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    Fund a cohort. Bank what they build.

    Your community investment gives a cohort of people starting out a term to build toward a first job or a first venture. Your people help teach them the money skills they will need. What comes back is a cohort ready to bank with you, and a region you can show is growing.

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    A generation you can bank

    Your community investment team

    One commitment gives a cohort a full term: a seat for every member, the studios they build in, and coaching along the way. You choose the region and the school or organization you want to stand behind.

    1. 1You fund a cohortOne commitment gives a cohort a full term: a seat for every member, the studios they build in, and coaching along the way. You choose the region and the school or organization you want to stand behind.
    2. 2Money skills, taught with youThe money modules you already teach sit beside Facilitate's own, and your team delivers them with the educator. Every module ends in something the learner has made and can keep.
    3. 3A first account, a first dollarThey open the account, set the price, send the first invoice. Each one goes on their record as work they did, told in their own words.
    4. 4Ready to bank with youA venture with revenue in an account it owns, or a hire with a pay history behind them. People you can lend to, because their record shows what they have done.
    5. 5A region you can showA report for every cohort at the end of its term, and a regional view across them all. Who finished, what they built, and how much of that value stayed close to home.

    6. A generation you can bank

    What your team would be teaching.

    Joint delivery means your people are in the room. Each module ends in something the learner makes, and that thing goes on their record. Pick a module to see who does what.

    Your modules sit beside Facilitate’s own curriculum. Bring the ones you already teach and we integrate them.

    A first pay cheque

    The learner makes
    A one-month budget built on their own real numbers.
    Your team does
    Someone from your branch runs the session on deductions and direct deposit.
    What goes on the record
    The budget, and how it changed after coaching.

    What you would be able to report.

    Community investment is easy to spend and hard to show. This is what lands on your desk at the end of a term, for one cohort or rolled up across a region.

    One cohort, one term

    • Members enrolled24
    • Finished every money module21
    • Opened their first account17
    • Banked a first dollar from a venture9
    • Hired into a first job11

    Sample figures, for illustration. Your report carries your cohort’s real numbers, and every one of them traces back to a person’s own record.

    Regional economic development, counted one person at a time.

    One question tells you whether it worked. How much of what these people built stayed in the community that raised them?

    • Wages secured

      People hired, earning, and building a work history close to home.

    • Ventures banked

      New businesses with real revenue, in accounts they own.

    • Grants won

      Funding that reaches new builders and lands where they live.

    • Value kept local

      Wealth that takes root in the community instead of leaving it.

    A room of students and educators seated inside a bank branch, listening to a staff member present.

    Financial Institutions, Ontario

    A Branch Opens Its Doors

    A big-five bank opened a local branch to youth and their educators for a hiring day. Participants prepared on Facilitate (ideation, pitches, submissions, every step reviewed), then met recruiters where hiring actually happens. Momentum, meeting opportunity.

    Your first ninety days.

    1. Days 1 to 30Fund a cohort and choose the money modules together
    2. Days 31 to 60Educators deliver them with your team in the room
    3. Days 61 to 90Read the first report: who finished, what they built

    Put a cohort on your books.

    Tell us the region you care about and the size of cohort you have in mind. We will show you what the first ninety days look like, and what the first report will say about the people you backed.

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    Too many people finish school able and unseen by the people who can say yes. We are here to end unemployment at the start of working life, one connected region at a time.

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