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Causes: Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy
Mission: Youthbuild's mission is to offer young people once in a lifetime opportunity to build their futures and their communities through education, leadership development, job training and the rehabilitation of affordable housing, while keeping a profound respect for and a commitment to a real partnership with youth.
Programs: Help disengranchized youth earn their high school diploma or ged, work towards increased educational capacity and encourage higher education.
teach young people construction and entreprenurial skills through development and production of affordable housing and self-help housing and community revitalization. Helped disenfranchized youth learn responsibility striving towards self sufficiency by learning to respect themselves and their communities.
help youth, upon program completion, obtain meaningful employment at a competitive wage.