regarding the Conference, contact Steviann Martines at smartines@youthinc-usa.org or 212-520-8297.

Photos courtesy of Will Ragozzino Photography