NYWSE Involved in Youth-to-Youth Social Investment Pitch

One of RSF’s fiscally-sponsored projects, the New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE), hosted an unusual and unprecedented investor pitch session recently in New York City.  What was so unique about the event were the players involved: youth social entrepreneurs from NYWSE pitching their ventures for philanthropic investment to Student Directors of the Fast Forward Fund (FFF), becoming the first youth-to-youth social investment pitch for investments up to $25,000.  Participants from NYWSE’s Incubator Program, which develops new female-led social ventures, presented their pitches to thirteen Student Directors of FFF from Bard College’s Globalization and International Affairs Program.  FFF’s mission is to harness this generation’s financial resources, passion, and energy to advance global sustainability and human dignity.  The six NYWSE Incubator entrepreneurs presented varied nonprofit and for-profit businesses (with triple bottom line missions), ranging from an exercise, nutrition, and stress/time management program for low-income women (Start Your Engine) to an online mentoring/career resource for illiterate young women in India (Illume).  To read about the other ventures and to find out more about the pitch session, click here or  visit: http://www.ywse.org/nywse/nywse-incubator/.

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