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Founded | 2000 |
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Founder | Sinan Yaman |
Focus | Socially responsible leadership |
Location | |
Area served | Turkey & United States |
Key people | Sinan Yaman (
Chairman and Founder) Asude Altıntaş (Co- President) Sadık Ünlü (Co- President) |
Website | www.yga.org.tr |
Young Guru Academy (YGA) is an international non-profit established in 2000 in Turkey. Its volunteers develop international projects to help solve the problems their communities face. [1]
Over 50 thousand university and high school students apply to YGA every year. After a 5-step process, 50 chosen students are admitted to the program. Scientists, innovators, and leaders such as Prof. Aziz Sancar, Ali Koç, Faruk Eczacıbaşı, Prof. Mehmet Toner, Prof. Kristi Raube, and Prof. Doğan Cüceloğu train these admitted volunteers. Over 5000 hours of volunteer work and education allows the knowledge to be implemented in their lives. YGA's global partners such as Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Brown, Technical University of Munich, Polytechnic of Turin, London Business School and UC Berkeley allows students from those institutions to join YGA volunteers in the field.[ citation needed]
70% of financial resources of YGA are donated by over 50 international corporations, %20 is crowdfunded, and %10 is raised by startups by YGA graduates. In 2020, this number is planned to reach 50%.
Such startups and innovations include:
YGA has offices in London, UK and Turin, Italy.