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Jack Manning Bancroft is the Head of Design and Founder of AIME, an award-winning social movement that uses mentoring and imagination to unlock the potential of marginalised youth to create a fairer world. He is also the Founder, Executive Producer and Host of IMAGI-NATION{TV}, and a puppeteer.
AIME, founded in 2005, is an imaginative educational program and a volunteer mentoring movement - a social network for good.
IMAGI-NATION{TV}, founded in March 2020, is a weekday TV show that puts a mentor in the home for every kid, every day.
Jack, a proud Indigenous Australian from the Bundjalung nation, founded AIME in 2005 at the age of 19, with the goal of finding a solution to Indigenous inequality in Australia. Driven by imagination and audacious kindness, he re-engineered the concept of mentoring. He developed a cost-effective and scalable model that brings university students together as volunteers to mentor marginalised and minority high schools kids so that they complete high school successfully, go on to university and ultimately, into fulfilling careers.
Over the past 17 years, AIME’s mentoring tools and techniques - its Imagination Curriculum, of which Jack has been the lead designer - have helped transform schooling for thousands of marginalised kids.
Jack’s vision is to unlock the AIME Imagination Curriculum for every school in the world and train teachers to be mentors so we can achieve educational parity and beyond for marginalised kids across the Earth’s surface.
Jack has received a string of awards and recognition for his work, his philosophy, and his vision for a fairer world. He was MJ Bale’s Man of Character in 2014 and won Australia’s Happy Harold Education Award in 2013. In 2010, five years after founding AIME, he received the Australian Human Rights Medal, GQ Man of Inspiration, New South Wales Young Australian of the Year, and the University of Sydney Young Alumni of the Year awards. Most recently Jack was the youngest person in Australian history to receive an Honorary Doctorate.