Our Supporters

The Arthur Guinness Fund

The Arthur Guinness Fund is an internal program set up to further the legacy of Arthur Guinness and support social entrepreneurs around the world.   The fund was launched and set up in 2009 to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the lease for the St. James’s Gate Brewery. Guinness & Co is committed through The Arthur Guinness Fund to identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs globally with the skills and support required to deliver a measurable, transformational change to communities around the world. For more information, click here

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

The Kauffman Foundation is the world’s leading foundation dedicated to entrepreneurship.  It was founded by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman.  Recognizing that his path to success could and should be achieved by more people, Mr. Kauffman directed his foundation to support entrepreneurship and to promote “a society of economically independent individuals who are engaged citizens, contributing to the improvement of their communities.”

The Foundation’s entrepreneurship team works to catalyze a society in which job creation, innovation, and the economy flourish. They work on multiple fronts to research, educate and implement programs that promote business creation and social enterprise in a broad spectrum of communities around the world.

Both the Kauffman Foundation and Youth Business America recognize the importance of entrepreneurship in society, and are aware of the steps necessary to help bright young individuals become successful entrepreneurs in the 21st century.

Barclays Capital

Barclays Capital is the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC, a leading global financial institution. Since the acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ North America businesses, Barclays Capital has expanded its capabilities in the Americas.

Barclays Capital is actively involved in providing support, help, and commitment to the communities in which it works. It focuses on supporting programs that take a transformational approach to solving social problems and selects those where it can make the greatest positive impact, applying its expertise and financial resources as well as the time and skills of its people. Barclays Capital’s commitment to YBA engages its employees’ talents at many levels of the organization to extend the reach of YBA’s program and to amplify the benefit of the financial support it provides to YBA.

Barclays Capital is a member of Youth Business International’s Patrons Council.

Deloitte

Deloitte is a global brand under which 169,000 dedicated professionals in independent firms throughout the world collaborate to provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management and tax services to selected clients.  These firms are members of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (“DTT”), a Swiss Verein.  In the United States, Deloitte LLP is the member firm of DTT and provides services through its subsidiaries.

Deloitte provides generous support of YBA through in-kind donations of consulting services and tax advice and through its employees engaging in volunteer activities supporting YBA’s mission.  In June, 2010  on Deloitte’s “Impact Day”, 15 Deloitte consultants and Tax experts met at YBA’s office and focused their expertise on projects to help YBA define and determine the scope of its infrastructure planning and development needs. As a group and individually they demonstrated their passion for the missions of YBA and YBI in helping communities around the world build a better future by supporting young entrepreneurship.

Deloitte is a member of Youth Business International’s Patrons Council.  Robert Massey, a Partner with Deloitte Tax LLP, is a member of Youth Business America’s Board of Directors.

The Althea Foundation

The Althea Foundation was a founding sponsor of YBA, providing support and funding for the development of  YBA’s corporate non-profit entity and logistical support for its operations. Through Althea’s support leading to the formation of YBA, it was presented by YBI as an initiative at the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative where it received its initial funding from the Arthur Guinness Fund in 2009.

The Althea Foundation is a social venture fund dedicated to helping  agents of change reach the full potential of their inspired ideas. It has developed a distinctive approach to engaging with their initiatives, providing the support and guidance they need to increase their impact and grow their social innovations to scale.

Its investment in a program is based on 3 guiding criteria: A project must be low-cost, scalable, and invaluable to society. It focuses on initiatives that address issues in the most neglected areas that might otherwise be left behind in the philanthropic world.  To-date it has helped 13 visionary people and institutions realize their ambition and successfully launch programs that are improving the lives of thousands of people around the world.  Althea’s Founder and Chair, Alexsis deRaadt St. James, is a member of Youth Business America’s Board of Directors.

Volunteers

We would like to thank all of our volunteers who played an important role in helping YBA organize bringing the concept of a Youth Business Program into operation and to those who will continue to play a vital role in expanding YBA’s program to help more young people positively impact our communities through the creation of new businesses.

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