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SOCIAL CAPITAL BUILDERS

PROGRAMS

Social Capital Smart Program

Social Capital Smart Program

The Social Capital Smart Program equips workforce, youth development, and justice organizations with tools, training, and coaching to help participants build and use their social capital for economic mobility. Through certification academies, live coaching, and practical activities, programs learn how to embed social capital into their services so participants don’t just prepare for work—they connect to it.

Social Capital Smart Career Builder

Social Capital Smart Career Builder

The Social Capital Smart Career Builder is a virtual program for adults who want to advance their careers by strengthening the connections that open doors. With self-paced lessons and teacher support, participants gain tools like social network analysis, anchoring strategies, and centrality planning to grow and maintain industry ties that lead to lasting opportunities.

Social Capital for Entrepreneurial Success

Social Capital for Entrepreneurial Success

A lack of social capital — networks of relationships with potential investors, seasoned advisors and reputable contractors — is a major reason why 90 percent of small businesses fail, according to Dun and Bradstreet, the business data research firm. The SCES Academy is a one-of-a-kind program designed to help entrepreneurs seeking to start-up or scale up their businesses. SCES trains and supports entrepreneurs, over a six-month period, in leveraging social capital to grow their connections, reach, and profit margins. Experts in marketing, sales, contract procurement, law, accounting, business development, hiring, and financing serve as Opportunity Guides to SCES entrepreneurs.
Register for the June 12 SCES Session here.

Change Hub Central to Social Capital Smart Parent

Change Hub Central to Social Capital Smart Parent

The Social Capital Smart Parent program empowers families to pass on social capital—the greatest inheritance a child can receive. Through activities, coaching, and tools, parents learn to map hidden assets, introduce their children to key connections, and model how to build ties with people and institutions that open doors to opportunity.

Social Capital Smart Rising Star

Social Capital Smart Rising Star

The Social Capital Smart Rising Star program helps youth unlock the hidden job market by teaching how opportunities flow through connections. With engaging videos, challenges, and coaching, youth learn to identify mentors, stay connected to employers, and turn short-term jobs or internships into long-term growth.

Hub Central

Hub Central

Social capital is a critical asset in the effort to curb violence and promote economic opportunities in cities access the U.S. In partnership with the Academy for Transformational Change, SCB trains violence prevention workers/credible messengers and their managers on the importance of social capital and assists them in developing it with a wide range of stakeholders inside and outside of their communities.

Special Projects

Special Projects

In partnership with Health Tech Alley and a small grant funded by Howard County’s Youth Engagement Programming (YEP) initiative, Social Capital Builders will provide 25 Howard County youth ages 17-21 with social capital literacy training and coaching for 18 months.

This program aims to increase Howard County youth’s connection to industry stakeholders who can support their career development efforts.

For more information on the program, or to support its expansion, please email info@socialcapitalbuilders.com

Social Capital Cash Club

Social Capital Cash Club

The most successful community organizations know that no amount of resources can match the power of authentic youth engagement – and they know that an asset-based approach Serves youth and their communities best. The Social Capital Cash Club was founded by SCB interns in 2021 who wanted to use the power of youth involvement, positive peer pressure, and youth involvement to educate their peers and industry stakeholders about the importance of social capital and provide strategies for its growth.