2025-03-29T14:46:50-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 204945833 YOUTH ACHIEVERS USA INSTITUTE YOUT 6787521264 1300 Ridenhour Blvd NW Ste 100 Kennesaw GA 30152 Stephanie Stradford Chief Executive Officer 6787521264 2025-03-29 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X https://www.YouthUSA.net X X 5811 X 308 124 0 5379 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5811 18000 0 0 14786 1200 0 0 33986 -28175 169993 0 141818 169993 141818 0 0 0 0 169993 141818 0 0 169993 141818 Youth Achievers USA Institute (YouthUSA), a 501c3 public charity committed to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1 (No Poverty), demonstrates a win-win UNSDG 17 Partnership with The Joint SDG Fund, an inter-agency, pooled mechanism for integrated policy support and strategic financing and The World Bank. Beginning in January, the charity sponsored a 10-member virtual delegation to demonstrate cost-effective engagement for "Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises: the effective delivery of sustainable, resilient and innovative solutions". The 2024 Partnership Forum of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) was held on 30 January 2024 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, USA. The charity applied for recognition as an NGO operating in Lesotho and Cote d'Ivoire. No government or World Bank funding was solicited to support this mission. THE ANNUAL YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS (AYAA) is a proprietary circular capacity building program created by YouthUSA Founder Stephanie A. Walker Stradford. In 2024, the program used Microsoft Sharepoint collaboration software to demonstrate capacity building in support of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, NoPoverty2030 MissionPossible. Two Sub-Saharan Africa communities of faith identified beneficiaries of FAITH FAMILY TRUSTS using THE ANNUAL YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS program model. Two Generation Alpha beneficiaries in the Kingdom of Lesotho, a UN identified LDC (Least Developed Country), surrounded by South Africa, and three Generation Alpha beneficiaries in Ivory Coast, a country on the southern coast of West Africa. A 20k USD appropriation from the J.D. and Laurena Walker Development Program funded YouthUSA Fellowships to past winners, Gen Z Joi Butler, Gen Y Elana Jenkins and Gen Z Intern Emanuella Ingrid Kacou to develop and certify Gen Z trustees for a World Bank Umbrella 2.0 Trust. Community Asset Managers Maselemeng Molupe and Kouakou Akissi Marguerite identified a total of 27 Generation Alpha candidates for economic inclusion. 7316 X 12660 THE AMERICAN MENTOR WIRE SERVICE (AMWS) is a communications asset of Youth Achievers USA Institute. AMWS operates as a news service via Internet. Production of eighteen (18) YouTube videos and seventeen 17 Blog posts augmented Facebook, Twitter, and Linked-In social/business networking. Spending for the AMWS 2024 program supported a 10-member virtual delegation to the United Nations, demonstrating cross-generational engagement with The January 30, 2024 Partnership Forum of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The LIVE forum was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, USA. The program operated an interactive site featuring LIVE interaction between Microsoft Teams and UN TV 10000 768 The J.D. and Laurena Walker Fund (JDLWF) serves as a development program, identifying SUFICIENT PROVISION for COMMON VISION. In 2024, the fund included a $10,000 at-risk investment at Chicago's Ariel Investments and $100,000 in FDIC Insured bank assets toward an endowment for sustaining #NoPoverty2030. A replicable $100 million endowment is envisioned through crowdfunding and grants, demonstrated by the assessed needs of 100 Generation Alpha beneficiaries. Each Gen Alpha has a projected $1 million Whole Village Trust, economically including 20 caring adults, each with a minimum net worth of $50,000 by June 9, 2030. JDLW 2023 program spending of $3042 supported cash and hardware grants. The program invested in development of virtual (Internet sites) and real property (GrandMentors' House), compounding value to inherited resources from the J.D. and Laurena Walker Family. In 1996, Laurena Puriefoy Walker invested faith in the YouthUSA community as its first GrandMentor. Youth Achievers USA Institute engages current and new directors in codifying this edification for elders in the YouthUSA Corporate Village. #PlayTheGame is under development as a process for inclusion in shared ownership of The New Stradford Hotel Upon Black Wall Street. Outcomes are yet to be determined. 0 0 TheEnterpriZe Social Enterprise Program - The program modeled a U.S. Small Business Administration Certified veteran-owned limited liability company (LLC). Equity Members assessed 100,000 LLC Member Units at 10/par. Valuation is based on accounts receivable from a $10 m Sole Source Federal contract. The LLC contracted with YouthUSA and small trust clients to develop shared-owner employment opportunities. Assessing the need for an Internet presence to support global social enterprise development, YouthUSA established www.FreeAfricanSociety.net and www.FAS2.net. 0 0 13428 Stephanie A Walker Stradford YouthUSA Chair and CEO; Chair, J.D.1 & Laurena Walker Fund Task Force 20 0 0 0 Eric Stradford YouthUSA CIO - Program Development Officer 40 0 0 0 Vacant Director 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Youth Achievers USA Institute c/o TheEnterpriZe 1300 Ridenhour Blvd NW Ste 100 Kennesaw GA 30152 6787521264 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 5005 375 0 219 308 5907 0 135 0 135 0 0 5005 375 0 354 308 6042 6042 2233 345 299 3922 5379 12178 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18220 0.33161 0.45883 X Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 10 Youth Achievers USA Fellowships