Established in Indonesia in 1999, YCAB Foundation is the founding and flagship organization in YCAB Social Enterprise group based on a mutually reinforcing and financially sustainable social change model, which has one clear mission: to improve welfare through education and innovative financing. Since its establishment, YCAB Foundation has impacted more than five million underprivileged youth and over 200,000 women-owned MSMEs.
YCAB Foundation continues to forge new, innovative holistic development programs to deliver our mission. Along with an extensive selection of vocational training, our programs for youth have improved and transformed to STEM based skills namely, Coding, Work Readiness, Entrepreneurship and 21st century soft skills to achieve self-reliant youths. Additionally, YCAB Foundation also focuses on women's economic empowerment by providing them with financial literacy, digital marketing and entrepreneurship training. Several of our programs are as follows:
MasterCard Girls4Tech. Promote greater female participation in STEM-related careers through raising the awareness of 70,000 girls to STEM. This initiative effectively answers the need for capable and proficient digital talents in present and future industry needs in Indonesia.
Lautan Luas Data Science for Youth. Addresses the lack of ready-to-work digital talents by providing Data Science training to 500 high school students.
SCF Covid-19 Recovery Programme. Fighting for inclusiveness, this program targets 10,000 young entrepreneurs, including people with sensory disabilities, specifically those with impaired vision and hearing. Training is delivered with a universal digital learning approach that is inclusive. Specifically designed to cater to entrepreneurs with low digital literacy, this digital tool leverages the WhatsApp platform for habitual and ease of use reasons.
Meta Karya Perempuan - The program aims to increase business resilience of 2,900 women-owned MSMEs by providing digital marketing and financial literacy training.
Meta Asah Digital - Training 6,700 students and 2,300 teachers on digital literacy and digital citizenship.
Mastercard Power Up the MSMEs. Empowered 200 MSMEs in tourism-concentrated regions and equipped them with skills to keep up with the growing foreign demand such as, English language, digital marketing, and product branding.
HERO4EDU crowdfunding campaign. Successfully raising over US$400,000, the program will empower 2,000 teachers across 10 remote regions as teachers in these areas are poorly remunerated (often unpaid) and lack the skill to manage dropouts. Here, teachers will receive financial support and training in critical thinking to improve teaching capacity.
In 2007, YCAB International Inc. was established in Atlanta, Georgia, structured as a non-profit 501(c)(3) with a headquarters in New York City. Our international pilot projects had been realized in five other countries: Afghanistan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Uganda.
As part of YCAB Foundation’s growth and sustainability strategy, YCAB Asia was established in 2020 with a goal to raise $50 million in an endowment fund. This endowment fund will be used to provide grants to NGO’s aligned with YCAB’s vision and mission to create more impact through collaborative efforts.
Our stakeholders include governments, MNC, affiliation with various associations, schools and universities and pro-bono advisory partners from firms such as Bain & Co.
