Benefits

Being an active member of the YABT Membership Network will benefit your company by giving you:

• Access to a network of more than 100,000 dynamic, enterprising young entrepreneurs in thirty-four countries in the Americas region, leading to business, trade and investment opportunities. These young people represent the best that the Americas has to offer to build the competitiveness of business in the region as employees, partners, and entrepreneurs. YABT organizes leadership events throughout the year to which you will be invited to meet young entrepreneurs and OAS leaders.

• Public recognition by YABT and the OAS as an engaged, responsible business leader in the growing market of young people in the Americas through our websites, high-level events, promotions, TV, and press releases. YABT Membership Network members can also make their support known to the public through their own websites and media campaigns.

• Strategic alliance with the prestige of the OAS, the premier forum for dialogue and common action of the countries of the Americas. YABT is aligned with the purposes and initiatives of the OAS that promote good governance, economic and social development.

• Opportunities to network in YABT’s programs and activities, connecting you to national YABTs. YABT’s staffs of enterprising young people and organizations have achieved their success through hard work. Our small business provider networks offer enormous value to multinational companies. YABT people are simply good to work with and do business with.

YABT in Numbers

• More than 17,000 young people trained in 29 countries across the Americas region, in topics such as: Agribusiness, Biotechnology, Tourism, SMEs, among others. The Business Labs will be part of the official curricula in every high school in Panama.

• Over 8,000 young people from the 34 OAS Member States provided their recommendations for the IV OAS Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, in 2005.

• Network of more than 100,000 dynamic, enterprising young entrepreneurs in 34 countries in the Americas region, leading to business, trade and investment opportunities. These young people represent the best that the Americas has to offer to build the competitiveness of business in the region as employees, partners, and entrepreneurs.

• For the first time in the history of the OAS, young people opinions and recommendations were presented to the 34 OAS Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives at a Special Session of the OAS Permanent Council. YABT took the lead with other OAS departments in recruiting more than 300 young people to actively participate and be part of the decision making process within the OAS framework.

• Organize over 50 international videoconferences with the World Bank Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) in the past five years, bringing together countries from the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

• Conducted a mapping exercise in Guyana, reaching more than 640 youth organizations reaching even the most distant regions in the country. This project was part of an Inter-American Development (IDB) USD 10 million loan for youth development.

• Currently, YABT has programs operating in 29 out of the 34 OAS Member States and joint programs under development in Africa and Asia.

• More than 150 enthusiastic and energetic staff and volunteers throughout the countries in the Americas, including at the YABT headquarters in Washington D.C. and seven established offices across Latin America and the Caribbean such as Brazil, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Uruguay.