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Expanding our reach and engaging more voices 2024 Youth Summits – New South Wales and Victoria
Salesforce and Canaccord Genuity, together with our Raise team, ensured the summits were fun, engaging, supportive, and well-structured. Expanding the summits to Melbourne doubled the insights and broadened the reach of this dynamic forum. A powerful highlight was having so many Raise alumni participate in the summits. Incorporating lived experiences in our program design ensures our mentoring programs remain effective and impactful. We’re not done yet – youth engagement at Raise will continue to grow in 2025. We are expanding the YAC to include under 18s, as well as offering these invaluable summits in more states and territories. Watch this space. Working with Raise graduate mentees Another rewarding part of youth engagement is talking to graduate mentees and hearing their powerful stories about how Raise has helped them change their lives. We are grateful to Jess, a Raise graduate for sharing her story on camera. This video will help Raise share its impact to funders, mentors, parents and young people. We are also grateful to all the graduates who attended the Youth Summits for their insights and reflections on their time in the Raise program.
We were thrilled to host two Youth Summits in 2024. In Sydney, we co-hosted with Salesforce. While, for the first time ever, we co-hosted a summit in Melbourne with our principal partner Canaccord Genuity. Raise’s Youth Summits play a crucial role in capturing feedback from young people, ensuring their input is embedded in the evolving design and enhancement of our program delivery. A highlight this year was hosting 16 Raise alumni mentees who had graduated from our mentorship programs in prior years. Their experience was invaluable, giving us insight into life after graduating and the long-term impact of Raise mentoring. Across these two events, 26 young participants came together for one-day design workshops. Participants were in grades 9, 10 and 11 from two New South Wales school partners – Dulwich High School of Visual Arts, and Matraville Sports High, and three school partners in Victoria – Templestowe College, Broadford Secondary College, and Koonung Secondary College. The groups were presented with real challenges facing Raise, such as bridging the generation gap, promoting Raise, growing fundraising opportunities, and building lasting connections with Raise graduates in preparation for longitudinal research. Working together, they applied design-thinking to develop creative solutions with support from the invaluable Salesforce and Canacord Genuity mentors. In Sydney, the day ended with a ‘Shark Tank’ exercise where each group had the opportunity to pitch their ideas back to the cohort.
Below: (from left) YAC members, Zali and Ash speaking at Raise webinars; 2024 Youth Summit participation.
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