Youth Engagement

The Alliance believes that in order to sustainably increase the amount and quality of philanthropy, especially among Indian Americans, active engagement of youth is essential.

After a year-long process of distilling best practices both within and outside our network, IPA developed detailed guidelines for effective engagement of youth and young professionals that are available to organizations involved in IPA. A summarized version of those guidelines was published as a two-part series by the Chronicle of Philanthropy in late 2022 and early 2023. Part one was titled “How Nonprofits Can Better Engage Young People” and part two was titled “Tips for Creating a Young Professionals Program.”

We welcome ideas about how to do this from any person or institution that shares this commitment and has potentially valuable insights.

As a concrete step in the direction of collective efforts to engage youth, we sponsored a first annual youth essay competition in 2020 focused on philanthropy and its implications for India. 

For more information on this exciting initiative, please click here.