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With the dawn of the new millennium, an evolved era of
globally connected business has been ushered in. An era
that has seen the birth of crowd funding, co-work spaces,
peer lending and now an unconventional developmental
resource servicing underserved youth.
Silver Spoon Foundation can best be described as an
essential tool in the leveling of the field efforts for
underserved college and secondary school students
seeking premium access to career catalyst development.
Derived from a witty spin on the classic idiom…”to be
born with a Silver Spoon in one’s mouth,” meaning to be
born into wealth and privilege. Silver Spoon Foundation
exist to provide career identification, navigation and
preparation access, tools and steering for young and
emerging professionals not born into wealth and privilege,
however, are every bit as capable and committed to their
career success as their peers of more affluent backgrounds.
Silver Spoon Foundation is a dynamic 501(c)(3) charitable
system anchored in an unparalleled ability to engage/
connect with youth culture and develop innovative and
palatable programming. Our programming supports
and supplements non-profit partners, universities and
community centers with student pipelines.
Silver Spoon Foundation believes that there is much
hope in the globally connected, technology enabled,
socially aware and otherwise uninhibited minds of
today’s diverse emerging professionals. It is with this
hope that we set forth on an ambitious mission to meet
their focused and committed efforts with a system of
vanguard programming, disruptive issue awareness and
engagement that more closely puts them to their goals
and dreams where the startling opportunity gap may have
otherwise prevented.
OUR STORY OUR MANDATE
SELF MADE
PEER SUPPORTEDQUINTON COPLES
Defensive End, New York Jets
Silver Spoon Foundation Ambassador

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• On time graduation decrease
• First Generation Attendee retention and graduation
• Recent College Graduate Underemployment
• Recent College Graduate Unemployment
• Rising student loan debt accrued
• Career interest misalignment
• College Prep Tracking
• Minority Male Retention
• Soft Skill Development
• Career Sculpting
• Social/Emotional Development
ISSUES ADDRESSED CORE PROGRAMS
Post Secondary
Our anchor and longest running program, “Successful
Transitions” is our scholarship program targeted towards
underserved college students with a minimum of 30
college credits and a declared major. The scholarships
mission is to close the opportunity gap that exist for
emerging professionals in the form of limited professional
network, professional exposure and lack of recruitment
opportunities from top corporations. The scholarship
award alleviates all cost prohibitive measures associated
with attending industry conferences.
Successful Transitions
Secondary
An innovative and business trend relevant program that
partners with non-profit organizations and Universities
to provide succinct educational opportunities around the
savvy use of the leading professional network, LinkedIn.
The LinkUP program aims to improve first impressions
amongst emerging professionals, heightened entry level
competitiveness and enhanced research skills for students
as they embark on and build their career relationships.
LinkUP is available to all students enrolled in a 4-year
University, Community College or Trade School.
LinkUP
Our signature mentor pairing program that is fueled
by our proprietary matching tool. Major Leagues aims
to close the gap in disparity with mentor opportunities
available to minority males/females and the unique
conditions related to cultural assimilation and workplace
adaptability. Available to enrolled undergraduate
minority male and female students with a minimum of 15
college credit hours.
Major Leagues
Seniors in…Seniors Out is our support and guidance
program exclusively available to High School Seniors and
College Seniors. Rooted in aligning structural support
around the unique circumstances and conditions that
lend to anxiety, stress and uninformed decision making of
nearing graduates of both high school & college, the SISO
program positively positions students for a successful
transition into their next phase. Successful transitions
into the next chapter for graduating high school students
and college students helps alleviate highly avoidable
and quite costly decisions that impact debt accrual and
lifetime earning.
Seniors In...Seniors Out (SISO)

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SUCCESSFUL TRANSITIONS
Our anchor and longest running program, “Successful
Transitions” is our scholarship program targeted towards
underserved college students with a minimum of 30
college credits and a declared major. The scholarships
mission is to close the opportunity gap that exist for
emerging professionals in the form of limited professional
network, professional exposure and lack of recruitment
opportunities from top corporations. The scholarship
award alleviates all cost prohibitive measures associated
with attending industry conferences.
Industry conference attendance based program
that provides scholarships to Sophomore level and
upperclassmen college students with at least 30 college
credit hours and a declared major.
Scholarship covers transportation, lodging and
registration fees to professional conferences. Attending
these conferences empower students significantly by:
1. Providing access to best practices and innovations
shaping their industry of study as informed by
industry influencers.
2. Establishing and strengthening their professional
network while student attendees are still in school.
3. Getting students in front of hiring managers to
optimize industry related job procurement and career
positioning.
Scholarships are strategically allocated to providing
services for disenfranchised students from varied
backgrounds.
Student: Kavita Bahadur
Age: 22
University: New York University
Focus: Technology
Graduation Date: May 2015
Scholarships are strategically allocated
to providing services for disenfranchised
students from varied backgrounds.
MORE THAN
ANYTHING ELSE IT
IS OUR DECISIONS,
NOT THE CONDITION
OF OUR LIVES, THAT
DETERMINE OUR
DESTINY. -TONY ROBBINS
SUCCESSFUL TRANSITION SCHOLAR
1STGENERATIONCOLLEGE
BLACK/ LATINO MALES
GENERAL (NON
STEM)
MIN
IORITIES IN STEM
WOMENATTENDINGCOMMUNITYCOLLEGE
ALLOCATION
BREAKDOWN
U.S. CITIZEN
OR LEGAL PERMENANT RESIDENT WITH A VALID PERMENANT RESIDENT
CARD OR PASSPORT STAMPED 1-551
COMPLETED SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
INCLUSIVE OF RECOMMENDATION LETTER(S) AND ESSAYS
30+ HOURS CREDIT HOURS
AT A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY
ENROLLED IN POST SECONDARY INSTITUTION
2 OR 4 YEAR COLLEGE, TECHNICAL, VOCATIONAL, GRADUATE OR
ADVANCED SCHOOL
2.5 OR HIGHER CUMULATIVE GPA
2.5 GPA MINIMUM REQUIREMENT
CORE CREDENTIALS
20%

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LINKUP
Silver Spoon Foundation continued its close support
and growing partnership with Sponsors for Educational
Opportunity (SEO) this June. The partnership leverages
the resources and passions of both organizations
for empowering and developing low-income college
students. SEO’s Summer Institute strengthens student’s
career skills and exposes them to professionals across
various industries and trades. Both SEO and Silver Spoon
Foundation assist students with successful transitions
into their careers and also in leveling the playing field for
access to career sculpting networks.
In an effort to build heightened competency with the
world’s largest professional network, LinkedIn, Silver
Spoon Foundation sponsored their signature “LinkUP”
program with SEO’s Summer Institute. As Silver Spoon
Foundation closes in on 1,000 students served thru its
“LinkUP” program (that’s 2 jumbo commercial jets worth
of LinkedIn savvy and workplace ready diverse emerging
professionals) on an ambitious march towards 10K
students served by the end of calendar year 2016. This
particular event was even more exciting with it being the
brands largest student activation of “LinkUP” to date with
102 students on this occasion alone.
LinkUP is a cutting edge signature program started
by Silver Spoon Foundation in the Spring/Summer of
2014. LinkUP gifts underserved (often first generation
and/or minority) college students with professional
headshots by recognized photographers. Additionally,
the program educated these same students on navigating
the revolutionary LinkedIn social platform and managing
their professional presence thru LinkUP’s immersive
education component, LinkedIn Advanced Skills
Education Repertoire (LASER).
The recent initiative with SEO was fortunate to have the
support and expertise of Brian Araujo, an employee of
LinkedIn corporation, which by way of their “LinkedIn
For Good” program graciously volunteered to educate
the audience of “SEO Summer Institute” students on
the savvy and skillful use of LinkedIn as best utilized by
college students.
With a mission to bring LinkedIn competency to both
access and financially challenged emerging professionals,
the “LinkUP” program is gaining fast support. As you
can see in the headshot captions, the LinkUP goal to
gift 10,000 professional head shots to emerging leaders
thru 2016 is certain to be reached, say goodbye to the
“shameless selfie”, the blank/faceless avatar, career
damaging skills/expertise content display and “cropped
out” headshots on the profile’s of young professionals.
Silver Spoon Foundation…Self Made. Peer Supported.
SUPPORTING TOMORROW’S LEADERS
In partnership with
HEADSHOTS
YEAR-TO-DATE1,200
HEADSHOTS BY
END OF 201610,000

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MAJOR LEAGUES SOCIAL SWAG
Silver Spoon Foundation understands the importance
of both professional and personal mentor support to
successful transitions. When organized successfully, the
positive career impact is immeasurable, and the personal
development shifts and uplifts communities.
Our signature mentor pairing program that is fueled
by our proprietary matching tool. Major Leagues aims
to close the gap in disparity with mentor opportunities
available to minority males/females and the unique
conditions related to cultural assimilation and workplace
adaptability.
Major Leagues filters and synergies by college major,
creatingsophisticatedpairingalgorithmsdesignedtoalign
minority college students with seasoned professionals
that unlock the proven power and success associated with
mentoring.
At a minimum, mentorship pairing is designed to run
the length of a student’s college tenure, and is available
to enrolled undergraduate minority male and female
students with a minimum of 15 college credit hours.
• Greetings
• Verbal Communication
• Written Communication
• E-mail Ettiquette
• Planning and Organization
• Developing Professionalism
• Self-Awareness
• Leadership
• Personal Impact and Confidence
• Initiative and Self-Motivation
SUPPORTING TOMORROW’S LEADERS PALATABLE ESSENTIALS
A 6-week social etiquette focused program designed for
urban residing youth of New York City in grades 7th - 11th.
Social Swag teaches essential and contemporary soft skill
development and career mapping in a palatable manner.
JOSHUA HUMBERT
Vice President of Major Gifts, National Urban League
Silver Spoon Foundation Advisory Board Member

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8. www.silverspoonfoundation.org
(615) 403-1244
tony.forte@silverspoonfoundation.org
TONY FORTE