Idea Description
Our mission is to start a non-profit organization that will guide, influence, and help students achieve their dreams by providing them with a “Guide” (certified counselor) to follow them through their educational career. A ”Guide” will be assigned to a portfolio of 100 students and be responsible for building a profile for each student (dreams, goals, problems, etc.), administering tests/evaluations, promoting pursuit of dreams and goals, providing resources helping guide students towards their dreams, preparing monthly reports of progress for students/parents, setting up 1 on 1 meetings with students/parents, and providing recommendations to parents to help assist students.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
What will you do if you win the $10,000?
The $10,000 will be used to help start-up the organization in NW Arkansas.
It will help with the initial costs of website development, initial advertising costs, legal counsel, and generating support from our local community.
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I will also employee individuals whose sole responsibility will be researching and contacting people and establishments that can provide resources for our students. I believe once the word gets out about our mission: resources and partnerships will increase and play a significant role in helping our guides in helping our student’s ability to achieve their goals and dreams. This will be a membership based organization ran from locally bases centers and will cost in between $40 and $80/month. Seventy five percent of this monthly cost is to pay out wages to our employment force. The other twenty five percent will be used for obtaining resources and paying for fixed costs to run the business.
I want to list a few questions that have inspired me to pursue this idea: Are our children pursuing their dreams on a regular basis? Is our educational system doing an adequate job in getting students motivated to stay focused on their dreams and goals? Does our success lead to happiness or does happiness breed success? Would it be easier to achieve your goals and dreams if you had a guide?
As someone with a huge interest in aspiring young people to better themselves, I wanted to touch on the questions you listed. Our children get their dreams stripped from them as they get older and more jaded. Nothing kills a child's dream more effectively than parents who have given up on their dreams themselves. Our educational system is doing a horrible job of motivating and aspiring dreamers. It is really good at looking at quantitative measures of academic progress, but has no way to measure the qualitative nature of dreams. Happiness is the origin. Successful people can be unhappy. Happy people define their success by what is important to them so they will always manage to be successful. To the last question, a resounding YES. Unfortunately, kids stop dreaming because…more parents teach them to focus on the practiical. To become better motivated to follow their dreams, kids need to follow dreamers, and not be disuaded by dream stealers.