TELUS Friendly Future Foundation is offering up to $1M CAD in funding to support partnerships between innovators and charities working in one or more of the following areas:

- Prevention and intervention to improve youth mental health

- Lack of access to housing (youth homelessness)

- Barriers to youth education and employment

- Making our communities safer and more inclusive for youth

As we move into a new stage in the global pandemic, it’s become increasingly clear that youth have been disproportionately affected by this major social and economic upheaval. Youth-serving organizations have been sounding the alarm while working hard to meet increased demand with reduced resources. Risk factors that already made some youth vulnerable to negative short- and long-term outcomes have been amplified. Without new approaches and innovative thinking, these challenges will become further entrenched.

Successful outcomes of this Challenge will impact the charitable sector in Canada and the people they serve in the following ways: Breakthrough Ideas, Holistic Solutions and Creativity.

Through this Challenge we will encourage alternative ways of approaching the issues, challenging the status quo by enabling charities to do things differently. This will be achieved by infusing creative thinking and innovation. We will encourage a more holistic, integrated and collaborative approach in delivering comprehensive solutions (vs. point solutions that address or solve a single problem).

This two phase challenge seeks to identify and test approaches that can make our communities more livable for our youth, and address areas pertaining to mental health, education, employment, inclusiveness and other factors that go into helping youth thrive.

Link to the opportunity: https://www.herox.com/SolutionsForYouth?from=explore

Suport en la inscripció: valoritzacio@udg.edu