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Aspiring Youth Academy AYA focuses on ending the cycle of poverty through empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs.

✨ Calling all Teachers & Nonprofit Leaders! ✨This evening is for YOU! 🫶At Aspiring Youth Academy, we know the incredible...
10/08/2026

✨ Calling all Teachers & Nonprofit Leaders! ✨

This evening is for YOU! 🫶

At Aspiring Youth Academy, we know the incredible impact educators and nonprofit leaders make in the lives of Arizona youth and throughout our communities. Now, we want to take a moment to celebrate the people behind that impact!

Join us for AYA’s Teacher & Nonprofit Leader Appreciation Reception, a beautiful evening of connection, appreciation, and community!

🥂 Wednesday, October 21 | 5:30–7:00 p.m.

📍 Phoenix 20-30 Clubhouse | Outdoor Patio
917 E. Sheridan St., Phoenix, AZ 85006

Enjoy appetizers, beverages, and the opportunity to connect with fellow educators, nonprofit leaders, and community partners while learning more about AYA and ways to get involved.

💛 All teachers and nonprofit leaders are welcome!

Know an incredible teacher or nonprofit leader who deserves to be celebrated? Tag them below and share this invitation!

✨ Register today under events at the link in bio: https://aspiringyouth.org/event/ayas-non-profit-leader-and-teacher-appreciation-reception/

We can’t wait to celebrate YOU!

CommunityImpact

We’re incredibly grateful to the Arizona Community Foundation Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County for believi...
10/07/2026

We’re incredibly grateful to the Arizona Community Foundation Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County for believing in Aspiring Youth Academy and investing in the young people we serve 🩵

Bridget and Ashley recently traveled to Prescott to receive this generous grant at the beautiful Hazeltine Theatre, alongside incredible organizations serving Yavapai County.

While there, we toured Friendly Pines Camp at Yavapai College and admired Prescott’s historic homes dressed up for Halloween! 🎃

Thank you, ACF of Yavapai County, for believing in AYA and Arizona youth, and for helping us create opportunities for young people to learn, lead, create, and grow. ✨

CreatingPossibilities

⏰ ONE HOUR LEFT! ⏰This is your final chance to bid in the AYA Online Auction!If you’ve been watching an item, now is the...
10/05/2026

⏰ ONE HOUR LEFT! ⏰

This is your final chance to bid in the AYA Online Auction!

If you’ve been watching an item, now is the time to make your move. Check your favorite packages, make sure you haven’t been outbid, and take one last look at the great deals still available.

🏌️ Golf
🏨 Hotel stays
💪 Fitness & fun
🎉 Party packages
🎭 Classes & experiences
💇 Beauty packages
…and more!

Every bid supports Aspiring Youth Academy and helps us provide entrepreneurship, leadership, and financial literacy opportunities for teens and foster teens.

🔥 Bidding closes at 8 PM — let’s finish strong!

🔗 https://www.biddingforgood.com/2026

📣 TODAY is the LAST DAY of the AYA Online Auction!‼️ There are still some amazing items available — golf, hotel stays, f...
10/04/2026

📣 TODAY is the LAST DAY of the AYA Online Auction!‼️

There are still some amazing items available — golf, hotel stays, fitness packages, parties, classes, family activities, beauty packages, and more!

Some items still have low bids or no bids, which means there are great deals waiting to be claimed.

Every bid helps Aspiring Youth Academy serve more than 400 teens and foster teens this year through entrepreneurship, leadership, and financial literacy programs.

Check it out now, place your bids, and keep checking back throughout the day!

https://lnkd.in/gK5FPTy8

Auction closes TONIGHT at 8 PM!

Want AYA’s first-ever community tee, designed by our teens? 👕💯This Wednesday, our AYA Interns launched AYA’s very first ...
10/02/2026

Want AYA’s first-ever community tee, designed by our teens? 👕💯

This Wednesday, our AYA Interns launched AYA’s very first fundraising T-shirt at our Community Breakfast, and we’re so excited to finally share it with you!

The tee was designed by AYA students in collaboration with the State Forty Eight State Forty Eight team and every shirt helps support the programs and opportunities that make AYA possible for Arizona teens.

Want one? Here’s how:
Make a donation to AYA through the link in our bio, then send us a DM or email [email protected] with your size and mailing address, and we’ll ship your tee to you!

We also hope you’ll consider AYA in your Arizona Tax Credit giving this year. Your support helps provide Arizona teens with entrepreneurship, financial literacy, leadership, mentorship, and experiences like Spring Innovation Camp 2027.

Thank you for supporting Arizona’s teen entrepreneurs and future leaders, and for helping us create more possibilities for them.

This shirt represents the voices and creativity of Aaron, Adi, Asher, Anna, Lina, Issac, and Will ~ teens from across Phoenix who have completed AYA Camp and continue to give back through service and leadership, share their voices, and represent and support Arizona teens 🩵

Our hearts are full. 🩵🏕️Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for our annual AYA Invest in Innovation Community ...
10/01/2026

Our hearts are full. 🩵🏕️

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for our annual AYA Invest in Innovation Community Breakfast! To our teens, families, mentors, partners, donors, educators, volunteers, and friends, you are s’more appreciated than you know!

A special thank you to all of the teens and families who spent the morning with us. We loved seeing former Innovation Camp attendees and familiar faces from across our programs, and welcoming new families into the AYA community. Our teens are the heart of everything we do.

AYA continues to grow, and with that growth comes more opportunities for Arizona teens. Through our flagship programs in entrepreneurship, financial literacy, mentorship, leadership, and hands-on experiences, we’re helping young people build skills, make meaningful connections, and discover what’s possible for their futures.

Thank you for showing up, believing in our mission, and investing in the next generation. 🩵

As you make your giving plans this year, please consider AYA in your Arizona Charitable Tax Credit donation. Your support keeps these opportunities free for teens and families.

Donate anytime at the link in our bio 🏕️✨

Breakfast Sponsors

* Cunningham Law Firm
* Arizona Financial Foundation

Major Supporters / Community Partners

* 20-30 Club of Phoenix
* Valley of the Sun Active 20-30 Club
* Executive Council Charities
* Women in Philanthropy
* ASU J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute

Corporations & Foundations

* SRP
* Globe Corporation
* Hear Me Roar Foundation
* Mariner
* Enterprise Bank & Trust
* Arizona Community Foundation of Yavapai County
* Bankers Trust
* Dorsey & Whitney LLP
* Headfarmer

A huge thank you to Gilbert Public Schools and Highland High School for hosting tonight’s high school college and career...
09/29/2026

A huge thank you to Gilbert Public Schools and Highland High School for hosting tonight’s high school college and career fair! What a turn out! It was wonderful to meet with so many students and families, we look forward to seeing you all this year! 💯🩵

A huge thank you to Mesquite H.S. MHS College & Career Center for having us out to connect with the business classes on ...
09/28/2026

A huge thank you to Mesquite H.S. MHS College & Career Center for having us out to connect with the business classes on this rainy Monday! It was awesome to see some familiar faces from Camp who are taking business and life to the next level 🙌 Early Bird applications for camp are now live, we can’t wait to see you all there & participating in programs like AYA Financial Litetacy Cohorts coming up this winter 💵🩵

Thank you, State Forty Eight State Forty Eight Foundation , for having us out on Saturday! 🤩The AYA x State Forty Eight ...
09/28/2026

Thank you, State Forty Eight State Forty Eight Foundation , for having us out on Saturday! 🤩

The AYA x State Forty Eight Collaboration Intern Team — Aaron, Adi, Asher, Anna, Lina, Issac, and Will — joined students from Central High School’s Marketing class for the final day of the Entrepreneur Speaker Series.

These young leaders have been a month into a hands-on internship learning marketing, design, and fundraising while creating AYA’s collaborative T-shirt supporting programs that are free for Arizona teens.

Saturday was the icing on the cake, getting to connect with businesses, hear from entrepreneurs, and take part in a panel we especially loved, “Service is Strategy.”

We love seeing them learn, create, and put their skills into action. ⭐️

Seven Arizona high school students. One creative collaboration. A whole lot of purpose.💫✨Meet Aaron, Aaradhya, Anna, Ash...
09/24/2026

Seven Arizona high school students. One creative collaboration. A whole lot of purpose.💫✨

Meet Aaron, Aaradhya, Anna, Asher, Isaac, Lina, and Will—the students behind AYA’s first fundraising T-shirt collaboration with State Forty Eight.

Through a 30+ hour, hands-on internship with AYA’s Future Innovators Mentorship Program, these students gained real-world experience in design, marketing, fundraising, and bringing a product to life. They didn’t just create a shirt. They helped create opportunities for other Arizona teens.

And yes, this shirt gives back.❤️

Your support helps fund Innovation Camp and keeps AYA’s entrepreneurship, financial literacy, mentoring, internships, and hands-on learning opportunities free for youth and families.

Give today. Wear the impact.

Make your Arizona Tax Credit contribution and receive the first AYA × State Forty Eight T-shirt—a $48 value—as a special thank-you, while supplies last.

Learn more and support the next generation of innovators in our website.

https://aspiringyouth.org/invest-in-innovation-community-breakfast/

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2030 E Speedway Blvd
Tucson, AZ
85719

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