Social Impact Youth Incubator

GOODdler Foundation

<P><SPAN>BECOME A LEADER FOR SOCIAL CHANGE</SPAN></P>
<H3 CLASS="text-align-center">THE GOODDLER SOCIAL IMPACT YOUTH INCUBATOR inspires a new generation of youth to invest their entrepreneurial brain-power into solving the world's acute humanitarian problems</H3>
<P><A HREF="http://www.gooddler.org/youth-incubator/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.gooddler.org/youth-incubator/</A></P>
<H2>MODULE 1. INSPIRE TO LEAD:</H2>
<P>Identify strengths and know how to use them. Strength-based Leadership Development. </P>
<H2>MODULE 2. GENERATE IDEAS:</H2>
<P>Ideas Hackathon - explore the issues in local communities and find solutions. </P>
<P>During this Hackathon Social Impact business model canvas will be introduced and customers segments will be identified. This is also the time when individual strengths are identified and teams are formed. The weeks following the Hackathon, our youth will focus on identifying the needs of local communities, researching solutions that are currently in place, talking to all stakeholders, etc. The goal is to come up with innovative ideas for further testing.</P>
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<H2>MODULE 3. DESIGN SOLUTIONS:</H2>
<P>This module is all about Human-centered design process and will include a deep market research, designing solutions, testing assumptions, iterating as needed, all done while being guided by the team of the experts. Weekly meetings will ensure the teams stick to their timelines, all gaps are addressed (technology, financial resources, etc), feedback is collected, iteration is done if needed.</P>
<P>Our youth will get an opportunity to mingle with prominent Bay Area entrepreneurs, VCs, corporate and civic leaders in formal and informal settings to further refine the sustainable business model of their solutions.</P>
<H2>MODULE 4. GO TO MARKET:</H2>
<P>Provide a blueprint for delivering a product or service to the end customer.  Actually getting a product to market growing the userbase and getting traction. Learning from actual product usage and adapting pricing for profitability (or other key objectives).</P>
<P>Youth will get a chance to roll the sleeves and work in their own communities, testing their solutions with civic, nonprofit and corporate partners.</P>
<H2>MODULE 5. PITCH IN FRONT OF INVESTORS:</H2>
<P>Identify your investors, analyze their investment style. Prepare presentation. Pitch to investors.</P>
<H2>EVENTS:</H2>
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.svod.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Silicon Valley Open Doors Conference</A> - start the program at the Silicon Valley Open Doors technology investment conference in May. Mingle with startup founders, business people and investors to learn about entrepreneurship and to create life-changing connections.</LI>
<LI>Demo Days. presentations of proposed solutions to the audience of philanthropists, social impact investors, and global civic and corporate leaders</LI>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.gooddler.org/social-impact-youth-summit-1/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gooddler Social Impact Youth Summit</A>, co-hosted with the United Nations. <SPAN>The annual<STRONG> </STRONG>Gooddler Social Impact Youth Summit is a vibrant forum for university and high-school student leaders advancing global development to learn, challenge, grow, and connect with a global community of the changemakers.</SPAN> </LI>
<LI>ECOSOC Youth Forum (United Nations, New York HQ).<BR>A selected group will be invited to attend UN HQ in New York to participate at the ECOSOC Youth Forum.</LI>
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