The Collective Blueprint
Sarah Lockridge-Steckel, CEO and Co-Founder
EERI

The Collective Blueprint’s mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.
Year Founded: 2016
The Collective Blueprint’s vision is every young adult has the power to live their best life and the tools to make that a reality. To be successful, they partner with young adults to:
- Create new pathways to opportunity. The Collective Blueprint facilitate entry into in-demand careers via school-readiness training, ongoing coaching, internships, employment support, and life-long access to a well-connected network.
- Fix broken systems. Adult education is broken and corporations struggle to find the right people. The Collective Blueprint partners with institutions to fix the roadblocks that fuel turnover and low educational attainment and implement business solutions to meet the needs of employers.
- Mobilize young adults. Our system is set up for young adults to fail, but we can change that by supporting young adults in telling their stories and advocating for political and social change.
What do young adults in Memphis need to live their best lives? The Collective Blueprint began in 2016 with this simple question. Since then, The Collective Blueprint has supported hundreds of young adults in gaining valuable workforce skills and partnered with dozens of companies and organizations to create sustainable change in Memphis and in the county.

Sarah Lockridge-Steckel
CEO and Co-Founder