OUR PROGRAMS

THE ANNUAL YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS (AYAA)

  • THE ANNUAL YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS supports the YouthUSA mission with online capacity building. YouthUSA qualifies youth beneficiaries for inclusion by maintaining globally accessible online processes.
  • Past funding provided administrative and technical consultation to design and sustain the on-line application which results in caring adult capacity around qualifying youth applicants. Program expenses maintain interactive web forms, secure collaboration software, travel and lodging to provide technical assistance for qualifying beneficiaries. In 2024, the program invited applicants from Sub-Saharan African countries to model a replicable reparations trust. Generation Alpha applicants from the United States of America, the Kingdom of Lesotho (East Africa), and the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire (West Africa) engaged as “Secret Millionaires” through a demonstration project funded by YouthUSA.

  • ANNUAL APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 15TH
  • Population(s) Served
  • Economically disadvantaged people
  • Interfaith groups
  • People of African descent
  • Cross-generational ages

The YouthUSA news and information program creates learning opportunities in media arts. The service integrates produced informative videos from seven feeder channels, informative feature articles and photographs in an interactive, internet blog format. The service provides beneficiaries and stakeholders with interactive tools for presenting ideas and opportunities for consideration by the YouthUSA Board of Directors.BlogMultimediaVirtual Community Engagement
Population(s) Served  Economically disadvantaged people Interfaith groups At-risk youth Children, youth and young adults Adults

TheEnterpriZe Social Enterprise Incubator

  • TheEnterpriZe incubator program of YouthUSA develops sustainable small business solutions. This social enterprise program incubated TheEnterpriZe, LLC, a certified U.S. Veteran-owned management consulting company.
  •  Establishes stakeholder equity through LLC member units.  Certifies trustees for a replicable reparations trust.
  •  Models a U.S. Government Contract for "Whole of Government" Economic Security.
  • The YouthUSA Endowment Strategy promotes inclusion through a revenue generating, youth-led small business. The Free African Society (FAS2) is a developing joint-venture enterprise brand which could be funded through a World Bank Umbrella Trust.
  • Population(s) Served
  •  Economically disadvantaged people
  •  Interfaith groups
  •  Veterans
  •  Self-employed people
  •  Extremely poor people
  •  Youth and young adults

The J.D. and Laurena Walker Fund

This development program supports grant-making through qualifying youth beneficiaries. The fund honors holistic human investment by Americans such as J.D. and Laurena Walker of Philadelphia. These "ordinary” people left a legacy of self-help, self-improvement, collective faith, work and service from which THE ANNUAL YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS program evolved. The development fund, established by Evelyn Walker Armstrong, daughter of J.D. and Laurena Walker, supports a $5 million endowment for annual funding and management of YouthUSA Charitable Operations. On-going crowdfunding for a replicable $100 million reparations trust supports small family trusts across the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa. Current Development Partnerships A YouthUSA Fellowship begins to define a financial foundation (Individual Development Account) for a beneficiary’s economic sustainability. Population(s) Served  Economically disadvantaged people Interfaith groups At-risk youth Children and youth
Grant Development to support outcome-based economic security
 Healing Feeding Housing Learning Earning Living Giving
Process Research Planning Submission Approval Appropriation Funding Assessment

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