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Youth Enterprise Center (2017 target opening date)
Delancey Street meets Artists for Humanity
A 40-year model of social entrepreneurship, education
and rehabilitation for ex-convicts and ex-addicts and
teaches them to run businesses*
Founded in 2004, bridges economic, racial, and social
divisions by providing under-resourced urban youth with the keys to self- sufficiency through
paid employment in art and design.
CCEA
Enterprise
Center
* Also have a student operated model called the
Life Learning Academy High School founded in
1998
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Testimonials for Model Organizations
"When I started Artist for Humanity, Boston was 2nd to LA in youth violence. What I found
were, young people were hungry for the opportunity to have a voice. I found young
people were excited that people had to hear what they had to say" -Susan Rodgerson, Founder & Executive Director Artists for Humanities
"Delancey Street is an incredible mixture of pure idealism and hard practicality. It is the best and the most successful organization I have studied in the world" -Dr. Karl Menninger, Founder Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic
“I call us the Harvard of the underclass. We work very hard to get the bottom 1% or 2% of the country. Harvard gives you academic skills; we give you academic skills and vocational skills, and we teach you to get along with people that are very unlike yourself. And we have a better football team.” -Mimi Silbert, Founder Delancey Street Foundation
“[Susan] set up something so intelligently set up for human beings to actually succeed, no matter who you are” -Nina Nielsen, Founder of the famous Nielsen Gallery in Boston
Mission
Break the cycle of urban poverty by engaging under-inspired youth (14-24) through connecting creativity with work skills that inspires business success for lifelong financial self-sufficiency.
Students innovate thru:
• Generating revenue thru multiple youth-run, business micro-enterprises;
• Studying and practicing Workforce Readiness Skills and Creative Problem Solving; and
• Developing a personal sense of purpose thru skill-based, experiential learning.
Benefits to the Community & CT
• Unlocks the potential and value of people who already live in our city
• Systemically addresses workforce challenges in the area
• Serves as pilot project that can be expanded to other struggling cities in CT
• Reignites the innate desire to learn – teaching youth to love to learn rather than feeling disenchanted in a book learning model
Source: https://www.arts.gov/news/2016/arts-and-cultural-production-contributed-7042-billion-us-economy-2013
Why Creative Problem Solving & Creative Economy?
In 2013, Arts & Cultural production contributed $704 B to US Economy
Hartford’s Creative Industry represents over 8% of CT GDP vs. 4.2%
nationally
Arts & Culture is growing faster than the accommodation and food service,
retail and transportation and warehouse industries
Aligns with 21st century learning standards
Why Work-Based?
Increased attendance and
graduation rates of students in
work-based programs*
Future members of the
workforce need to develop the
so called “soft skills” (teamwork, creative problem solving,
communication, etc.)
Employers want to hire
individuals who display
positive social skills#
Application of learned skills to
real-world problems is part of
Common Core State
Standards
# Bremer & Madzar, 1995 * Colley & Jamison, 1998
Youth led Micro-Enterprises: Creativity Labs
WORKFORCE READINESS
CAREER ACCESS
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Art & Design
Lab
Social Entrepreneurship
Lab
Events & Entertainment
Lab
Pathway to Success:
Industry Support
CCEA
Enterprise
Center
The Design of Enterprise Center
● Hartford Mentoring
Collaborative:
○ Governor’s Prevention
Partnership
○ Nutmeg Big Bro Big Sis
○ Futuros Program
● University of Next
● Dream Chaser Academy
● No Child Held Back
● Corporate Partners:
○ Prudential
○ HAI Group
○ Metro Hartford Alliance
○ Small Biz Association
● Career Access Days
● Speed Mentoring & Drop
in Support Sessions
● Capital City Education
Alliance: WFRR* ○ Billings Forge
○ Blue Hills Civic
○ Capital Workforce Partners
○ Center for Latino Progress
○ CBIA
○ Goodwin College
○ Hartford Public Schools
○ OPP
○ Jobs for America’s Grads
○ Junior Achievement
○ Junior Apprentice
○ Minority Inclusion Project
○ Urban League
○ YMCA
Partners: Industry Support
WORKFORCE READINESS
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
CAREER ACCESS
*Workforce Readiness Roundtable
● Business development
workshops for youth:
○ Budgeting
○ Biz. plan development
○ Sales
○ Etc.
● Nonprofit consulting
services
● LLC & Nonprofit
Registration services for
Youth Innovators
Micro-Enterprises: Centers of Excellence
Arts & Design Studio
Social Entrepreneurship
Events & Entertainment
● Nonprofit fundraisers
● Music venue for
performances
● Corporate luncheons &
dinners
● Team Work & Leadership
Training workshops
● Exercise classes
● Youth Fine Arts & Painting
Gallery
● “Let’s Paint” Mural
Projects
● Marketing Campaigns:
Flyers, social media,
advertising, etc
● Graphic Design work
● Website Development
● Functional Sculpture
Design Projects
Proposed Location: 81 Asylum Street
Property Profile:
2 Floors & ~4,700 sq ft
$4,000 per month NNN
Rated as “Walkers Paradise”
High vehicle & foot traffic
volume
Unfavorable contract
conditions in the original LOI
Located in Downtown
Hartford: All busses lead here
Prime Location in Downtown Hartford
Seed Money & Sustainability
2016- Seed Funding Target $150,00
Crowd Funding- To Date $3,000 (YE est. $5,000 ) Crowdrise Platform
HAI Group $3,000+In-Kind Pledged
Prudential $5,000+In-Kind Pledged
Individual Giving/Fundraisers $2,000 Est. based on pipeline
Private Foundation/Corporation Implementation Funding $35,000 Est. based on pipeline
Capital City Education Alliance $100,000 Pending
2017- Operating Funding Target: 500,000
Private Foundations/Corporations $350,000 Current estimate
Individual Giving/Fundraisers $75,000 Est. based on pipeline
Collaborative Grants $40,000 ie. Greater Hartford Arts Council
Event space rental & event hosting $20,000 TBD based on funding to open doors
Crowd Funding $15,000 Continue Crowdrise Platform
2018- Sustainability Funding
Working Cities Challenge $500,000 TBD until decisions made.
Private Foundations/Corporations $500,000 Growth from relationships in 2017
Other Fundraising and Revenue $250,000 Includes all other revenue like individual, crowdfunding, etc.
Creativity Lab Revenue $100,000 Building pipeline of sales
Capital City Education Alliance:
Lead Nonprofit Agency
Martha Guidry [email protected]
The Implementation Team
The RiseUP Group:
Implementation Consultant
Matt Conway [email protected]
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