Youth Enterprise & Employment
Strategy Outline
Young people face unique barriers to entering the workforce and setting up enterprises because of the policies, attitudes and culture that now exist in all Western countries. In New Zealand, Maori and Pacific youth experience high unemployment rates. As the labour force ages, new links, brokers and initiatives are needed to ensure national productivity is not reduced by a lack of young, skilled labour.
The Foundation can best assist this process through:
- Collaboration with government, business, employers, trainers, other funders and key organisations
- By funding catalyst and brokerage organisations which have a proven track record and measurable targets to get young people into employment or enterprise
- By supporting research into the barriers youth uniquely face and ways these might be overcome through proven new models and testing of innovative approaches.
All applications under this Strategy are made directly to the Foundation via online application.
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