We still refer to Make Possible as being in beta form. We're still making upgrades to the platform. Essentially we have over 800 members on the platform ranging from high school students all the way up to CEOs, and not just in Canada; we have a few international members as well.
With the platform, we hope to create a very open and supportive collaboration space in which people can trade skills. We really found that people didn't want to set up a super-formal mentorship like, “I'm your mentor, and you're my mentee, and you're committed.” They didn't want that. They wanted to be able to find people who would help them foster the skills they were trying to build. We ended up basing our structure around this and allowing people to share skills by finding people with those skills or offering to share skills.
This also removed a barrier that we often see, which is that people of a certain age or skills ability think that they can't be mentored and they can only be mentors, that they can only teach; they can't learn. Social media or optimizing your website are things that some of the older generation were looking to learn, but often there wasn't a venue for them. We found that our platform was a good way to connect people based on skills and take out some of those other biases, like age or level of education, so people could connect and support each other.
The platform also really focuses on visibility, providing those role models. If you're looking for a woman in STEM or a man who's supportive—we do have a lot of men on there as well—then you know they're there, and they're available to talk. They want to talk. I've had countless coffees just chatting with people through the platform. Really it's focused on making connections and building skills.