business partnership deck & agreement
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Business Partnership
Praxis finds the best motivated, self-directed young people and sends them to companies like yours, where they add real, substantive value to your business.
There are young entrepreneurs out there who want to work for and learn from you.
The commitment is low-risk and high-reward at $10/hr for 10 months.
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“Our Praxis participant is an attentive, adaptive, and motivated young professional eager to create value for himself and the company. He has an eagerness to succeed that’s hard to find.”
- Christina Wells, Advantage Media Group
What is Praxis?
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The Praxis Twelve Month Experience
BootcampParticipants undergo robust professional and entrepreneurial training with Praxis Staff.
Placement with business partner
It’s all about creating value that can be demonstrated to the world, not just jumping through hoops or getting grades.
Months:
Personal Development Projects
Participants work with Praxis advisors to develop PDP in conjunction with professional goals.
30 hours / week at $10/hr
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Participants create tangible results through twelve Personal Development Projects (PDPs) – a short-term set of challenges with the goal of gaining mastery in areas of value.
Participants complete four types of PDPs throughout the program:
Create value for business partners from day one: • Learn website development
and digital marketing • Become entrepreneurial
thinkers and doers
Bootcamp
Develop hard and soft skills to excel in business partner roles: • Complete two independent
business projects • Gain transferable skills and
experiences
Professional Development
Learn to apply theoretical knowledge in the marketplace: • Develop advanced critical
thinking skills • Participate in engaging group
discussions with thought leaders
Curriculum
Complete at least one major project that demonstrates unique skill and value: • Complete a large project
from start to finish • Learn how to grow a
customer base
Portfolio Project
2 months 4 months 3 months 3 months
Experience Components
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Praxis participants enter the program with inherent characteristics:
Participants gain and demonstrate qualities to become entrepreneurs:
Self-motivation | Courage Curiosity | Talent | Passion
Eagerness | Optimism
Real-world success | Tangible value Applicable skills | Leadership
Business relationships | Experience Knowledge | Confidence
Praxis Participants Break The Mold
Profile of a Praxis Participant
Character Intelligence Skills Experience
All participants excel in these areas
Applicants are judged on four traits:
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Application submitted via
DiscoverPraxis.com
Request for resume /
writing sample
Reference check
Acceptance & placement
process begins
Rated 1-5 on: Character
Intelligence
Skills
Experience
Interview with Praxis
staff
Interview with Praxis
staff
Application Process
Rated 1-5 on: Character
Intelligence
Skills
Experience
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Portfolio Projects HopHead Chris Morbitzer
Praxis Winter 2014 Alum
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Mount Pleasant Tax Base Analysis for The I’On GroupPortfolio ProjectsClaire Morris
Praxis Winter 2014 Alum
“Praxis can find the young people that truly want to make their own path, we want to tap into that talent stream early on. Praxis participants offer a huge potential reward for an incredibly low cost/risk.”
-- Levi Morehouse, Ceterus
“Our Praxis participant effectively wove previous experience, inherent earnestness, and knowledge gained through Praxis to become an integral part of the company”
-- Vince Graham, The I’On Group Founder
“It was a pleasure to bring a Praxis participant on to our team. Showing a clear passion for learning and ability to deliver practical value to OppSource, we were happy to hire him full-time.”
-- Mark Galloway, OppSource President
What Our Partners Think
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Participant Success Story: James Walpole
Business Partner: Bitpay
Role: Marketing Now: Full-time marketing
associate at Bitpay
Fall 2014 ParticipantJames Walpole
James has a passion for learning and a strong work ethic that is hard to come by. We look forward to working with Praxis again.”
-- Julia Patterson, BitPay
James wanted to get a taste of real-world work after high school and put his work ethic to the test.
Why James joined Praxis
James put his high competency in writing to use in Bitpay’s marketing department, where he assisted with copywriting, email campaigns, graphic design, and event marketing.
What James did
James rewrote the marketing copy at bitpay.com, on Bitpay’s event marketing collateral, and put the new brochure site up on Github.
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Portfolio Project
What You Provide
$10 / hour
30 hours / week
<50% participant time spent on administrative tasks
Opportunity for at least 1 self-guided project
Opportunity to shadow President/Founder/CEO at least once
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The Praxis Business Experience
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Remote Bootcamp
Participant Apprenticeship
*Note: Many business partners offer participants full-time employment at the conclusion of the program.
Participants complete with Praxis staff
Participant arrives ready for work Participant’s last day with Praxis*
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MONTHS
Participant completes Praxis curriculum
As a Praxis business partner, I agree to the following:
• Accept the participant(s) Praxis selects for my business if suitable match • Participants to be placed at my business for 40 weeks • Participants to work ~30 hours per week (no overtime or benefits unless agreed upon) • Participant to be paid at least $10 per hour as an employee of my business • To notify Praxis if terminating the participant’s employment early for failure to abide by company
policies or perform to expectations • Participant to spend no more than 50% of working time on administrative tasks • Participant to be responsible for at least one self-directed project • Participant to shadow the founder or CEO at least once during the program
_________________________________________________ Company Name
_________________________________________________ Principal Name
_________________________________________________ ______________________ Signed
Date
Business Partner Agreement
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