Geneva, 30 January 2025. The programme that has trained nearly 900 young leaders since 2014 launches a call for its 6th Cohort of YMCA Change Agents today.
After the 5th cohort of 100 Change Agents graduated in October 2024, the 6th Cohort will be selected by April 2025 (the closing date for applications is 23 March) and its work will commence immediately.
The 18-month programme features modules on human-centred design (innovation), building partnerships, building movements and influencing change.
“We are thrilled to launch another cycle of this transformative programme”, says World YMCA Secretary General Carlos Sanvee. “We take exceptional young people and give them the training to be leaders and change makers in their own communities and beyond. And we keep in close touch with our alumni who are friends of YMCA, and friends of YMCA Vision 2030 and its quest for a just, sustainable, equitable and inclusive world. No less than 6 of them sit on the World YMCA Executive Committee.”
Read the Change Agent role description and see the application form here, and see an overview of the programme here. Read about being a Change Agents coach here and apply to be a coach here.
For any further information, please contact the Change Agents Programme Manager Maricris Saldarriaga at maricris@ymca.int.