Youth Venture

Re: What's a partner? Help!

Hello,
I will try and answer a couple of your questions:

What is a Venture?
"A Venture is a sustainable club, organization, or business created and launched by a young person to make a difference in his/her community." Youth Venture encourages young people like you to start Ventures and will provide up to $1000 in seed funding. You should consider starting one up, you'd make a great leader:
http://www.genv.net/en-us/node/add/yvapply

What is a partner?
"A partnership is a relationship between individuals or groups with similar values and goals." In the context of Ventures, a partner could be a local ice cream shop that supplies you with ice cream for a fundraising event. Partnerships should always benefit both parties. In the example above, your Venture benefits because ice-cream at events = people = exposure for your message/organization, and the ice cream shop benefits because it gets to associate itself with a good cause.

Can you make it as a Venture without a partner?
Yes you can. It really depends on the Venture and the kinds of things you want to do with it. Partnerships can be really helpful because they give you access to people and resources that could really help make your Venture successful.

I hope that helps a bit. Keep on blogging, your comments are great!
- John
Youth Venture
Concord, NH