2026 VentureLab Capacity Grant Partner Toolkit
Welcome! We’re thrilled to have you as a partner. This toolkit is designed to make it easy to share our partnership and showcase the impact of our work together and includes everything you need: ready-to-use copy, images, and slide decks to share with your networks.
How to Use this Toolkit
With this toolkit, you can:
- Copy and paste any of the sample posts below
- Drop our blurb into your newsletter, blog, or website
- Share program slide decks with your networks
- Use the provided visuals when you post
- Help spread the word to educators, program leaders, and youth organizations
Presentation Slide Decks
- VentureLab 101 – Introductory presentation. Use this slideshow when introducing VentureLab.
- VentureLab Spark Mentorship & Materials Program Overview – Use this slideshow for recruiting new program sites.
- VentureLab Spark Mentorship & Materials Program Overview – Use this slideshow for recruiting new program sites.
- VentureLab Idea to Pitch Deck – Use this slideshow when introducing Idea to Pitch Curriculum and program overview
Visual Assets
This toolkit folder in Canva offers a curated collection of fully customizable templates. This is a living folder and will be continually updated with new assets.
To request access to Canva Folder, email hello@venturelab.org.
The Google drive folder also contains visual assets for you to use.
Access Toolkit in Google Drive.
Key Talking Points
Review these key talking points when dealing with the media, speaking presentations and more.
- Free, high-quality resources: Access ready-to-use activities, guides, and tools for educators, parents, and youth.
- Built with educators: Designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in every learning space.
- Programs for youth empowerment: Spark Program, Idea to Pitch, and more to inspire confidence, creativity, and resilience.
- ESTEAM® approach: Integrates entrepreneurship with science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.
- Join the movement: Partner with VentureLab to inspire the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers
General Overview
VentureLab is a national nonprofit dedicated to sparking entrepreneurial mindsets in youth through fun, interactive, and hands-on learning experiences. Our VentureLab ESTEAM® approach, (Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) empowers students to build creativity, resilience, problem-solving, and collaboration skills—preparing them to thrive in school, career, and life.
VentureLab’s programs teach entrepreneurial thinking and employability skills by:
- Providing opportunities for group work, prototyping, and hands-on learning.
- Demonstrating examples of real-world challenges and inspiring female role models tackling them.
- Creating opportunities for risk-taking and confidence-building.
- Helping instructors establish a safe (and brave) space for creativity and exploration.
Spark Mentorship & Materials Program Recruitment
Bring the VentureLab Spark Mentorship and Materials Program to your community! Join (add your org here) for an action-packed youth entrepreneurship experience where students work with a mentor and a framework to grow an existing business idea and their entrepreneurial mindset. They set SMART goals, mindset goals, and take actionable steps toward bringing to market or scaling their business.
Using the VentureLab ESTEAM® approach, students build creativity, resilience, problem-solving, and collaboration skills—preparing them to thrive in school, career, and life. Let’s work together to inspire the next generation of innovators and changemakers.
Idea to Pitch
Students turn ideas into action with VentureLab’s Idea to Pitch Program! With the Idea to Pitch Program, students grow their entrepreneurial mindsets and skills as they apply their passions and strengths to identify opportunities to creatively solve problems, develop their solution into a business, and pitch the idea. Along the way, they build entrepreneurial mindsets like curiosity, adaptability, and resilience. Let’s inspire the next generation of changemakers together!
Ready, Set, Share!
Give us a follow, hit the share button, and then spread the love. From social media to free resources, we want to make it easy for you to share across social, on your website and more.
Sharing our Story
When posting to social media, please tag us and use our hashtag:
- Facebook: @theVentureLab
- Instagram: @ourventurelab
- LinkedIn: @ourventurelab
- Hashtag: #VentureLab
- Access our LinkTree
- When referencing VentureLab on your website or newsletter, hyperlink the word VentureLab to https://venturelab.org.
VentureLab’s Free Resources
- VentureLab’s FREE Resources
Whether you’re an educator, parent, or student, discover tools, activities, and guides designed to foster innovation and entrepreneurial thinking in young minds. Explore today and empower the next generation of diverse innovators and changemakers. - Join VentureLab’s Monthly Newsletter
Get a free monthly resource, youth entrepreneurial news and more.
Partner Samples
Below, you’ll find examples of how our partners have successfully integrated VentureLab into their websites and promotional materials, such as flyers and brochures.
We want to help amplify your efforts—please reach out with your ideas, suggestions, and storytelling opportunities so we can celebrate and share your impact.
Connect & Collaborate
Contribute to transformative educational initiatives! Contact VentureLab’s Director of Philanthropy, Monica Morales.
Interested in entrepreneurial education opportunities? Contact VentureLab’s Director of Education, Scott Mann.
Media Inquiries? Story to share? Contact VentureLab’s Executive Director, Desma Deitz.