Who we are
Captains Social Foundation is a youth-led non-profit organization, driven by a shared vision - a world where young people actively engage within their communities. We are on a mission is to reimagine volunteerism by engaging, empowering, and encouraging young people to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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We are cultivating an inclusive, sustainable, and innovative ecosystem for youth to transform their ideas into action, addressing social issues in their community through youth-led social initiatives that create an impact both locally and globally. We offer young individuals with capacity development training and personalized mentorship to help them understand their personal goals and provide them with the networks, collaborations, resources, tools, fundraising assistance and unique opportunities to accomplish meaningful contributions to the community.
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To engage youth, we established The Social Captains, a network of youth who can be the change and changemakers in the community. To empower youth, we founded the Institute of Young Changemakers, a platform to mentor youth to tranform their ideas into action. To encourage youth, we initiated The Volunteer Awards, an honorary national volunteering awards program to recognize the exceptional contributions of youth volunteers for their commitment to promoting volunteerism.
Training
We provide capacity development training to ideate social initiatives and empower the skills of youth
Funding Assistance
We provide funding and fundraising assistance to develop and sustain social initiatives through our networks and partner organisations.
Mentorship
We provide personalised one-to-one mentorship to incubate the ideas and to enhance their capacity of youth.
Networking
We provide opportunity for youth to get connected with like-minded volunteer, change-makers and organisations to promote volunteerism and support social initiatives.
Leadership
We provide platforms for youth to exhibit their leadership skills and encourage them to engage & lead social initiatives in the community.
Stories
We outreach stories to promote youth volunteerism and to gain exposure through featuring on our website and social media platforms.
Resources
We provide toolkits, worksheets, strategic materials to design social initiatives and to enable the potential of youth.
Collaboration
We believe in the value of collaboration and support youth and organisations in the ideation, design, execution, coordination and outreach of social initiatives.
Vision
To create a world where young people actively engage within their communities.
Mission
To reimagining volunteerism by engaging, empowering & encouraging young people to address UN Sustainable Development Goals.
We are a one-stop destination and platform for youth to:
Ideate
Design
Execute
Outreach
Reimagining Volunteerism
Reimagining volunteerism is a concept that aims to change the way we think about and approach volunteerism. It involves looking at new and innovative ways to create opportunities for people to volunteer, and also to explore new ways of addressing global issues through volunteering. This could include new forms of volunteerism such as virtual volunteering, new areas for volunteerism such as social entrepreneurship, and new partnerships between different sectors to increase the impact of volunteerism. Reimagining volunteerism also aims to make volunteering more inclusive, so that people from all backgrounds and walks of life can get involved, and leverage technology to enhance and expand the impact of volunteering. The ultimate goal of reimagining volunteerism is to make it more effective and efficient in addressing the global challenges and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The concept of Reimagining volunteerism is highlighted by the need to fully integrate volunteering into the development agenda to better address today’s most pressing challenges and to recognize the current state and future potential of volunteering. It also highlights the need to create new, innovative and next-generation models of volunteering, foster inclusivity, measure volunteering to contribute to a holistic understanding of engagement in SDG implementation, and ensure the safety, security, and well-being of volunteers.