YOUth No. 3, Citizen Youth: Action Takes Root, IYF’s Global Youth Leadership Program Goes Local

This article by Sheila Kinkade appeared in the Spring 2009 edition of YOUth magazine. Kinkade is the Manager of Marketing and Communications at the International Youth Foundation (IYF). In this article, she discusses how IYF’s YouthActionNet® program is taking root at a national level, offering potentially hundreds of young leaders in their own countries the skills, opportunities, and recognition to drive change in their communities.

IYF publishes YOUth magazine to provide a global audience of donors, civil society organizations, governments, and youth leaders with news and commentary around the theme of positive youth development.