We totally understand your concern here. You’ve likely tried programs that haven’t worked in the past or haven’t gotten the buy-in you wanted. But we would be happy to share a case study with you that shows how an organization similar to yours was able to triple their impact and increase funding by using our solution while reducing staff burnout and student engagement. If you'd like to see a custom case study, please Contact Us.

Our programs are designed for college and high school students ages 14+, although they have been used with mature middle school students.

These courses meet students where they are now, which is why they've been used successfully with both college and high school students.

Most programs teach static content based on what they think you need to know.

220 Programs focus on success strategies and frameworks that apply to any discipline. Students provide the content based on their unique strengths, talents and passions.

This allows students to create a personalized plan for success that unlocks motivation helps them reach their full potential.

We've been researching, testing and refining this content since 2009.

We've used our own personal research and testing, refined that based on what doesn't work, and enhanced it by adapting expert strategies and examples used by top performers.

We design all of our programs using the following questions:

• What do we wish we would have learned in school?
• What are critical skills students still aren't learning?
• What are the skills you actually need to be successful?
• What are the common patterns, strategies and routines of the top performers in the world- regardless of industry?
• How can we make this learning practical and immediately applicable to our students?

220 stands for second (2) to (2) none (0).

Our goal with all of our programs is to help every single student create their 220 Life- the life that for them is second to none.

220 Programs have been tested with students from affluent schools, urban afterschool programs and rural community organizations.

Because we (a) meet students where they are and (b) teach them based on their potential- not where they come from- the programs have worked for over 4,000 students and over 100 organizations.

The worksheets and workbooks are the most important part of each program because they help students personalize these concepts and apply them to their own lives.

The good news is that these worksheets are printable!

As long as students can print (or even if you have to print these worksheets and mail them to students), they can participate in these programs.

While 220 Programs are strategically aligned with the 21st Century Community Learning Center Grants, our programs work for organizations in any of the following categories:

• STEM/STEAM
• Sport-Based Youth Development
• Entrepreneurship Programs
• Charter Schools
• Innovation Schools/Grants
• Faith-Based Organizations
• Museums and Cultural Institutions
• Catholic Schools
• Private Schools
• Public Schools
• Rural Community Initiatives
• Community Based Organizations/Youth Development Groups
• Fraternities and Sororities
• College Leadership Groups
• WIOA Programs
• Youth Employment Services (Y.E.S.)
• Workforce Development Initiatives
• Alumni Engagement Initiatives

Of course we back everything up with a guarantee. Meaning if we don’t deliver on our promises, you don’t pay a dime.

On the surface, it may seem that way, but let’s talk about some of the reasons our product has a higher price point. We actually offer several valuable features that our competitors don’t and will actually help you earn revenue. Not only do we have the online programming you need to make life easier on your students and staff, but we have reporting tools that will make your data evaluation more efficient. We also include grant application templates that will give you the ability to copy+paste language for your grant narratives so you don’t have to put in nearly the same amount of time to acquire new funding streams. Lastly, we’re always making additions to the courses on our platform so you won’t have to worry about investing in a different program down the road, we will always be developing content on the cutting edge of what’s needed in youth development.

We totally understand! In order to make your decision as easy as possible, I’m going to go ahead and send you a one-sheet that highlights some of the specific benefits of our product for you to forward to your Board. We’re also going to share a document with you that clearly outlines all of our technical specs, so you can make sure that you and your Program Manager are on the same page. We’d also be glad to arrange a demo for them in case they have any further questions.

The last thing we want to do is add one more thing to your plate. We understand how busy you are, especially given the times we’re in right now. And that’s why we’re confident that the time invested in the near-term will make everything easier and more efficient after the initial ramp up period. Your staff will have everything they need to implement high quality programs with no prep time. Students will have access to flexible programming. And you will have plug and play tools to expand your funding.

Yes, each student will get their own unique account with a username (their email address) and their password. Once a membership is purchased, instructors enroll their students using the provided Enrollment sheet. Each student will receive an email with their username and password. They use this information to login at 220leadership.com/login where they will be able to access the courses.

The Leadership Track: Most individuals never reach their potential because our one-size-fits-all education fails to develop their purpose. This course helps participants unlock motivation by creating a limitless 10-year vision and connecting that future to their current goals, behavior, and schedule. This asynchronous student-facing online course includes 9 modules, videos, articles, workbook, and challenges. The Leadership Course helps individuals set their vision and then determine the behaviors they need to engage in to turn their vision into reality. This typically includes organizing and executing a job search, as well as obtaining a certification, credential, or degree. The course supports participants with the smaller steps necessary to complete a successful job search, earn a certification or credential, or complete an educational achievement. This unique course is designed to be specific to individuals’ career pathway needs.

The Professional Track:  Most resumes look bad and undersell that person’s value. Participants get a step-by-step tutorial with templates and examples on how to create a professional resume that stands out to employers and schools. Participants also take the next step in starting to build a network with professionals in their desired industry. This asynchronous student-facing online course includes 6 modules, videos, articles, and resume templates. Most individuals are terrified of the interview room because they don’t know what to expect. Participants learn how to prepare and dominate the predictable structure of 99% of interviews with expected questions, answer scripts, and practical worksheets. Participants also learn how to make their social media accounts professional in a way that elevates their personal brand. This asynchronous student-facing online course includes 6 modules, articles, workbook, and practice questions. 

The Personal Finance Track: Most people never learn how to manage their personal finances. This practical course will empower individuals to create their own personal budget and learn how to take control of their financial future. This asynchronous student-facing online course includes 10 modules, videos, articles, and a personal budget spreadsheet template.

The Entrepreneurship Track: Most jobs in the 21st Century will require successful employees to be creative, self-led, and entrepreneurial. This course teaches individuals how to create a conceptual startup by creating a modern business plan using The 220 Launch Canvas, understand and apply the 6 cornerstones of successful companies, and improve Teamwork and Leadership skills through the process.

220 Programs have been tested over years with students from suburban areas, urban afterschool programs and rural community organizations. Because we (a) meet students where they are and (b) teach them based on their potential- not where they come from- the programs have worked for over 5,000 students and over 200 organizations.
We've been researching, testing and refining this content since 2009.

We've used our own personal research and testing, refined that based on what doesn't work, and enhanced it by adapting expert strategies and examples used by top performers.

We design all of our programs using the following questions:

• What do we wish we would have learned in school?
• What are critical skills students still aren't learning?
• What are the skills you actually need to be successful?
• What are the common patterns, strategies and routines of the top performers in the world- regardless of industry?
• How can we make this learning practical and immediately applicable to our students?"

Our programs are designed for high school students ages 14+, although they have been used with mature middle school students.

Each learning track includes the resources you’ll need to implement an effective program:

1. Course Workbooks
2. Articles, videos and images
3. Instructional videos to fill out course workbooks
4. 220 Challenges to apply learning in the real world
5. Content retention quizzes
6. Recommended resources
7. Community discussion feature
8. Online Portal for all Resources
9. Lesson Plans
10. Student Worksheets
11. Slide Decks
12. Assessments + Evaluation Tools
13. Mobile app accessibility

Working with us and using our courses is not the cheapest solution on the market. But, if you use the components of our programs you'll not only see the transformational impact on your students/staff, but you'll see the ROI for your organization. Most 220 partners access new funding streams based on the nature of our programs and the funding they're able to win based on the program outcomes and technology. Our customer is someone who is interested in building something new and on the cutting edge of education.

You'll receive instant access to the platform. We recommend completing the Onboarding Course within one week at which point you'll be ready to start working through 220 with your students.

We ensure your students are progressing through the required course material in 3 ways:

1. Course quizzes that are prerequisites before they can move on to the next lesson.
2. Course workbooks and templates to ensure students are relating the course material back to their own situation, life and future.
3. Progress Reports to monitor how much of each course your students have completed."

220 stands for second (2) to (2) none (0). Our goal with all of our programs is to help every single student create their 220 Life- the life that for them is second to none.

The worksheets and workbooks are the most important part of each program because they help students personalize these concepts and apply them to their own lives. The good news is that these worksheets are printable! As long as students can print (or even if you have to print these worksheets and mail them to students), they can participate in these programs.

Most programs teach static content based on what they think you need to know. Poor results.

Not one-size-fits all: 220 Programs focus on success strategies and frameworks that apply to any discipline. Students provide the content based on their unique strengths, talents and passions. This allows students to create a personalized plan for success that unlocks motivation helps them reach their full potential.

Authentic and non-academic: Any content we develop and teach has been tested and proven by both of us, and then backed by research on other top performers in a wide variety of industries. We hear from customers that this comes through in our passion, makes us very relatable to their students and as a result, increases engagement and effectiveness. i.e. When students take our entrepreneurship course, they’re learning from people who run their own company.

Practical: We also make sure our content is extremely actionable, so that students understand concepts, but always know how to apply it to their life and the first steps they need to take to get started. These are two factors we felt were missing from our education and most leadership programs we participated in growing up.

Yes, credit card payments are preferred. (Set up fees are waived with credit card payments)

Yes, we can provide an invoice that has mobile payments available. We can also provide MOUs, W9s, agreements, or additional paperwork you need for your organization's vendor contracts.

We provide seven layers of support for your organization throughout our work together:

1. The 220 Onboarding Course- this course has everything you and your staff need to get onboarded. We go through the platform and all program components, including student enrollment and all key links.
2. Weekly Office Hours- every week, you and your staff will have access to our office hours. During office hours, you can ask our founders questions about the programs, anything specific to your program, or how you're looking to make the most out of a specific module for your students. This time is open for our partners to get the customized help they need to use 220 effectively.
3. Post-Purchase Emails and Checkins- You will receive regular updates from our team to make sure you're up to date in the course.
4. Professional Development Webinars
5. Student Webinars
6. Parent Info
7. Instructor Guidebooks

*You can also reach out anytime to get questions answered via email.

220 collects data from its users for the sole purpose of facilitating the program and will not be sold or repurposed in any way. Access controls, data encryption, and other data protection controls are managed by our hosting platform, Kajabi. Additional information on 220 Youth Leadership's Privacy Policy can be found here.

Many organizations across the country have used our programs to support or exclusively provide SEL for their programs and students. Instead of students experiencing these skills through a ""Self-Awareness"" module, students learn by doing, and build these capacities by pursuing goals based on choice- their choice. This results in natural motivation, increased persistence and higher likelihood of goal achievement and incidental skill-building.

1. Self-Management and Self-Awareness: The Leadership Course challenges students to look inward and examine their emotions, thoughts, values and behaviors like never before. Students identify their natural interests, existing passions, unique strengths and strong beliefs; how these things impact their thoughts, actions and relationships, and how they can leverage these things to develop their purpose and create an extraordinary life. Then, our additional courses provide the frameworks and tools to help them achieve their ultimate professional, financial and relationship goals- whether that's through working at their dream company or becoming a freelancer or entrepreneur. Students learn how to set audacious, measurable goals; how to break those goals down into smaller, actionable steps; and build the support team they need to start working towards that extraordinary life.
2. Social Awareness and Relationship Skills: Our courses help students set life-altering goals that guide their thoughts, actions, values and relationships. These goals provide a meaningful reason for students to choose optimism, positive relationships, healthy behavior and mutually beneficial relationships; not destructive behavior or negative choices. Students demonstrate leadership through leading by example (building skills and accomplishing goals); develop empathy by asking, answering and listening to deep, personal goals, beliefs and experiences; and working in teams to accomplish exciting projects that will benefit their peers and their community.Responsible Decision-Making: Their life-altering vision from The Leadership Course provides the foundation for their decision-making. By having a higher purpose, students are incentivized to make positive near-term decisions that benefit themselves and others so they stay on track towards their long-term goals. Our courses challenge students with limited structure and student-driven content so they learn to evaluate the quality, diversity and ambiguity of information before making decisions. They also learn to make decisions faster so they get more comfortable with failure and being wrong, which gives them the ability to course-correct and get to the ultimate goal faster."

We wanted to create a for-profit business to have the ultimate impact for our partners, students, and communities. While the nature of our work is typically seen as "non-profit work" we didn't want to rely on grant funding to do the work we knew was necessary to shift the future of education. Our business model allows us to grow our programs and reach through the needs we identify in the marketplace while allowing us to give back financially to programs and students who need it most. 220 donates 2.20% of net profits each year to support WagiLabs programs and students. WagiLabs is an organization that uses its 100% free and open-source curriculum to teach entrepreneurship to young students across the world. WagiLabs helps students unlock curiosity, compassion, and courage to come up with ideas that “do good” to help people, animals, and the environment. Click here to learn more about WagiLabs.

220 Programs have the greatest impact when the students who are using the platform have a deep passion/interest. If students are deeply interested in STEM (or sports, fashion, music, video games, art, etc.) we are able to tap into their intrinsic motivation and help them put that energy into productive activities. We love working with our STEM partners because it provides foundational hard skill development that we complement with our programs that focus on the wrap around skills like personal development, leadership, and professional communication.

Each year, we do a select number of custom webinars for our customers. We are unable to do custom webinars for groups who do not already have a 220 membership. Keynote speeches are done on a case by case basis. Our keynote fee starts at $10k. Please reach out to Jenni Robbins for keynote speech inquiries.

We get this question a lot, and we love answering it. We work with a lot of at-risk, low-income and first-generation students. We don't treat them any differently. Conventional practices say we need to adjust the way we talk to and work with these students because of what they're experiencing or what they've been through. While trauma-informed practices are absolutely helpful, what we NEVER should do is make them feel like they are different and less capable than other students. Maybe they're starting a lot further behind. Maybe they're going through incredible obstacles. But that should never diminish their potential and we need to help them realize this. The equalizers for all students of all races, backgrounds and personalities are these:

1. Every student has the right and opportunity to pursue a meaningful and exciting life
2. Every student starts from somewhere, and every student has goals they want to achieve (whether they realize it yet or not).
3. Every student faces obstacles.
4. Every student has unique gifts, talents and passions.
5. Every student can be intrinsically motivated to use these gifts, talents and passions if we help them unlock an exciting future.

It is our job to help them uncover what a compelling future means to them, then help them work backwards to connect this future to your program, their school and their near-term goals. Starting points are starting points. Obstacles are obstacles. But these should never impact the audacity or excitement of their goals and what we can do to help them get there.

We have worked with organizations from across the country. Most of our partners are progressive educational organizations. We've worked with charter schools, public schools, private schools, religious-based organizations, Greek organizations, out-of school time groups (ex. YMCAs, YWCAs, Boys & Girls Clubs), STEM-focused organizations, Sports-Based Youth Development Groups, and large-scale initiatives (ex. City-, State- and National-focused youth initiatives)

At this time, we are not offering programs to individual families. Please Contact Us to sign up for our waiting list if you'd like to be notified when we have programs available for individual students and families.