Lift Kids
Lift Kids
Take Action. Build a Village. Inspire Hope.

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23 years old
St. Paul, Minnesota
United States



Last Login: 6/2/2009
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Core Principles: SERVE

To help clarify our business model, we have created the acronym SERVE: Sustain, Educate, Replicate, Volunteer, Empower.

Sustain. Lift Kids Villages are economically and socially self-sustaining. Rather than relying on donations and handouts to cover their operations, they provide opportunities for the children—even at young ages—to become part of a family environment that works together to provide for each other. In economic terms, self-sustaining means that the village creates enough revenue through diverse business opportunities—chicken farming and egg production, for instance—to pay the village’s operating expenses.

Educate. Each Lift Kids Village will educate on both fundamental knowledge and specific vocational affairs, using curriculum provided by the local government and modified for a comprehensive range, from sex education to social and emotional skills to health and nutrition. Classes will be taught by two credentialed teachers and will also be available, when appropriate, to children and adults outside the village, with the goal of instilling the importance of giving back and empowering others. Lift Kids will reach out to the local businesses and schools to create internship and mentorship opportunities.

Replicate. We believe the philanthropic franchise model is the best approach to empowering kids. Because it’s our model that’s replicable—as opposed to our physical building plans—we replicate outcomes instead of surroundings. This means we can move fast, create sustainable change, and ensure that our high standards are met, yet avoid the cookie-cutter philanthropy that so often alienates partners on the ground.

Volunteer. Voluntourism will serve as an opportunity for investors to observe their investments grow both interpersonally and financially by encouraging their hands-on participation.

Empower. Lift Kids Villages teach both in the classroom and through the experience of working with each other and the village management, like a family. Each villager will be given a position of empowerment in running the village’s sustainability business and in maintaining the facilities. Additionally, by limiting villages to 40 orphans at a time, we create a more intimate environment that reaches kids at a very individual and personal level. This combination of action and individual attention will help kids learn that they are important, that they should take pride in their community, and that they is capable of impacting their worlds. It is our hope that this empowerment will live long after kids graduate from our villages, urging them to leadership.

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Hometown:Saint Paul
Zodiac Sign:Aquarius

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University Of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
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Student status: Alumni
Degree: In Progress
 

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Lift Kids is a Minnesota-based nonprofit service enterprise taking action on the plight of impoverished children via a philanthropic franchise model centered around what we call the Lift Kids Village. We have assembled a volunteer corps of experts ready to go build villages and seed sustainable change..

Taking Action to Educate and Empower Without concern for boundaries, borders, or divisions of any kind, we go to the places where children are starving and dying every day and build Lift Kids Villages that both alleviate immediate suffering by housing, feeding, and clothing kids, as well as empower them through education and entrepreneurial training.

Lift Kids Villages are homes—they are built to last, utilizing best-practice methods, and are intended to become self-sustaining by teaching entrepreneurial self-sufficiency and putting it into action to cover all operating costs. Kids learn the skills needed to both survive and thrive, and their community benefits from long-term sustainability.

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Partners. Our partners are diverse, from corporate funders to other philanthropic entities. We want you to join us. Please help us...

Donate; Invest in Empowerment
What we’re generating is best described as "micro seed capital." Start by backing a village, and see the results. Then 10 villages. Then 20. Then 50. The start-up ventures you fund will be backed by other organizations, and will pay off in a more stable global environment.

Get Involved through Voluntourism
Equally important to the money we need is the involvement of our partners in the form of voluntourism. The kids benefit from the additional skills a Lift Kids Village can leverage, and your business benefits by developing leaders.

Globalism, global economy, the flat world—whatever you call it, it’s impacting your life and business right now. Business needs development programs with global reach, and we offer just that. Each village funded offers ample accommodation for your leadership-track employees to have the experience of a lifetime, learn skills they can’t get at corporate HQ, and make a difference.

Bring Us Additional Opportunities
In your own community are foreign-born employees, or even those in first or second generations, who may be looking to empower kids in their ancestral homes. Lift Kids may be their opportunity to do so—and for you to facilitate. These passionate, intelligent, connected individuals can help us to locate and build additional Lift Kids Villages. We’d love to talk with them.

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