Board of Directors Packet
Board of Directors Packet
🎓 Welcome to the ReachBack Board!
Your leadership is opening doors for youth, young adults, and aspiring entrepreneurs. Thank you for helping build brighter futures through purpose, opportunity, and community.
We’re excited to have you with us! 💼🌱✨
#ReachBack #BoardWelcome #LeadershipInAction
As we work through the onboarding process, we will be adding your picture and information to the website.
Why It Takes Community-Based Individuals Like You to Make a Difference
While education is important not all education is created equal.
Your board giving, volunteerism, and strategic work fights poverty, builds equity, and levels the education playing fields for all communities to thrive.
The Problem You Will Help Solve?
💡Educational Progress
🌿 Improve the Education Landscape For the Next Generation as You Want It To Be.
America is at a 40 year low in entrepreneurship activity, this impacts entrepreneurship educational progress.
Studies show that many U.S. high school students are disengaged from learning (40-60%, this is a crisis).
ReachBack is transforming the education landscape in underserved communities and empowering undercapitalized entrepreneurs who are driving community impact through non-tech solutions for social causes. Our beneficiaries include K-12 youth, young adults, aspiring entrepreneurs, and small business owners.
Learn more about us, our mission and vision
ReachBack is a grassroots, community advisory, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to entrepreneurship and career development initiatives. We believe anyone who wants to lead should have the opportunity. Working with us, you'll see our approach to many challenges is to do common things in uncommon ways, “George Washington Carver”.
America is at a 40 year low in entrepreneurship activity, under-capitalized startups, grassroots nonprofits, new generation of leaders, both youth and young adults, and under-resourced communities are at risk the most.
Our mission is to identify Community ChangeMakers and empower them with advanced knowledge in entrepreneurship startup methods and strategies; specifically, finance, strategy, and digital transformation. Doing so, we strengthen communities.
Why did ReachBack choose entrepreneurship as the pathway to help solve Educational Progress?
Entrepreneurship education is a catalyst for innovation, growth, and empowerment, and it builds a society that values creativity, independence, and resilience.
It helps individuals with:
📈 Adopting a Growth Mindset
🦁 Increasing Grit
🏅Achieving Goals
🔆 Envisioning
⚡ Becoming Innovative
Entrepreneurship education offers significant benefits for both society and individuals.
Economic Growth: It fosters innovation, leading to new products, services, and industries that drive economic progress.
Job Creation: Entrepreneurs create jobs not only for themselves but for others, reducing unemployment.
Resilience and Sustainability: By teaching problem-solving and resourcefulness, it helps build communities that are better able to adapt to changes and challenges.
Reduced Inequality: Promotes access to knowledge and resources, leveling the playing field for marginalized or underserved populations.
Community Development: Entrepreneurs often invest in local communities, strengthening infrastructure and social bonds.
Skill Development: Teaches essential skills like critical thinking, creativity, communication, and financial literacy, which are valuable in any field.
Empowerment: Encourages confidence and self-reliance, showing young people or micro-entrepreneurs that they can create opportunities for themselves.
Early Exposure to Business Concepts: Instills an entrepreneurial mindset from a young age, preparing them for future challenges and opportunities.
Access to Networks and Resources: Provides connections and tools that small players might not otherwise access, leveling the playing field.
Pathway to Economic Mobility: Helps individuals and small businesses understand how to scale sustainably, improving their financial stability and prospects.
Social Impact Awareness: Encourages creating ventures that address societal issues, instilling a sense of responsibility and impact-driven growth.
The nonprofits that are sustainable are ran by big institutions: Red Cross, Boys & Girls Club, YMCA, Girl/Boys Scouts, and more... You get a chance to create the narrative and close the gaps these organizations are not able to fill.