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Leadership & Skills Development
WHO WE ARE
Since 2008, The NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program (501c3) has served as a nonprofit workforce intermediary that specializes in creating interconnected, project-based learning programs that transform critical thinking, critical reasoning and life skills into readiness skills for college, career, business & community reinvestment.
Standards
Meets US CTE Course Standard #1
2,000+
6-12th grade students engaged
80%
Immediate gains in skills identification
100%
Effective in optimizing output
August 2020. Paulding County, GA becomes the first school district to integrate Community On Demandâ„¢ into their 4-Year Perkins V Funded Career, Technical and Agricultural (CTAE) Employability Skills Development Strategy for all 6th-8th grades.

WHAT WE OFFER
Our Development Strategies
We simply meet you where you are!
We offer professional development training to help educators create innovative learning ecosystems that acknowledge various mindsets, leverage existing local resources, and produce high quality, effective and optimized outputs.
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We leverage the impact of work-based learning experiences as pre-cursors to service projects and social ventures to help community stakeholders address, reduce, and/or eliminate the impact of socio-economic conditions negatively affecting their local economy.
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Learn more about the Community On Demandâ„¢ game-based LMS
aSTEAM Village integrates Community On Demandâ„¢ into their Digital KC Now initiative
STEAM Revolution introduced Community On Demandâ„¢ during the West Point LEADS event.

Paulding County School District