DREAMWAKERS

Goal 1: Empower educators in under-resourced 4th-12th grade classrooms across the U.S. to facilitate live, in-class career conversations with exceptional professional role models;

Goal 2: Expose students to new cultures and professional role models beyond and within their immediate surroundings;

Goal 3: Facilitate long-term learning and engagement with new personal and professional insights after the flashchats; and

Goal 4: Enable busy professionals to virtually volunteer in underserved U.S. schools.

Our strategies for achieving our goals include:

(1) Partnering with educators in schools in which >50% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch;

(2) Connecting professionals and organizations with classrooms through a corporate partnership strategy;

(3) Tying classroom learning to real-world issues, professional careers, and practical advice and sharing online resources with teachers to enhance learning after flashchats; and

(4) Recruiting a broad network of diverse, engaging speakers.

Our unique capabilities include:

(1) Proven best practices to facilitate live, interactive conversations via video chat;

(2) A diverse network of more than 1,100 volunteer speakers representing a wide range of professions, racial , ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, and socioeconomic status;

(3) Robust pre- and post-flashchat educational resources and lesson plans; and

4) A national and ever-growing network of educators, including teachers, librarians, counselors, and more, supporting 4t- to 12th-grade students across the U.S.

Goal 1:
-Served 42,000+ students across 45 states since 2014, facilitating approximately 75,000 minutes of interactive career conversations
-95% of schools that hosted flashchats served student population in which >50% of students qualify for free- or reduced-price lunch since 2014
-Average rating of educators' experience in 2022 is 4.8 out of 5.0.

Goal 2:
In 2022:
-81% of students had not met someone from their speaker’s industry before their flashchat.
-DreamWakers connected classrooms to diverse professional role models, 44% of whom were Black (12% national average); 20% of whom were Hispanic/Latinx (16% national average); 10% of whom were Asian (5% national average); 39% of whom were a first-generation college student (30% national average); and 37% of whom were a first- or second-generation immigrant (20% national average).

Goal 3:
-89% of teachers reported that their classroom continued discussing their flashchat days after it occurred.
-56% of students reported feeling more confident engaging with a career professional after their flashchat.

Goal 4:
-100% of DreamWakers volunteer speakers in 2022 said they’d like to volunteer with DreamWakers again.
-Average rating of volunteers' experience in 2022 is 4.9 out of 5.0.