SOCAL SOCIAL ENTREPRENUERS
Socal Social Entrepreneurs is incorporated in the State of California as a public benefit corporation with application as a charity under IRC 501 c(3) in process.
We build tomorrow’s empathetic leaders with marketable skills to solve social challenges today through technology, community, and private/public partnerships.
There is an assertion today that AI will replace millions of jobs. However, AI will never replace people trained with skills that define new opportunities, enhance existing markets, and expand strategic business opportunities with a win-win attitude.
That is the differentiated skill set we develop and offer and do so for social impact. The skills we develop for tomorrow’s entrepreneurs benefit non-profit as well for-profit enterprises.
THE PERFECT STORM
Many youth in high school and college do not know what career path to follow. They really should have a 5-year vision.
Our education system drive depth of knowledge in particular subject areas. A significant majority of this depth will go unused by students over the course of their lifetime. It’s known that a preponderance of youth come away from our education system without deployable marketable skill sets, they have deep siloed book knowledge.
So the current state is:
Youth with a lack of career vision and passion that are overtaught and overstressed.
Many people on the precipice with lack of education and tools, mental and physical health issues, without hope.
A national economic policy that wants to have assembly/manufacturing skills and supply chain rehomed to the USA.
This is not a recipe for success.
THE PERFECT STORM
Many youth in high school and college do not know what career path to follow. Our education system drives the depth of knowledge in particular subject areas. A significant majority of this depth will go unused by students over the course of their lifetime. It’s known that a preponderance of youth come away from our education system without deployable, marketable skill sets; they have deep, siloed book knowledge.
So the current state is: Youth with a lack of career vision and passion are overtaught and overstressed; Many people are on the precipice with a lack of education and tools, mental and physical health issues, and no hope; A national economic policy that wants to have assembly and manufacturing skills and the supply chain rehomed to the USA.
This is not a recipe for success.
ENTREPRENEURS IN RESIDENCE
We want to right-size that model. We build marketable skills in a team basedwith real life social impact projects we execute on. We build a portfolio of skills, across multiple entrepreneurs in residence, in a collaborative team environment and make use of their natural passions and talents.
WIN-WIN
Every organization needs leaders that can drive initiatives. In our model, youth don’t need deep technology expertise to make a difference. Youth need skills in planning and running cross organizational initiatives, new product introductions, and enhancements with approaches that challenge conventional wisdom across people, process, and product. We focus on social impact in order to build empathetic leaders no matter what path they take. They adopt soft and hard skills are transferable to industry.
Our entrepreneurs learn how to look at social problems, generate hypotheses, and propose approaches and build solutions. They learn how to own the results.
ENTREPRENEURS IN RESIDENCE INTERNS
We want to right-size that model. We build marketable skills in a team basedwith real life social impact projects we execute on. We build a portfolio of skills, across multiple entrepreneurs in residence, in a collaborative team environment and make use of their natural passions and talents.
Every organization needs leaders that can drive initiatives. In our model, youth don’t need deep technology expertise to make a difference. Youth need skills in planning and running cross organizational initiatives, new product introductions, and enhancements with approaches that challenge conventional wisdom across people, process, and product. We focus on social impact in order to build empathetic leaders no matter what path they take. They adopt soft and hard skills are transferable to industry.
Our entrepreneurs learn how to look at social problems, generate hypotheses, and propose approaches and build solutions. They learn how to own the results.
About Us
Our Vision
Our long-range vision is to connect an ecosystem of industries, partners, agencies, and community to provide support to the homeless, near homeless, and disadvantaged with incomes that don’t support a living wage to afford housing. We drive support beyond the head-to-a bed. We do this through the development of youth into the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs to promote, socialize, incubate new product process and methods. We envision a future where youth have demonstratable skills before entering the marketplace and people get the resources and incomes they need to be self-sustaining and contribute back to the same vision.
In doing so, we will develop a roadmap with our Entrepreneurs in Residence that will iterate over a series of product, process, public, and partner capabilities. Each its own Minimal Viable Product (MVP) that support the hypothesis at each stage and the long-range vision incrementally. Product in this sense is beyond something you can physically touch, but can extend to processes, policies, and procedures of the entire ecosystem.
PRODUCT BASED SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
We teach youth entrepreneurs a breath of different marketable skills. These include:
- production of and reading of 3 core financial statements,
- grant funding,
- relationship and partnership development,
- how to solve problems and validate of problem-solution-hypothesis,
- conduct user surveys and interviews,
- develop empathy maps, user journey maps, feature roadmaps,
- UX and UI research,
- agile methodologies,
- introduction to low code, rapid impact toolsets
IMPACTFUL SOCIAL SOLUTIONS
We reinforce learning with actual products that are transformative solutions to deep social issues. Our entrepreneurs in residence are responsible for their specification with founders’ and directors guidance and some third-party development help. They execute.
We build 360 degree all win solutions that:
- help support the homeless or soon to be homeless
- assist multiple agencies in completion of their support mission
- provide community members a way that they can help anonymously
- enable industry partners to be a part of the solution and have payback for their support
About Us
Our Mission
Our mission and values are to incubate and build today’s youth into entrepreneurs that will serve as next generation leaders in industry and public service. Instill empathetic and compassionate leadership that will energize their passions and contribute maximum social impact.
We provide youth social entrepreneurs with marketable skills they will use in their career and execute immediately on programs to incrementally solve big social problems. We collaborate and lobby governmental agencies to drive them to unifying architectures that can democratize secure and reliable access across disparate services across many agencies and programs. Additionally, we build onramps for industry partners to contribute to solutions and gain access to qualified people.
Entrepreneurs in Residence
We carefully adopt EIR’s and train them while preparing them for program work. The class is small and focused. These are paid internships through your donations or grants.
Community Product Solutions
EIR’s are assigned a program and execute tasks related to new product introduction and feasibility analysis
Teenaiders
For those that part not part of our EIR program, we offer voluntary assignment work, to aid those with needs in their local community or support out reach for our programs. This is our “teenaiders” program.
Our Activities
What We Do
These are some of our activities in support of our vision and mission
adopt and train Gen Z into Empathetic Leaders and INNOVATORS
Assess and Develop capabilities over a long term roadmap THAT SUPPORT HOMELESSness and disadvanatged support initiatives
enlist HIGH SCHOOL "TEENAIDERS" ASSISTING THEIR COMMUNITY
OUTREACH TO INDUSTRY, PUBLIC AGENCY, AND local COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP UNIFYING CAPABILITIES. INFLUENCE legislation that provides cornerstone support for any segment of the ecosystem
ASSIST GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN SOLUTIONS ARCHiTECTURE FOR HOMELESS or SOON TO BE HOMELESS
Provide devices or connectivity solutions from ACP and Lifeline
Skills Development
Fund our entrepreneurs in residence training in entrepreneurship, product management, and grant funding.
Solutions Development
Fund the projects that our youth entrepreneurs are actively working on.
TEENAIDERS
Fund gift cards to those in need, for us to outreach, to help them and validate our features and empathy maps. Additionally, provide other local community support for those in need.
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Your donations along with public and private grants we apply for are our own source of funding. We need you.
Learn how to get involved
We are always looking for budding high school and college entrepreneurs that want to change the world and want to apply as an entrepreneur in residence. We are very interested in governmental agencies or other non-profits that want us to help them with their mission so that we can synergize our efforts. Additionally, we need community members to help validate, promote, and support our programs.
Please join us.
Join our mission.
Volunteer, Donate, Advocate.
Email:info@socalsocialentrepreneurs.org
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