30/01/2024
More about why we created Next Gen Photography!
Why photography? 📷
Next Gen Photography, our newest social enterprise with Hope for Community Development, was built on three key social objectives:
1) Providing meaningful employment to high school students 💼
Our youth leaders recognized the difficulty of securing meaningful work and wanted to provide their peers with a unique employment experience. Many had younger siblings or neighbours they envisioned as our Next Gen Photographers!
2) Networking with business and charity leaders 👔
Through photography, our youth leaders believed that professional photography services provide exciting introductions to new nonprofits outside of their neighbourhood doing important work!
3) Skill development at an early age 🛠
Photography, creative storytelling, and customer relationships are essential for many of today's jobs. Providing our community's youth with transferrable skills at an early age will make them competitive as they apply to universities, trades programs, and other skilled roles.
If you love what Next Gen Photography stands for, please share our work with someone in the Waterloo Region who may be looking to hire photographers:
www.nextgenphotos.org
When you support this project, you are employing youth in our community and all profits are invested into community programming. We are looking to book two jobs this February!