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Our founders, Andrew & Paula Ross, have run an event business for the past 10 years and have hired nearly 1000 students. We have seen how important it is to have great people to grow a business and have often been asked by our business colleagues how to find such great people to work. Meanwhile, our event staff often asks us to help their friend/relative find a job as their only resource is asking mom/dad or knocking on a bunch of doors.
We have created FORCE - The 1,000,000 High School Student Jobs Project - to eliminate barriers for students to find employment. Over the past 30 years, the statistics show that student employment is dropping greatly, and that is a huge issue for the future of our country.
Since college costs up to $200K, it is important for students to make more educated decisions, and that is best achieved by getting skills, experience and connections. We love runnng into the kids who once worked for our event business years later and hearing about how nuggets of their first job made a difference toward their future studies and career.We hope to be able to bring that type of experience to many people through FORCE.
FORCE aims to create an efficient marketplace where students can explore a variety of opportunities and employers can see a variety of interested potential workers.
Eventually, FORCE hopes to be the go-to place for student employment and we aim to facilitate one million jobs by 2016. We have just launched our beta site in the DC area and plan to go national in 2015.
The Funds
We launched our self-funded beta site in the DC area on March 1 and will need to raise approximately $150,000 to build out our site development and field marketing teams. To fit our mission, we aim to hire students for as many roles as possible, supplemented by professionals only as needed.
Our site development team will respond to user feedback to continue to add features and improve the site. Our field marketing team will do outreach to local high schools and companies and build toward job fairs/music festivals as we launch in new areas. We will also create partnerships with nonprofits who work with pools of disadvantaged students who need work opportunities. Our goal is to launch nationally in early 2015.
The Perks
The process for supporting the FORCE campaign is a bit different than a typical Fundrazr campaign as FORCE is super excited that our campaign's perks are sponsored by The Crowd Funder Show.
Here is how the process works to contribute to the FORCE campaign:
1) Make the contribution amount of your choice and pay
through Fundrazr - these funds will go to The Crowd Funder Show until
the end of the campaign.
2) The Crowd Funder Show will send you a redemption letter within 7 days to choose your perk. The perk will be a gift card to selected merchants at the same dollar value as your contribution.
3) You will need to sign and mail the redemption letter with a $2 processing fee to the address on the letter within 30 days following the end of the campaign date of June 14.
4) The Crowd Funder Show will send you your gift card within 14 days of receiving your letter.
5) FORCE will receive its funds after the campaign is over as well .
6) Further details will be provided via mail to your home address from Merton TV once you make your contribution. If you have any questions, please contact The Crowd Funder Show at joanna@mertontv.ca or FORCE at Andrew@worktheforce.com.
Thank you for your support of FORCE – The 1,000,000 High School
Student Jobs Project!
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Help support this campaign by making a $10.00 contribution and get a $10.00 sponsored Gift Card from places like SUBWAY, STARBUCKS and more! This Perk is sponsored by the Crowd Funder TV Show! We will contact you within 7-days so you can select your perk.
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Help support this campaign by making a $25.00 contribution and get a $25.00 sponsored Gift Card from places like BEST BUY, THE GAP, STARBUCKS, THE KEG, TOYS R US, SEARS and more! This Perk is sponsored by the Crowd Funder TV Show! We will contact you within 7-days so you can select your perk.
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Help support this campaign by making a $50.00 contribution and get a $50.00 sponsored Gift Card from places like BEST BUY, THE GAP, THE KEG, TOYS R US, SEARS, BOSTON PIZZA and more! This Perk is sponsored by the Crowd Funder TV Show! We will contact you within 7-days so you can select your perk.
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Help support this campaign by making a $100.00 contribution and get a $100.00 sponsored Gift Card from places like SEARS, HOME DEPOT, BEST BUY and more! This Perk is sponsored by the Crowd Funder TV Show! We will contact you within 7-days so you can select your perk.
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Help support this campaign by making a $10.00 contribution and get a $10.00 sponsored Gift Card from places like SUBWAY, STARBUCKS and more! This Perk is sponsored by the Crowd Funder TV Show! We will contact you within 7-days so you can select your perk.
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Help support this campaign by making a $25.00 contribution and get a $25.00 sponsored Gift Card from places like BEST BUY, THE GAP, STARBUCKS, THE KEG, TOYS R US, SEARS and more! This Perk is sponsored by the Crowd Funder TV Show! We will contact you within 7-days so you can select your perk.
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Help support this campaign by making a $50.00 contribution and get a $50.00 sponsored Gift Card from places like BEST BUY, THE GAP, THE KEG, TOYS R US, SEARS, BOSTON PIZZA and more! This Perk is sponsored by the Crowd Funder TV Show! We will contact you within 7-days so you can select your perk.
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Help support this campaign by making a $100.00 contribution and get a $100.00 sponsored Gift Card from places like SEARS, HOME DEPOT, BEST BUY and more! This Perk is sponsored by the Crowd Funder TV Show! We will contact you within 7-days so you can select your perk.
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