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This project has been over two years in the making. We're a small, but growing team and our goal is to help local youth and young adults in our community develop into their future potential.
Initially, we will do this by building out a team of amazing mentors. These Mentors are available to speak 1:1 with Members who would like to hear about their experience and get mentor feedback.
You can learn more about us and our mission.
We need help. To date, this project has been a significant 6-figure investment led by the founders. We can't do it alone. Our board can't do it alone. We need your help! So now we're reaching out to people like you who might be interested in:
  • Making a donation. Your donation is tax-deductible and the donate button is in the bottom right-hand corner :)
  • For those who are unable to donate but believe in our mission, we’re building out a list of Friends of the Program so we can show potential donors how many people think this is an amazing idea that serves the good of the community– we’d love for you to join, there’s absolutely no requirement or obligation whatsoever.
  • And if you are willing to make time for a 30-minute session with a Member who would like to meet with you, whether once a month or once a year, we’re looking for Mentors and would love to consider you.
Every contribution helps and any donation amount brings us one step closer to being able to fund our annual operations. The Friends of the Program form takes 30 seconds to complete and costs absolutely nothing. If you'd like, you can learn more about our Launch Schedule and everything we're working on.
I really hope we can count on your support, and cannot express how grateful I am for your consideration!
With gratitude,
 Andrew Elliott Founder, President & Chair

Where your donation goes

The cornerstone of what TalentDreams will do initially, is develop a population of mentors to serve our members. We will need a database backend to support this, as well as a matching engine that allows members to peruse mentors and schedule time with them. This is what we're building in the prototype phase and where the majority of our early operating budget will go. In time, TalentDreams will need to develop a significant budget to support full-time operations and staffing needs. Today there are staff working for free, part and full-time, whom we will eventually need to put on payroll. For now, we just need enough to cover:
  • $15,000: Early Staffing into 2023
  • $15,000: Technology Platform (website development, hosting, digital properties, matching platform, database, etc)
  • $10,000: Operations (everything around the program ie general expenses, partners/vendors, legal fees, donor collateral, digital assets, etc)
  • $25,000: Marketing (we have to recruit Mentors to fill the supply-side, and then Members on the demand-side, which means requires us to be where they are)

Tax Exempt status - Nonprofit

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(805) 270-5586
Communities Served
Central Coast, CA Bay Area, CA
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