The Youthful Impact Program
A Community-Driven Entrepreneurship Program
Our coach-led online live sessions build foundational skills for youth through small group meetings that provide business fundamentals with real-life demonstrations from leaders in the community. Participants learn to identify what they care about and the areas that matter to them. That alone is a step towards personal joy. When they identify problems in these areas and propose solutions using real business concepts, they are empowered and prepared for the future of work while living a self-directed life.
Passion
In Oprah Winfrey’s words, “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” Youth are empowered to discover how to produce results in the areas they care about.
Read MoreBeing a Leader
Our approach develops foundational skills for life. They solve problems and create solutions with input from their coach, peers, and community professionals. This builds team players and life leaders.
Read MoreSkills Ahead
Each week builds employability skills and confidence in ways that youth value. Questions challenge them to reflect and communicate as if they are in interviews for school, jobs, or in a work meeting
Read MoreTrack Results
With our innovative data-driven learning platform, youth progress and completion is tracked for six to 12 months after completion. Youthful Impact means advancing in school or being employed.
Read MoreSkill-building Sessions for phase 1 include:
Session 1: Destination
Design your impact. In this session, you will join conversations with a coach, peers, and industry leaders to discover the areas that you care about, that are of interest to you..
Session 2: Small Start
It's fascinating for youth to see that their ideas can have an impact even if it's a small start. This sows a seed for inquiry and curiosity continues beyond the program. When they finish this session, they have a vision for an area of impact to address in their unique way.
Session 3: Steps to a Vision
Being a visionary with no action leaves youth frustrated and bored. In this session, youth discover the tools, people, and community to help articulate the steps towards their vision.
Session 4: Real Problems Real People
Real problems are painful and frustrating for people. Youth get to talk to people to understand the problems and needs the areas they care about. They become good listeners, good researchers, and decision-makers as they use customer data to inform their vision and plans
Session 5: Real Problems Existing Approaches
Knowing that others have seen the problem and addressed it in some way is validating. Here, activities lead youth through an investigative process to understand current solutions the problems they see. They learn to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
Session 6: Sharing the Vision and Getting Support
They get to choose the value they want to add in this area...and from an informed placed they articulate their propositions and abilities to address the problem. They learn how to speak and enroll others into their vision.
One Program with Endless Possibilities for Youth
With the Youthful Impact Program, you will have access to a well-designed online learning platform
We all learn in different ways. At times, need a variety of approaches to learn, discover, and apply knowledge and skills in ways that build foundational skills. This is not just a rigorous program designed by ivy league business educators. It is a system for mobilizing the community around youth and building them up. It's automated, data-driven, and filled with people who care. Our coaches are experts in business and leadership training grounded in real applications. Each cohort gets to have a unique experience that relates to their world.