The Opportunity Navigation System™
Building the Connections That Create Opportunity.
Social Capital Builders helps organizations, businesses, and individuals build, measure, and maintain the connections that drive career success, business growth, and economic mobility through the Opportunity Navigation System™.
The System
Meet the Opportunity Navigation System™
The world's first comprehensive system designed to build, measure, and maintain the connections that create opportunity.
Healthcare has medical records.
Finance has accounting systems.
Sales has CRM platforms.
Opportunity Navigation gives organizations a system for measuring and strengthening the connections that drive opportunity.
In Their Words
Opportunity Doesn't Just Depend on What You Know.
It Depends on Who Knows You.
"Navigating from high school to college, and now law school, has been about more than earning good grades—it has been about building the right connections. School taught me what I needed to know. Social Capital Builders taught me who I needed to know.
Using the Opportunity Navigation System, I learned how to identify opportunities, build meaningful connections, and stay connected to the people guiding my journey. Those connections led to internships, including an internship with a federal judge, and have opened doors that continue to shape my legal career.
The Opportunity Navigation System didn't just help me build connections—it helped me navigate my future."
"Completing the Opportunity Navigation System made me realize I didn't have as many strong connections as I thought. It helped me see that building my social capital is essential to increasing my opportunities."
"I always thought we had a strong network until I completed the Centrality Quotient. It showed me we were relying on the same few connections for hiring, referrals, and business opportunities. The Opportunity Navigation System helped us identify where our network lacked diversity and gave us a plan to intentionally build new connections that continue to bring value to our business."
"The American Academy of Dermatology's Pathways Initiative supports students from high school through medical school by providing exposure, mentorship, and the skills needed to overcome barriers to entering—and succeeding in—the field of dermatology. For the past three years, Social Capital Builders and the Opportunity Navigation System™ have been an integral part of that journey. Helping young professionals understand the importance of professional connections—and giving them the tools to intentionally build, measure, and strengthen those connections—is an essential part of preparing the next generation of dermatologists."
Why Connections Matter
of opportunities are influenced by connections.
of participants cannot identify enough career-supporting connections.
of small business owners don't have a system to ensure staff build, measure, and maintain the connections that can drive business success.
Opportunity Navigation changes that.
The Process
How the Opportunity Navigation System™ Works
Who We Serve
Built for everyone who depends on connection.
Businesses
Businesses measure sales, marketing, and operations. We help them build, measure, and maintain the strategic connections that drive new business, talent, partnerships, and growth opportunities.
Learn moreOrganizations
The Opportunity Navigation System™ gives organizations a practical way to measure and strengthen the connections that drive opportunity, career success, and economic mobility.
Learn moreIndividuals
Schools teach people what they need to know. We help them build, measure, and maintain the connections that open doors to careers, business, and lifelong opportunities.
Learn moreGet Started
Schedule a Demo
See how the Opportunity Navigation System™ helps you build, measure, and maintain the connections that create opportunity.
- Map the connections that drive your outcomes
- Measure your network with the Centrality Quotient
- Build an intentional plan to strengthen it
ECONOMIC MOBILITY AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING
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YOUR ORGANIZATION'S SOCIAL CAPITAL COMPETENCE BEGINS HERE
Our Partners
THE SOCIAL CAPITAL SMART STAFF CERTIFICATION FELLOWSHIP
Beginning May 27
Initial Certification Sessions:
May 27, June 3, and June 10 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM EST
Fellowship Format: Live virtual sessions
Maryland Innovation Center, Columbia, MD
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The Social Capital Smart Staff Certification Fellowship is designed to help your team better support participants in building, measuring, and maintaining the connections that lead to jobs, training, advancement, and long term success.
This is more than a training. It is a four month fellowship experience that begins with a three session virtual certification and continues with monthly Fellowship Implementation Sessions that help staff move from learning to practice.
Through the fellowship, your staff will gain practical tools, structured support, and a clear framework for helping participants turn social capital into stronger outcomes, including:
More youth placed in jobs and training
Increased engagement and retention
Stronger program visibility and participant follow through
Better connection building with employers, industry professionals, and community stakeholders
Improved long term opportunity and economic mobility outcome.
THE SOCIAL CAPITAL SMART VIRTUAL CERTIFICATION ACADEMY
Join This Unique Community of Youth Development Specialists, Credible Messengers, Employment Readiness Instructors, and Managers for a Powerful Two Day Academy.
October 22 from 1:00 - 5:00 EST
Maryland Innovation Center, Columbia, MD
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- More youth placed in jobs and training
- Increased engagement and retention
- Stronger recruitment and program visibility
What They’re Saying
Across the U.S., managers rave about the impact of Social Capital Builders
Opportunity Navigation System
A practical system for helping youth and adults build, strengthen, and sustain the connections that shape opportunity, employment, and long term mobility. The Opportunity Navigation System helps organizations understand where access is strong, where it is weak, and how to turn connection building into a more visible, measurable part of participant success. It is built to improve the quality, consistency, and impact of participant connections through guided support, clear data, and a structured process.
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Social Capital Building Skills for Success in Jobs and Careers.
This online, self-paced, virtual 12-hour course is specifically designed to equip job seekers (ages 18-50) with the knowledge and skill sets to build careers and access quality employment through the power of social capital. It is built to engage individuals at their own pace through engaging videos, stories, and exercises in a convenient, engaging, easy-to-learn format. Participants can start and stop whenever they want, go back to review a point, or take the course many times over under their organizational license. SCW Social Capital Smart can be made available to any number of people — all at their own unique style and speed.
Participants will:
- Develop an efficient, effective career-building strategy that actually works?
- Unlock the power of social capital to accelerate career searches?
- Cultivate professional behaviors to connect with the right people at the right time?
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- Build lifelong connections while mitigating discrimination, bias, and racism?
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