4. The International Youth Foundation desired to prepare young people to be “healthy, productive, and engaged citizens.

5. The International Youth Foundation (IFY) has partnered with 54 private donors in order to raise funds to commit to youth work.

6. Grants from IYF have been distributed to more than 300 organizations in about 80 different countries in the hopes to strengthen organizations aimed to work with youth.

7. The IYF has strived to view and help the world view youth in a different way. As current President William Reese put it, IYF wants to see youth as creative problem solvers rather than seeing them as problems to be solved.

11. IYF strives to improve academic performance among youth that its organizations encounters.

12. IYF’s work programs strive to improve the employability of youth as well as prepare them to have the education to attain quality jobs.

13. There is currently 175 partner organizations within the global network of the IYF.

14. This website offers magazine articles and information that is based on the ideals of positive youth development.

15. Learning resources are available categorized by Citizenship, Learning, and Work as well as showing what type of report or material is available and shows which country the information is specific to.

16. This website would be of great use to youth development practitioners especially those in the YD program. Concepts that we have already learned and are going to learn are intertwined throughout this entire site. This website is the exactly what we have already been talking about in this course. It takes the concepts we currently know for providing positive youth development and applies those concepts on a global level. Through this website I was able to see programs with a basis of youth-adult partnerships, youth civic work, youth and their families, health, education, work, and parenthood.

17. I recommend this website for any of the different countries that will be researched throughout this course.