HELP US TAKE TALENT TO THE TOP
While education is important, not all education is created equal.
Your gift opens doors to early learning opportunities in entrepreneurship and career development.
$5/mo pays for an annual membership for one child to become a member of the ReachBack Youth-Junior Career Explore Club
$25/mo helps one aspiring entrepreneur launch their business idea with 1-on-1 coaching
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KEY INITIATIVES IN PROGRESS
THE REACHBACK AGENDA
In December 2024 - We Launched the ReachBack 5-2-1 Community Impact Initiative
The Making of the ReachBack Community Office is a bold initiative where we lead collaborative efforts with micro-enterprises to meet community needs at the ground level—developing real solutions that fuel impactful change and expand economic mobility in our local neighborhoods.
The Development of the Walking Entrepreneurship Academy is an initiative focus on recruiting 250 strategist and coaches to share their expertise and knowledge. Together, we aim to close the gap in foundational entrepreneurship and career education.
The MainStreet Angels Empowering Tomorrow is a leadership initiative to recruit 40 changemakers who are ready to invest financially, mentor emerging motivated individuals, and champion sustainable community growth. Together, we will provide guidance, advocacy, and investment to uplift grassroots organizations, and build a stronger foundation for economic mobility and lasting impact.
🎧 Want to learn more about the 5-2-1 Initiative?
Follow our podcast series below as ReachBack travels to different cities to share the vision and stories behind the movement.
Community Think Tanks
The Making of the ReachBack Community Office
The Community Think Tank
Learn more about the Office... Podcast 7:14 mins.
February 18, 2025
Micro-enterprises
The Development of the Walking Entrepreneurship Academy
Joining Forces with Micro-Entrepreneurs
Learn more about the Academy... Podcast is 5 mins.
December 19, 2024
Main Street Angels
The MainStreet Angels Empowering Tomorrow
The Small Business Executive Roadshow
Learn more about the Angels... Podcast is 8 mins.
October 25, 2024
REACHBACK BELIEVES
Regardless of your zip code or background
If you are determined to be a leader or scale your business, you should have an equitable opportunity.
The Problem
The exclusivity, bias, and lack of diversity have harmed America's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
America's entrepreneurship activity is at a 40-year low and many high school students whom we depend on to run future businesses need encouragement from established leaders to find their grit. So many young talented individuals are hidden in our local communities. Their talents have been ignored, investors find them too difficult to work with and leaders who can help them, can't see their value.
ReachBack Sees Value
OUR SOLUTION
We intentionally design our projects to be comprehensive and long-term, providing participants with enriching education experiences.
Our mission is to eradicate the lack of entrepreneurship support in the local community.
Studies show a great number of entrepreneurs (69%) do not think the government cares.
With unparalleled entrepreneurship support, we empower the Community ChangeMakers, that's our youth, young adults, aspiring entrepreneurs, and the small business owners.
When our entrepreneurs win, our local communities strengthen with great social programs, jobs, philanthopy, and access to capital.
We help our beneficiaries win with a winning strategy by taking them on a "Journey of the CEO's Mindset", a ReachBack proprietary model.
The Journey of the CEO's Mindset
Our Curriculum
Our programs help young people increase their motivation for learning by connecting them to real-world leadership and business problems.
Entrepreneurs get a jumpstart to starting a business
Youth get work experience so they're attractive to employers
We are an entrepreneurial, experiential learning pre-seed accelerator that provides business and professional training.
- Entrepreneurship Training
Start-up Business Planning
Financial Modeling
Risk Management Planning
Strategic & Exit Planning
Partnership Planning
Operational Planning
Sales & Marketing Planning
Deals and Negotiation Planning
- Workforce Development Training
Career Development Planning
Job Hunting Skills & Preparation
Experiential Learning Opportunities
What Happens After Training
Entrepreneurs Work in Their Passion Running a Startup Business.
Intrapreneurs Work in Their Passion and Are Placed in Sector-Based Careers with Advancement, or National Service, e.g. AmeriCorps.
^Intrapreneurs are employees with an entrepreneurial mindset.
Participants Become a ReachBack Alumni and Receive Post Service Support.
Many Young People Are Lost Trying to Figure Out This Thing Called Entrepreneurship.
🤗ReachBack Entrepreneurship Pre-accelerator Program launches in Sept each year
🙂 ReachBack Career Explore Pre-accelerator starts in August - June of following year
WHO SHOULD APPLY
Community Innovators who have ideas.
Our definition of a Community Innovator is an entrepreneur or intrapreneur with creative skills. These individuals want to share their gifts with the world but haven't figured it out.
Our Motto
COLLABORATE - INVEST - SHARE KNOWLEDGE
Entrepreneurs
Lead a Startup
🚀 Become an Entrepreneur Community Innovator
Receive Coaching and Mentoring from Management Consultants and Founders
Take Part in Venture Back or Bank Ready Startups
Learn What Top Accelerators Teach and Want
Learn Valuable Business, Executive, Financial and Project Management Skills
Put Your Leadership Skills to Work
Work in Your Passion
10-week to 6-Month Accelerated Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Receive ReachBack Ongoing Support
Research shows all small businesses start small, but too many stay small. We help you learn to scale.
Young Adults
Lead in the Workforce
📕 Become an Intrapreneur Community Innovator
Receive Coaching from Small Business Owners
Gain Valuable Business, Consulting, Financial and Project Management Skills
Learn an Industry and Sector-base Career
Build Your Confidence By Working On Tough Business Issues
Solve Real Business Problems
Up to 3-months of Small Business Internship
Become Marketable and Job Ready
Workforce Placement Support
Explore Your Passion
Receive ReachBack Ongoing Support
Nearly half of college graduates are underemployed in their first jobs, a third of engineering students and majority personal culinary services grads can't find jobs. We help you find jobs.
Small Business Owners
Lead Founders
😇 Become a Mainstreet Angel
Mentor and Coach an Entrepreneurial Team
Submit Your Ideas
Share in the ReachBack Collective Equity and Revenue Sharing Model
Offer Guidance in Running a Business
Provide Connections and Networking Opportunities
Drive Economic Development Initiatives
Participate in the process of Ideation of a Startup
Be Recognized as a ReachBack MainStreet Angel Supporter
You ever heard of the phrase, "ideas are a dime a dozen?" The perpetuation in the gap of business knowledge and fair access to capital supports why this phrase is true. Let's work together to give more leaders an opportunity to launch their businesses.
Youth Directors
Lead a Youth Project
🏫 Become a Director for Youth Community Innovators
Support Youth in Your Community and Savings Plans, e.g. 529 Plan
Teach Youth Valuable Business, Financial and Career Skills
Choose New, Community Uplifting and Experiential Projects
Provide Youth with the Entrepreneurship and 21st Century Skills Needed Today
Inspire and Prepare Young People to Succeed and Become Informed Consumers
Inform Young People About Career Opportunities They May Not Have Otherwise Known About
Receive ReachBack Ongoing Support
An unmotivated student's desire to learn starts at the beginning of elementary and decreases steadily until they graduate from high school or dropout. Help us make change.
WHY SUPPORT US
Community Innovators Supported by:
Strategist and Researchers
Financial Modeling & Planning
Access to Capital & Career Support
One Organization or Community Can't Drive Social Progress Alone.
We're Strategists and Researchers dedicated to redesigning proven financial models and frameworks that drive social progress and access to capital in the local community, executed in unprecedented ways to measurably improve lives.
By doing so, ReachBack will help create new Main Street entrepreneurs and provide access for the unemployed and underemployed young adults and youth to gain knowledge, new skills and/or upskills for career progression and leadership roles.
Local Governments & Agencies
Become a ReachBack Community
The ReachBack Initiative is for Municipal Entities who want to support small businesses and youth in an innovative way and are the pioneers of early adoption programs as a model to bring about innovation and community progress for all its citizens.
The ReachBack 5-2-1 Community Impact Initiative is an entrepreneurial, economic development initiative and social partnership.
Economic Mobility is a high priority and challenge for municipal leaders to correct.
By joining the initiative, municipal leaders can drive the change that unmotivated students need to adopt a growth mindset; all while increasing economic mobility and social progress for all its citizens and small businesses.
Join the ReachBack 5-2-1 Initiative
📜 Policy Makers Must Act to Strengthen Entrepreneurship
Impact by 2028
50 Local Government/Community Agencies
1000 Small Businesses
24,000 Youth
Partner
or
Volunteer
Share Your Talent with ReachBack
The ReachBack Initiative is for individuals and organizations who care about growing talent.
Business Associations
Grow Membership
📈Seek Economic Development Growth
Partner With Us
Provide Another Valuable Service to Your Members to Help Them Grow Their Businesses
Provide the Research Your Community Needs to Inform
Drive Small Businesses with Another Economic Development Model
Get Recognized as the Catalyst for Meaningful Community Projects
Be the First to Know What Small Businesses are Starting Up and Their Training Needs
Be Recognized as a ReachBack Partner
Corporations
Hire Intrapreneurs
🎖️ Look for Great Talent
Partner With Us
Tap Into a Pipeline of Talented and Trained Young Adults with Intrapreneurial Skills
Screened and Access Job Candidates Who Have Passion for the Skills You Desire
Workforce Participants Learn Highly Sought After Skills in the Area of Sales, Consulting, Project Management, and Sector-Based Demand Careers; as well as Professional Soft Skills like Communications, Team Work, Time Management, Research and Critical Thinking - Our Goal is Resourcefulness
Work to Meet the Needs of Corporations Through a Long-term Hiring Strategy, Strategic Placement and Talent Search
Be Recognized as a ReachBack Partner
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
Coach and Mentor
🎁 Believes in Wealth Knowledge Transfer
Partner With Us
As a Subject Matter Expert (SME), Mentor and Coach Participants
Offer Guidance in Your Field of Study No Matter Your Background
Facilitate Meet-ups and Topics for Discussion
Share in the ReachBack Collective Equity and Revenue Sharing Model
Because of Your Knowledge, You Can Be Proud Knowing Someone Avoided Making the Mistakes You Made
Be Recognized as a ReachBack Supporter
TOTAL IMPACT
Community participation reflects the collective support of volunteers, sponsors, partners, beneficiaries, and others advancing the cause—and our impact is measured by the lives empowered through training opportunity, and economic growth.
If you've read this far, you already have a sense of the real challenges that come with entrepreneurship and career development.
Say yes and undertake this journey with ReachBack and its supporters to help strengthen communities and grow the next generation of talent.
ARE YOU READY TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE 🙃
Join the ReachBack 5-2-1 Community Impact Initiative
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