Akazi Kanoze Access: Championing network building in Rwanda
Akazi Kanoze Access (AKA) helps fight unemployment of young people from the most vulnerable families in Rwanda. inHive has established a partnership with AKA to champion the prospect of alumni network building at 45 schools in Kigali, Rwanda. Our work included scoping feasibility and researching the potential of networks to tackle the underlying challenge of youth unemployment. The vast majority of participating schools welcomed the prospect of alumni engagement and we are continuing to pursue fundraising prospects for a full scale pilot programme. Valence Twagizihirwe, Executive Director of AKA, said: “inHive has a strong and hardworking team. You can be …
SHADE’S STORY: “MY ADVICE?DON’T BE LIKE ME!”
SHADÉ IS A YOUNG SOUTH AFRICAN WHO OVERCOME HIGH INEQUALITY AND YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN HER AREA TO PURSUE FURTHER EDUCATION AND EARN A JOB. BUT IT WASN’T EASY AND NOW SHE IS SHARING HER STORY TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE AT HER FORMER SCHOOL TO CARVE OUT THEIR OWN PATH FORWARD. By Ján Michalko Sitting around a table decked with fried chicken and bread, Shadé is reflecting on her life with a small group of students from her former school. One year on from graduating, she’s currently studying for a certificate in Computer Science at a local college. This will …
inHive: Every School a Community (2013)
This is the research that launched inHive as an organisation, back when it was known as Future First Global. It’s an in-depth feasibility study across nine countries that demonstrates the universal value of alumni networks in schools and shares examples of ad hoc best practice around the world. Foreword Future First has been building alumni communities in state schools in the UK for five years now. Its work has led to a national rise in state school alumni engagement and a culture shift that is far greater than the organisation itself; the country has gone from less than 1% of …
inHive: From Cohorts To Communities (2015)
This is a best practice guide that helped establish inHive as a thought leader in alumni development, back when it was known as Future First Global. The guide is based on best practice from the UK as well as interviews with alumni practitioners from mature and thriving alumni networks in over 30 countries. Introduction Issues of impact, sustainability and community development have led to a marked increase in programmes looking to develop their alumni activities. This ‘how to’ guide is designed to help organisations take the next step, or even the first step, in building their own alumni programmes. Amongst …
Schools are not just a tool for economic growth – they should help young people thrive
Future First Global Project Lead, Ján Michalko, looks at the importance of so-called ‘soft skills’ for young people as they enter the jobs market and how schools should do more to foster them. Country leaders want their people to be efficient and effective workers. They need people to be trained to drive economic growth and excel in the fourth industrial revolution that we are in. And so as a result, our education assessments zoom in on young people’s technical skills and we rank schools according to this specific economic worldview. But what often falls to the side-lines are our connections; …
South African Youth Organisations Establish Community of Practice
First Global has helped establish a community of practice on alumni engagement in South Africa. Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation hosted a workshop for organisations that provide scholarships for young South Africans and run programmes supporting their education, entrepreneurship and employment. Participating organisations recognised that despite the support of their programming, young people, especially those who are marginalized by their economic status and race, still face immense challenges after they graduate. So the question of how to continue support for programme alumni in a sustainable and impactful way became one of the key issues discussed at the meeting. Future First Global facilitators, …
UKAID Award for social mobility pilot in Pakistan
Future First Global and CARE Foundation have been awarded a grant from the Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF) to pilot an innovative approach to improving social mobility through Alumni Networks. The fund by UKAID supports charities to achieve sustained poverty reduction and the partnership between Future First Global and CARE was awarded £50,000. Future First Global are experts in building strong youth-centred networks and the CARE Foundation run a network of over 800 schools in Pakistan. Together they will pilot alumni communities at 100 schools in the country, aiming to improve social mobility by increasing young people’s access to strong …
Alumni Toolkit: The Educational Value of Alumni for Public High Schools (2019)
Founding Global Network partner, Future First USA is now known as The Alumni Toolkit by Big Picture Education. This report looks into the effectiveness of alumni on students in public high schools in the USA. Extract During the 2018-19 academic year, UC San Diego’s Center for Research in Educational Equity, Assessment Excellence formative, (CREATE) multi-site and Teaching conducted a study of efforts to increase alumni engagement in San Diego County high schools. This report covers findings from 15 high schools (public and charter) that attempted to use their own high school alumni to provide career and college advising to their …
Nearly 100 schools in Uganda to establish Alumni Networks in partnership with PEDN
Future First Global has launched a partnership with The Private Education Development Network (PEDN) that will see Alumni Networks built at nearly 100 schools across Uganda. PEDN is a non-profit organisation working to empower in and out of school youth with a range of market-led and life skills, such as financial literacy and entrepreneurship. They have a presence in 17 districts in Uganda and work with a network of 300 primary and secondary schools. The new partnership with Future First Global will see Alumni Networks initially established at 92 schools across all 17 districts. With PEDN potentially rolling the project …
Five things we learnt in 2018…and a sneak preview of 2019
By Abi Nokes, CEO of Future First Global It’s a new year and over the holiday period the team and I enjoyed taking the opportunity to reflect on a transformative 2018. In this blog we’ll share with you our five big learnings and what we’re looking forward to in the coming year. In 2018 we worked with eight brilliant partners in nine countries across Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. We supported them to build strong networks and alumni communities that will benefit an estimated 120,000 young people over the next two years. By working across so many different contexts, we …
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