Our Impact Model
Our Model
“Here’s what I do. Here’s how I got here. You can too.”
When a child hears that message early enough — and hears it again and again — the ceiling of their dreams rises. They aim higher. They choose differently. And the long arc of poverty can start to bend.
In-School Career Talks
We partner with elementary, middle, and high schools in underserved areas and send in speakers from elite professions — finance, tech, medicine, law, engineering, and more — to give 10-minute, highly engaging career talks.
We focus on day to day analogies, encouraging comparisons to pop-culture and themes kids would recognize, and highly engaging Q&A sessions whereby kids are rewarded for asking questions.
Each speaker demystifies their job, breaks down their journey, and answers questions in real-world terms. These talks are:
• Personal, not polished
• Conversational, not condescending
• Focused on clarity, relatability, and belief
The goal is to plant seeds. Many kids don’t dream of becoming a cardiologist because they’ve never met one. We change that.
Immersive, Cartoon-Based Digital Library
Each in-school talk is recorded and edited. The best of these are turned into 90-second, animated shorts — professionally produced, story-driven, and optimized for attention span.
These are hosted on our central platform (think TED or Masterclass for kids), and designed for:
• Parents to show kids at home
• Teachers to integrate into career days or homeroom
• Youth to binge the way they binge YouTube
Topics include everything from software engineering to venture capital, product design to law. Each episode simplifies the career, simultaneously humanizing and making a cartoon hero out of the speaker. Aspects of the job are portrayed in cartoonish, comedic, and/or heroic ways allowing kids to “dream big” of being an Engineer in the same way they may have dreamt big of being Spiderman or Batman.
Fellowships, Field Trips, and Scholarships
As we scale, we’ll build direct pipelines from exposure to access:
Fellowship Visits
Partner with companies to host student “career days” where youth tour an office, meet employees, and visualize the path firsthand
Access Grants
Provide $1,000+ microgrants for youth who show interest — whether for laptops, exam prep, travel, or program fees
Corporate Sponsorships
Corporations, brands, and firms directly sponsor access efforts for schools or districts
“Intergenerational wealth isn’t just about capital. It’s about access, confidence, and belief in what’s possible and what’s deserved.”
— Kristofer Madu, Founder & Executive Director
Conviction in Our Solution
Exposure improves outcomes
Youth in career exposure programs saw 90%+ job retention and consistently higher starting wages (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2023)
Mentorship impact
Youth with meaningful mentors are 52% less likely to skip school and 74% say their mentor contributed significantly to their lifelong success (MENTOR National; Public/Private Ventures)
Leadership & community engagement
Mentored youth are 92% more likely to volunteer and 75% more likely to hold leadership roles