NORDIK announces social enterprise project geared towards youth – Sault Star
June 17, 2015
The NORDIK Institute at Algoma University is starting a pilot project that will give urban aboriginal youth the skills they need to become social entrepreneurs while reconnecting them with traditional aboriginal cultural and spiritual teachings.
The project, Urban Indigenous Youth for Change, is being funded by $100,000 grant from the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres, the institute announced Tuesday.
The project will feature programming that offers youth a blend of mainstream business education and traditional knowledge.
Jordan Tobobondung, partnership development coordinator at NORDIK Institute, said the hope is that the project gives urban aboriginal youth the right blend of skills they need in order to tackle concrete social issues they see in the community.
