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Youth & Student Innovations An integrated and comprehensive approach to generational economic opportunity, prosperity, and community engagement

Mentoring Interning

Launching Tutoring

+Overview   Thousands of national, statewide, and regional/community

programs in place

  Fragmented across demographic, population, community, scholastic, science-technology themes

  Billions of public and private sector dollars targeting Youth and Students – including philanthropic resources – but rarely seen in a holistic, linked pathway (approximately $17 billion per year)

  Little organization nor operating models in communities along a continuum of common purpose, performance, metrics, and outcomes

  Technology, social media, and better targeting of communications, outreach, and engagement can leap-frog current challenges

  Focusing on economic opportunity, prosperity, and innovation cuts across geography, populations, and business models

+Stages of Youth and Student ‘Engagement’ for Knowledge and Economic Prosperity

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e 1 Mentoring:

Linking Real-World Life

Experiences and New

Knowledge through

Community & Civic-led

Institutions, Organizations

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e 2 Tutoring: Identify and Connecting

Student Needs with Cost-

Effective and Efficient

Expertise for Improved

Learning and Scores

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e 3 Interning:

Connecting Students to Their First

Career, Job, Life-Skill through

Regional Corporate and

Industry Sector Programs

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e 4 Launching:

Beyond Traditional

Entrepreneurial Programs, form Dormcubators,

Just-in-Time Innovations,

Idea Factories and Small Scale

Investments

Note: initial inventory of programs, initiatives, events, resources suggests most activities fall into these four categories and stages

+Case for Integration   By creating a continuum of services, information, resources,

and engagement, youth and students can access the critical knowledge needed to complete course work as well as seek immediate employment and business development

  As an individual advances along the continuum, the service model makes the progression easier and affordable

  Partnerships seek one-stop, packaged, and measurable results-oriented solutions; such partnerships include corporations, foundations, public sector officials, and economic communities/regions

  Technological platforms exist and are emerging that strengthen the integration models for a continuum of services and business activities

  Monetizing the continuum model is evident and tested already

+Goals: Immediate and Long-Term   Create technology platforms that minimize barriers for

integration while advancing revenue generation

  Create a network of communities/regions, partnerships, and campuses that can establish ‘brand/market-share’ of no less than 30% within one year

  Create a delivery system that attracts the best-in-class content, leadership, resource partners, and obviously youth and students

  Create additional methods for revenue generation including reinvestment and charitable giving for purchase of ‘time’ packages, content roll-ups, and content sharing

  Create long-term value for repeat customer loyalty through unique campaigns, incentives, and national/regional contests

+Unique ‘Delivery’ towards Goals   Leverage Generation Internet Networks (GIN)/Tutor Matching –

and similar existing and evolving technology platforms on Facebook, other Social Media, Phones, Tools

  Leverage GINS/Collegia/Other Networks across campuses, communities, and corporate/philanthropic institutions

  Leverage Popular Media and Related Social Media interests in Youth and Student Progress/Performance/Prosperity – a grassroots scenario in urban AND rural America

  Leverage Expertise through Thought-Leadership Forums, Briefings, and Reports – leading to recognition AND new content models

  Leverage Funding Sources as Drivers of Idea/Pilot-Development – federal, state, and regional grants and contracts in need of tested solutions

+ Vehicle: “Youth and Student Collaboratory”

  National “platform” that brings together Mentoring, Interning, Tutoring, and Launching as a one-stop operating model

  Serves as a potential 501c3 for addressing side-by-side relationship building, thought-leadership, and engagement support for acquisition of other related services, products, and programs – as well as sponsors for youth and students that cannot afford such on-going expenditures

  Hosts national and regional forums and roundtables on the future of youth and student learners, innovators, technology-users, economic ‘engines’ in communities, institutions – creates a National Scorecard

  Identifies trends, forecasts, and ultimately demand for new ideas, products, services, and leverage of the Youth and Student enterprise capabilities and capacities; provides research, survey, and other forms of data, information, insight to issues and opportunities in the youth and student arena.