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Our One Change

About the Our One Change Initiative

Our One Change is a 12 Session program, offered for high school students, throughout the winter and spring semesters. Workshops are designed to empower youth from diverse backgrounds and experiences to realize their potential to create social change and make a difference in their community.

About Youth Venture

Since 1996, Ashoka’s Youth Venture has pioneered the concept of investing in young people to have the transformative experience of social - entrepreneurship taking initiative to address a social issue that concerns them, launching and leading their own ventures (organizations, businesses or student groups), and creating lasting social change in their communities across the US.

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FEATURED PARTNER

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation focuses on the pressing health and health-care issues facing our country. As the nation’s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans, the foundation works with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful and timely change.

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Program Overview

The Our One Change Initiative was launched in October of 2008 in four major cities: New York, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Washington DC. Check out some of the newest Ventures and see for yourself how youth are creating change across the country.

Want to make a change?

Find out more about Youth Venture's Our One Change program and become a changemaker today!

If you are in high school and live in Washington DC, Seattle, Minneapolis, or New York City contact us so we can send you information about the One Change Initiative in your city.