Donate now to fight for online safety and digital equity for marginalized youth.

Dear Community Partners and Family and Friends,

World Wide Youth Networks has been working through our ParaDYM Academy program for 14 years, bringing media-based afterschool programming to over 3,00 students in and around Central Connecticut. Working with marginalized youth in Title I schools helped us develop partnerships around the world that advance digital equity, career and college readiness and critically conscious youth development to kids that are too often underappreciated and underrepresented As budget cuts and a tightening economy have put the squeeze on our program, we are reaching out to our ParaDYM family and community partners to help us continue serving our amazing group of superstars.

Instead of operating in silos, WWYN partners work collaboratively to connect youth in a peer driven purpose network that allows youth from different school and after school programs, like our own ParaDYM Academy program, to work together to learn 21st Century skills and advocate for a brighter, more inclusive world.

As our program has grown, so have the associated costs in running tech driven programs like ParaDYM Academy. We a re grant funded and funded from the generous donations of companies and people like you, that see the benefit of preparing our most vulnerable and underrepresented youth for the 21st Century workplace. every donation helps us serve more than 80 students each school year.

Every $50 donate allows for 1 student to have a 1 on 1 coaching with a college Recruitment specialist

Every $75 donation allows for 1 student to have 1 on 1 Job coaching sessions

Every $100 donation pays for 1 year of content development software per student

Every $500 donation pays for 1 student to receive internship training and placement

Please donate now.

WWYN, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that provides promising, academically talented, students with enrichment programs centered around critically conscious youth development and CTE (careers technology education). In higher education, a purpose network is an online community intentionally designed to support critical student learning outcomes through peer-to-peer, peer-to-staff and staff-to-peer communication.

Your generosity will go a long way toward ensuring our students' success. Your donations will provide each student with career development and social emotional learning skills, without having to pay a dime. Thank you for helping us out and for helping to keep our programs some of the best in the state!

Thank you in advance for your donation,

Duane P. Pierre, Executive Director, World Wide Youth Networks