We're hard at work on NextUp 2.0. Here's a taste of what we did and what we learned over the last three years as NextUp 1.0. Learn more
About NextUp
We recognise that success in finding and keeping work requires resilience, self-belief, commitment and staying the course.
We invest in young people to build their emotional stability and confidence. We recognise that supporting them individually involves working with their schools, families and communities too. It is only in this way that they will successfully transform their lives and find dignity, stability and happiness.
The NextUp programme walks the journey with young people, giving them the support of a trusted adult, the guidance to understand their dreams, and turn them into reality and the technical know-how to build their skills and competencies. The spirit and values of Ubuntu underpin what we do: ‘I am, because you are’. Our goal is to help improve the lives of both our young participants and their communities.
Our Approach
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Bedding down roots in the community
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Building trust in communities by immersing ourselves in the Nextees’ lived realities
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Bridging the skills gap for the transition from School to Work
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Participating in projects to learn skills for improved marketability
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Close ties with the community ensure all-round support
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Find ‘diamonds in the rough’ who with the right opportunities, will prosper
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Meeting market demand to ensure a pathway for our Alumni
About Our Founders
The NextUp programme is a product of the vision and commitment of our founders, David and Tracey Frankel. They conceived NextUp because they wanted the opportunity to pay forward and convert their passion and concern for South Africa’s youth and future into meaningful action.
“We want to offer hope and dignity to people who feel there is none and have fallen off the radar of opportunity, and to partner with young people who have limited options and who lack direction, but who show the potential to get onto a pathway to work. We will dig deep to inspire confidence and instill trust so they believe there is a way to go from hopeless to hopeful.”- David and Tracey Frankel
This call to action is an open invitation to all potential partners to join NextUp on this path to do better, create together and to keep going. We want our youth to know that there is a helping hand at every milestone they reach. This is a project led by heart, optimism, gratitude and a true commitment to making a tangible and measurable difference, now and into the future.
Our Principles
Staying
the
Course
Being driven by demands of the economy
A commitment to learning and earning
Innovative approaches
and flexibility
Always
paying it
forward
Our Team
On the international side, we work closely with our founders David and Tracey Frankel to bring NextUp to life:
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