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This project was completed on Aug 15, 2018
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Matched with Sofia C.
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See the Impact story
Online Research
Project details
What we need
- A compilation of research on a specific topic (e.g. industry best practices, literature review, media contacts, industry trends, etc.) including a list of sources
- Recommendations on areas for further exploration/research
- Note: This project is not designed to be used for prospect or grant research
What we have in place
- We currently have other orgs that we have partnered with, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have a person dedicated to this, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $7,984 , allowing us to make more career resources and inspire, expose and educate more students to a wide variety of careers!
The success of our organization depends on finding education partners to distribute our free resources. Without your help, we cannot connect w/orgs to partner to address career counseling gap. Your skills will empower us to supplement the work of other orgs with our career resources.
Project plan
Posted by
Michelle C.
Co-Founder / Executive Director, Gladeo
Our mission
Gladeo is a digital media non-profit fostering career exploration for young people from diverse backgrounds. We are dedicated to inspiring and helping young people discover, navigate and achieve their dream careers by creating innovative multimedia career content and distributing it online (through the web and social media) and offline (through school counselors and our career exploration workshop).
What we do
We created a "Virtual Career Day", an online portal where guidance counselors and students can learn about the vast array of careers from our ever-growing library of content.
Our content is Inspirational: The challenge with non-celebrity careers is that the people who do them and their success stories (and they do exist) are less flashy and don't get blasted across social media, and as a result, the inspiration they could have sparked doesn't spread. Gladeo shares inspiring career stories (written and video) of diverse individuals to breakdown stereotypes, to open eyes to new opportunities, and to inspire people to believe that their aspirations are achievable. "You need to see it, to believe it."
Our content is Informational: We take a personal and action-oriented approach, gathering first-hand, practical knowledge directly from actively working professionals, not just information downloaded from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We also include non-linear career tracks that don't follow an easily navigable path. We include information like what they need to be doing in high school and college to prepare, what classes they need to be taking, what trade magazines to start reading, what educational institutions have the best programs, how to land that first foot in the door and more.
Gladeo gives school counselors the resources they need to inspire and expose their students to the vast world of possibilities, not just the ones in their community and to empower their students to make informed decisions about their future.
Testimonials
Sofia was such a pleasure working with. She helped identify key strategic partnerships for our organization and her research was thorough and quick. Thank you so much Sofia!
Michelle is so great to work with! Had fun with this research project!
