PASADENA, Md. (27 March 2006)—Rick Little, president and CEO of the ImagineNations™ Group, will participate in the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College’s 2006 Annual Conference, held in Orlando, Florida, 26-28 March.

To help businesses play an ever greater role in using their innovation, competencies and resources to help push the social needle on core issues that significantly affect business and society, Little will join Kimmo Lipponen of Nokia in facilitating a discussion on chronic youth unemployment and how youth along with technology, can be a solution rather than a problem in addressing poverty and economic development.

“With global youth unemployment at its highest level on record and still on the rise, youth entrepreneurship and employment needs to be a central strategy in worldwide development efforts and at the heart of a global campaign for growth and poverty reduction,” said Little. “Investing in young people’s ideas generates jobs and creates a ripple effect for others to improve their communities and their own lives.”

About the ImagineNationsT Group
 
The ImagineNations™ Group is a global alliance of social entrepreneurs, thought leaders, investors, financial institutions, global brands, media and organizations—all working together with and for young people to inspire positive change in society. ImagineNations and its partners aim to empower and inspire a new generation of successful young entrepreneurs in the developing world by providing them with financial resources, training and business development services they need to start micro-enterprises and small businesses, which will, in turn, serve as engines of growth and job creation in their communities and countries. In partnership with leaders from different sectors, ImagineNations is developing an actionable and comprehensive blueprint for youth investment that will significantly increase access, opportunities and levels of societal investment in the development, livelihoods, entrepreneurship and employment of young people.