The Youth Company

My contribution

• Developed government, corporate and institutional relationships supporting youth programmes, including Run The World Festival.
• Led staff and volunteers across partnerships, finance, operations and communications.
• Connected programme ideas with sponsor propositions and the teams needed to deliver them.

Programmes and partnerships

Run The World · Talk Dirty · Hasanat · Youth Change Everything

• Run The World: sport, culture and youth participation. Gulf Times reported 27,000 visitors and 700 volunteers at the 2012 edition.
• Youth Change Everything: leadership conferences with partners including QFIB and INJAZ Qatar.
• Talk Dirty: an environment and sustainability forum developed with institutional and community partners.
• Hasanat: Ramadan volunteering; 2015 reporting recorded 63 activities and more than 250 volunteers.
• International exchange: an internship partnership with Dutch agency Buitenlandsestage.nl.

Festival coverage ↗ · Conference partner record ↗ · Sustainability interview ↗ · Volunteering coverage ↗ · Internship partnership ↗

Arab Hip Hop Festival · 2014

As founder and chairman, I represented The Youth Company at the festival’s launch. The programme brought music, creative workshops and conversations about hip hop culture together in Doha.

Read The Peninsula’s launch coverage ↗

Explore The Youth Company’s archive ↗

More from the project archive

Inspired by Qatar — the 2019 youth conference at Msheireb Museums.

FACE — Arab Canadian community dialogue and empowerment.

Grab-a-Coffee — mentoring programme development with Qatar Foundation alumni.

Why it matters

This experience gave me direct responsibility for building an organisation and maintaining the relationships behind its work.