Young Citizens of the World

Name

Young Citizens of the World

Legal name

Young Citizens of the World / Jeunes Citoyens du Monde

Website

https://jeunescitoyensdumonde.onfabrik.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Youth Education Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Broadcasting and Content Providers (516)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

Model United Nations (MUN) (EDAMAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Virtual World Language & Electives Providers (K–12) (EDAJADAK)

Keywords

• Youth education programs
• Global citizenship education
• Virtual interview series
• Student leadership programs
• Cross-cultural learning

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Youth Education Services: YCW provides educational programming, interview series, and global citizenship curriculum to schools. Revenue appears to come from partnerships, donations, and potentially government or foundation support for educational initiatives.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Young Citizens of the World (YCW) operates a youth-led educational movement that organizes virtual (Zoom) interview series connecting K-12 students from schools worldwide with prominent global leaders across business, cultural, political, and social fields. The organization produces multilingual (English/French) programming aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and distributes content via YouTube and school network partnerships, having conducted 100+ interviews across 5 seasons.

Product overview

Young Citizens of the World (YCW) is a youth education movement and interview program, not a technology product company. The organization offers interview series programs where students conduct Zoom interviews with notable global leaders across various themed seasons. YCW also produces a collaborative book written by children. There is no product platform architecture or modules—YCW is an educational/youth movement organization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 1.55 million young people reached through YCW programming
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Manie MusicalecoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2026Official partner for music interviews and events. YCW and Manie Musicale conduct joint interviews with musicians, including French-speaking artists like Gims, and collaborate on musical content featuring student participation.
• STAPLES Richmond BCminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSTAPLES (Richmond, BC) provides support to YCW as a local business supporter.
• Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global CitizenscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerYCW is featured by the Ban Ki-Moon Centre for Global Citizens, an organization co-founded by former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. COO Katrin Harvey participated in YCW's World Series event. The partnership supports YCW's mission aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals and global citizenship education.
• Marco Polo Institute (Autun, France)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational partner school in France that helps lead French-language interviews and coordinates with other European schools for YCW programming.
• Alcanta International College (Guangzhou, China)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational partner school in China that participates in YCW interviews and contributes questions from Asian student perspectives.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Discovery Education: Major commercial K-12 digital content provider serving more than half of US schools with curated video, STEM, and citizenship programming. Closest large-scale commercial analog to the 'video-based global citizenship content for schools' offering YCW is building, but operating with paid district licensing rather than free access.
• Global Citizen: Large international advocacy movement engaging citizens, governments, and corporations around the UN SDGs with high-profile ambassadors. Overlaps with YCW on global citizenship and SDG framing, but operates at much larger adult-focused scale and via mass campaigns rather than school chapters.
• PBS LearningMedia: Free digital media platform for educators from public broadcaster PBS offering tens of thousands of classroom-ready videos and interactives. Comparable as a 'free high-quality video content distributed to K-12 schools at scale' incumbent, albeit with vastly deeper funding and library size.

Others

• Right To Play: International non-profit that uses sport and play to educate and empower children facing adversity, operating school and community programs across the Global South. Adjacent comparator as a similarly structured international youth-empowerment NGO with school channel partnerships, though the educational modality is play/sport-based rather than interview/dialogue.

Direct peers

• TED-Ed: TED's education arm produces short, high-quality video lessons and interviews featuring world-class thinkers, distributed globally to schools and learners free of charge. Theoretically similar 'high-caliber interview content for schools' model, though TED-Ed is animated lessons whereas YCW uses live Zoom interviews.
• Facing History and Ourselves: Non-profit that provides K-12 schools with global citizenship, human rights, and SEL curricula including multimedia content and direct educator engagement. Highly comparable as a school-channeled citizenship/human rights content provider, though YCW focuses on live global-leader dialogue rather than narrative curricula.
• TakingITGlobal: Toronto-headquartered youth-led social enterprise running the world's largest online community of young leaders, with virtual programming around the UN SDGs and global citizenship. Direct overlap with YCW on youth + global citizenship + UN SDG framing.
• iCivics: Sandra Day O'Connor-founded non-profit providing free, high-quality civics education resources distributed directly to K-12 schools across the United States. Similar school-channeled civic/citizenship education distribution model and free-access educational content positioning.
• DoSomething: Large US youth civic engagement non-profit that drives teens to take action on social issues through campaigns and youth-led projects. Closely comparable on the youth-as-changemaker and 'youth-led movement' framing, though DoSomething is US-only and issue-campaign-driven.

Emerging players

• Ashoka: Global non-profit that identifies and supports leading social entrepreneurs, including a strong young-changemaker ('Ashoka Young Changemakers') program tied to schools. Comparable 'youth-as-change-agents' positioning, though Ashoka's center of gravity is identifying leaders rather than running school-anchored interview programming.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCmsUbHLoj0KvlrukESHNDrg
• Facebookfacebook.com/youngglobalcitizensworld

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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