Ytbnj Org A NJ Nonprofit Corporation

The main purpose of YTB is to work with community leaders to establish youth-adult partnerships to fully engage youth in community development. We want to bring new opportunities to youth and recognize their contributions.

YTB puts youth-adult partnerships at the center of community development - youth build social connections, earn time credits, and receive resources for their community contributions.

Mission: YTB provides youth with service opportunities to “pay it forward”, earn rewards and build community connections.

Vision: Youth are engaged with community and their needs are addressed. YTB is a youth-adult partnership. Youth develop strengths, increase social capital, co-produce projects, serve as cross-age coaches.

YTB Community CALM is YTB's model. Care activities are service oriented. Apps activities involve the use of technology for good. Learn activities develop community literacy. Make activities are hands-on and inspire community engagement.

Young people are addressing concerns like social isolation, climate change, digital divide, substance use and other things they care about.

YTB draws on principles from TimeBanking, Co-Production, and Liberating Structures to involve everyone.

YTB has strong connections with community leaders in Mukono, Uganda; Kisumu, Kenya; Yaoundé, Cameroon; and Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida. We consult with national leaders in the TimeBanking movement. We learn from experts in human development through association with TCOM: Transformation Collaborative Outcomes Management. Our giving platform is with Every.org/YTBGlobal. Technology resources and insights are drawn from involvement with TechSoup Global and TechSoup Connect.

YTB Global - youth-adult-professional partnership - completed construction of a classroom for a rural school in Mukono, Uganda in July 2023. This school was destroyed by a spring storm in 2022. YTB invested in ISSB Technology in September 2022. The entire community has been involved in the spirit YTB-driven co-production to accomplish this unprecedented goal.

In October 2022, faced with the threat of an Ebola crisis, YTB Uganda began a small Community Crochet project to keep youth engaged and learning. That project expanded to include hundreds of learners at two rural schools. Their handiwork can be seen at https://tinyurl.com/YTBcrochet.

In March 2023, a community leader from Kisumu, Kenya traveled to Mukono for ISSB training. A community project in Kisumu Village is underway. This ISSB project is called BomaBora.

In June 2023, YTB Tampa will started with youth leaders connected to the local refugee community.
During July-August 2023, YTB Cameroon established an office presence in the capital city of Yaounde'.
During September 2023 teams in Kenya will learn about community inclusion currency to support members of rural communities to withstand the pain of increasing inflation and growing insecurity for basic life needs of food, clothing, shelter.