Youth and Student Innovation Collaboratory

1. +
Mentoring Interning
Tutoring Launching
Youth & Student
Innovations
An integrated and comprehensive approach to
generational economic opportunity, prosperity,
and community engagement

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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

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Stages of Youth and Student
‘Engagement’ for Knowledge and
Economic Prosperity
Mentoring: Tutoring: Interning: Launching:
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Linking Real- Identify and Connecting Beyond
World Life Connecting Students to Traditional
Experiences Student Needs Their First Entrepreneurial
and New with Cost- Career, Job, Programs, form
Knowledge Effective and Life-Skill Dormcubators,
through Efficient through Just-in-Time
Community & Expertise for Regional Innovations,
Civic-led Improved Corporate and Idea Factories
Institutions, Learning and Industry Sector and Small Scale
Organizations Scores Programs Investments
Note: initial inventory of programs, initiatives, events, resources
suggests most activities fall into these four categories and stages

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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

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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

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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

7. + 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.