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MadeByKIDS Foundation

Introduction

MadeByKIDS is an idea incubator and a global non-profit youth mentoring organization. This action oriented program begins by someone mounting their idea to improve the world or make it more sustainable on the MadeByKIDS website. This attracts people from around the world who want to make a difference by helping complete the project. Each project becomes a highly empowering skill development program for those under 30 by having these youth perform the projects under the guidance of the older mentors and subject matter experts. Through direct engagement, the youth gain hands-on real world experience in all phases of implementation of the product, service or process from design, manufacturing, marketing, or distribution.

Mission

Mentoring the world?s youth by engaging all generations in global collaborative projects to create a sustainable future for all.

MadeByKIDS Vision

Our vision is best understood by imagining the positive effects MadeByKIDS will have on our society. So imagine when:

?       Youth learn about the real world by performing projects in the area of their passion

?       Mentors apply their valuable skills and pass on their knowledge to the next generation.

?       Youth and mentors gift their ideas and time to improve and benefit our world

?       Youth are given the opportunity to experiment and create the future they prefer 

?       People are encouraged to find and follow their passion throughout their entire life

?       In the process of performing open-source collaborative projects, the global family is united bycollectively working towards the common goal of creating a sustainable¹world for all

¹ Sustainable is meeting present needs without compromising the needs of future generations or consuming resources faster than nature provides them.

Vision of Youth

The vision of MadeByKIDS youth includes:

?       Giving youth a voice in anything that effects their future

?       Enabling them to make a profound and lasting difference in the world

?       An experiential learning program that complements and revitalizes education

?       Provides a sense of fulfillment by adding purpose and meaning to their lives

Goals

?       Learning: Integrate education, industry and commerce into one experiential learning program to promote lifelong learning. Encourage youth and mentors alike to follow their passions while designing and building a better future through experience, skills, confidence and self esteem.

?       Teaching: Transfer the knowledge, wisdom and experience of mentors to the youth.

?       Problem solving:Increase creativity and problem solving abilities among all team members while learning how to fully utilize the available resources in society

?       Open source: Provide public development of ideas, methods and technologies through open sourcing and the donation of beneficial concepts to the public domain

?       Global community building: Develop local and global community through sharing ideas, cooperation, collaboration, and performing projects that benefit all

Who we are

Founders and staff of MadeByKIDS are people who are dedicated to improving our world. The entire organization encompasses successful business owners, entrepreneurs, engineers, marketers and lay people.

MadeByKIDS is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization which can provide tax deductions to its donors.

How it works

MadeByKIDS website provides a meeting place where people, having the same interests, can unite to pursue their passions and contribute to creating a better world.

In this comfortable, well organized meeting place, youth and mentors form a team. This team then recruits others including world-class subject matter experts.

Most importantly, this virtual meeting space provides each team with a step-by-step on-line interactive process and collaborative tools to collectively transform their passionate ideas into reality.

Since MadeByKIDS is Internet driven, thousands of simultaneous projects covering the entire breadth of human need and creativity extends beyond all borders and cultures with minimal overhead.

The innovations and intellectual property developed within the MadeByKIDS will be available for anyone to use or manufacture under a nonexclusive license. Funds received will be used to globally expand the program and finance additional youth-mentor projects.

Current Projects

Throughout the past two years, MadeByKIDS has received an overwhelming positive response. Heightened interest is evident through the increase in volunteering from youth and mentors and the high level of cooperation from businesses, institutions, and the community. The unique nature and flexibility of the program lends itself to collaboration with other nonprofit organizations and implementation of community projects. It has proven its ability to attract youth, the best and brightest mentors, and the resources it needs.

Following is a list of some of our ongoing projects:

?        Website Development

MadeByKIDS is currently creating an easy-to-follow, step-by-step web-based project development and management system so that project teams can easily collaborate and coordinate their efforts online.  When this system is fully functional, hundreds of projects will be able to be performed simultaneously with very low overhead. The team consists of three mentors, three youths and one paid web developer.

?        Documentary Filmmaking

Mentors trained two high school students to write scripts, film on location, operate and use professional video equipment, and edit the footage into a pleasing documentary about MadeByKIDS.

?        Online Passion Discovery Game

Team members will create a specially designed software game that determines one?s passionate interests. The project will involve volunteer experts who will do a personal assessment.

?        Water Recycling Shower

The youth explore how to create a shower that recycles its water. They work with top scientists to understand the best way to filter, reheat and pump the water. Team members build models and test their ideas to develop a shower that uses the least amount of water and energy.  This project team has already selected two volunteer filter experts, Professor Clyde Witham and Dr. Scott Cumberland, the inventor of the Brita water filter.

?        Super Composter

To divert food scraps from rotting and polluting in dumps, youth are designing and building a small composter for restaurants and grocery stores.

?        Solutions Discovery

Think of a fun, challenging, and exciting way for people to solve world problems. What you?ll get is a combination of today?s most advanced problem solving methods and a graphical system of how the brain thinks integrated into a single online game. That?s www.SolutionsDiscovery.org.

Funding

MadeByKIDS seeks funding for operations and staffing to start up, expand, and support for its local and global youth-mentor project teams. It provides for offices, equipment, supplies and operational expenses is needed for completion of the web site, salaries, and seed capital for projects to get them into the implementation stage where sales will enable MadeByKIDS to become self-sustaining.

For kids to create community and improve our world requires resources. You can make a real difference in their lives and their future by donating, endowing, sponsoring, mentoring, or contributing all types of resources from frequent flyer miles to factory space or a monthly donation.

If you find MadeByKIDS exciting, like so many people do, then make a difference by helping it happen.

Contribute your time, resources or both.

MadeByKIDS gives YOUth a voice and leaves Mentors a legacy