Currently serving: 2,031 beneficiaries
Served to Date: 10,000+
*As of 2022
<aside> <img src="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" alt="/icons/sharing_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Summary of Team4Tech Contributions and Collaborations (2022):
“Because of this Team4Tech/Adobe project, BUILD will be able to launch an online marketplace for the first time in our 20+ year history as a youth entrepreneurship organization. Our students will now be able to use their business skills in the virtual realm and accelerate their learning. Customers, partners, and funders will now be able to interact with our student's businesses 24/7. This is something we dreamed of for so long that is now a reality for BUILD’s students. Thank you!” ~Steve Mea
<aside> 📌 BUILD partners with underperforming public high schools with graduation rates far below the national average. BUILD targets students who many have given up on and, in some cases, have given up on themselves. The students we serve face complex barriers on their paths to college and future success. BUILD is an entrepreneurship program that teaches them how to build their own business while becoming the CEO of their own lives. College and career success for these students is the goal. BUILD continues to expand its Youth Entrepreneurs program across the nation - supporting their youth to launch their businesses in a digital marketplace.
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BUILD continues to expand its digital offerings to youth across the nation. Team4Tech will be a valued partner in this work, supporting such initiatives as their digital marketplace, marketing reach, and badging. This is critical to the work that they are doing to pivot into the digital world. BUILD will look for Team4Tech's support in learning how to expand and support youth nationwide with digital resources, virtual mentorship, and an online curriculum/network of support.
<aside> <img src="/icons/library_gray.svg" alt="/icons/library_gray.svg" width="40px" /> The grant supported BUILD’s two main partnership goals. BUILD invested in their alumni/mentor platform by purchasing the platform software and creating alumni focus groups. BUILD is supporting their creation of an online “BUILD Store” through purchasing an LMS and BigCommerce subscription and turning Team4Tech’s beta platform into a full-scale, working one.
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