This document proposes an integrated approach to youth and student engagement called the Youth and Student Collaboratory. It would bring together the fragmented existing mentoring, tutoring, interning, and entrepreneurship programs into a single continuum. The goal is to help youth and students access the knowledge and experiences needed for academic and career success through affordable and measurable partnerships between organizations. A national technology platform would minimize barriers and generate revenue to support the model on a long-term basis.

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

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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 targetingYouth 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 ofYouth and Student
‘Engagement’ for Knowledge and
Economic Prosperity
Stage1
Mentoring:
Linking Real-
World Life
Experiences
and New
Knowledge
through
Community &
Civic-led
Institutions,
Organizations
Stage2
Tutoring:
Identify and
Connecting
Student Needs
with Cost-
Effective and
Efficient
Expertise for
Improved
Learning and
Scores
Stage3
Interning:
Connecting
Students to
Their First
Career, Job,
Life-Skill
through
Regional
Corporate and
Industry Sector
Programs
Stage4
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

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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.