Volunteer Coach -Youth Grant Pitch Contest
The 2024 Social Capital Inc. Youth Grant Pitch Contest is an initiative designed to engage community-focused youth-led groups in a process of developing projects that respond to a need in the community, with an emphasis on mental health-related projects. Participating youth groups from the Greater Boston area commit to a 6-session learning experience that puts them in the driver’s seat of positive change, while providing the guidance, monetary resources, and social capital needed to make a real impact.
What is the Youth Grant Pitch Contest?
An in-person event where a panel of judges award $10,000 worth of grants to a minimum of 7 youth teams who will have until November 2024 to complete their respective projects. To prepare, youth teams will be paired with two Pitch Coaches who will mentor them throughout the project proposal development phase.
SCI is looking to engage adult volunteers for the following opportunity:
-Pitch Coach: An individual experienced in project management, entrepreneurship, sales, business, finance, or community development, who is willing & able to commit to 6 one-hour sessions during February and March of 2024. Primary coaching needs will be in project planning, presentation development, and public speaking. The timing of volunteer hours is flexible and will be coordinated between coaches & youth groups with SCI support. Need 20 volunteers. Sign up by January 12, 2024!
Interested in getting involved as a volunteer pitch coach or know of a youth group that would like to participate? Fill out this coach interest form https://forms.gle/a87j4grX27G6kgBA6 or contact SCI Program Operations Coordinator, Nicole Osborne, at nosborne@socialcapitalinc.org or by phone at 252-347-8849.
Check out our website to learn more about the SCI YGPC program and its impact! https://socialcapitalinc.org/ygpc --- The Youth Grant Pitch Contest program is supported by Kick It for a Cause, Winning Home, Inc., the AmeriCorps Agency, Massachusetts Service Alliance, and a Massachusetts state budget line item, thanks to the advocacy of State Senator Cindy Friedman. Major support for SCI Woburn is provided by Cummings Properties.