Uplift, Inc. is a nonprofit tech diversity and inclusion firm that operates training programs to expose family leaders and their childen/ grandchildren to the IT professions to reduce the ‘Digital Talent Shortage’ and poverty.
Our mission is to increase the economic mobility of low-income parents and their children by preparing them for IT Professional Trades jobs and/or startups.
Change the Parent/ Family Leader,
Change the Children,
Change the Neighborhood,
Change the School,
Change the World.
The advantage that countries like the United States retain is the ability to invent. Nations (neighborhoods, cities and states) that remain economically strong are those that can create intellectual property - and the ability to innovate largely comes out of an ability to play,
Dr. Stuart Brown, Author, Play
Professor, Stanford D.School
Parents are not Thriving in the Jetson Age?
The 21st century is upon us. As excerpted from the book, Escape to College, "Remember the cartoon, the Jetsons, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon created in the fifties and sixties, to depict the future. George, Jane, Judy, Elroy, Rosie the robot servant, Mr. Spacely drove Flying cars, used Video Phones and moving sidewalks to shuttle them from place to place."
"While The Jetsons cartoon was fantasy in 1950, sixty years later, it has become a reality today. Don't remember the Jetson Cartoon? Watch an episode here."
Flat Screen TV
Robots
Video Phone
Movable Sidewalk
Slot Machines
"Many of these inventions today seem to be a normal part of life although in the 1950 they were farfetched. They have evolved straight out of science fiction.”
Many
people and cities are not thriving in the 21st century. Cities like Detroit are experiencing 39.2% poverty. Every industry is
becoming automated with computer software. High paying manual jobs of
the 20th century are disappearing, leaving people unemployed or
underemployed making less money. The mere mention of the word
AUTOMATION causes anger and frustration amongst those who are losing
high paying manual jobs.
Thriving
today requires SKILLS & CREDENTIALS in iSTEAM (invention,
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) to qualify
for 21st Automation career and business opportunities. Employers desire thinkers, innovators and inventors.
Evan Schwartz, in his book, Juice,
highlighted that flashes of genius world renowned inventors, such as Woody
Norris, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates exhibited are derived from their childlike
proclivity to play with the things that interest them. This connection of
invention and play has been documented in research and many books.
THRIVING Cartoon
an original series
Episode #1Unemployment is high, but why?
Episode #2All the Good Jobs are Gone
Episode #3Passion & Play
Episode #4Have a Play, Tinker or Inventive ...
Inventors are not born, but rather groomed.
Ida Byrd-Hill, creator Fluke - the wealth building game of accidental inventions
iSTEAM
(invention,
Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) is the core of the 21st century as AUTOMATION is making our world more efficient. Everything from entrepreneurship, job creation, economic growth of
neighborhoods and competition amongst cities for residents evolves around iSTEAM.
Uplift,
Inc. is the bridge between corporate America, Education and the Community to ensure residents have the skills necessary to thrive.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay,
Inventor of the Laptop, 1968
Uplift, Inc. is guided by this Plato quote, “A man must practice that thing from early childhood, in play ... ”
Our mission is to reinvent cities with invention-based tech-connected neighborhoods to increase the economic mobility of low-income residents by preparing parents and their children for IT Professional Trade, aka NEW COLLAR jobs and/ or startups with their newfound technology skills.
Parents control the growth of current and future generations, simultaneously. We educate parents to change the economic trajectory of both parent and child.
Change the Parent/ Family Leader,
Change the Children,
Change the Neighborhood,
Change the School
Change the World.
Uplift, Inc. is a nonprofit tech diversity and inclusion firm that analyzes interdisciplinary connections to invent solutions to cure social issues connected to poverty, workforce development and job creation. Uplift, Inc. operates programs to expose and include diverse family leaders to the digital professions opening the door to two generations of talent, simultaneously, in an effort to reduce the ‘Digital Talent Shortage’.
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