• Los Angeles Black Worker Center
    $600,000 through May, 2024

    to create a Workforce Equity Demonstration Project leading to high-quality employment for opportunity youth

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: November, 2021
  • DataKind
    $580,000 through May, 2024

    to apply data science to improve interventions and support economic mobility for Opportunity Youth in Mombasa.

    Opportunity Youth Africa Awarded: November, 2021
  • Social Science Research Council
    $250,000 through October, 2023

    to support Los Angeles and New Orleans Disconnected Youth reports.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: October, 2021
  • Bureau of Governmental Research Inc.
    $100,000 through July, 2023

    to monitor and report on the uses of American Rescue Plan Act funds in New Orleans.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: October, 2021
  • Unite-La Inc.
    $450,000 through September, 2022

    for a planning project to improve healthcare career pathways for OY and build political will for policies prioritizing OY services.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: September, 2021
  • Asset Funders Network
    $25,000 through August, 2022

    for membership in the Louisiana Asset Funders Network.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: September, 2021
  • The Troy Andrews Foundation
    $100,000 through April, 2022

    for a planning grant to develop a career pathways program for Opportunity Youth in the New Orleans' cultural economy.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: September, 2021
  • Tales of the Cocktail Foundation Inc.
    $200,000 through November, 2022

    to support two projects: 1) an apprenticeship program for high-end bartenders and 2) policy work focused on bar and restaurant workers.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: September, 2021
  • Funders Together to End Homelessness, Inc.
    $50,000 through September, 2022

    to support the Workforce Matters Funders Group.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: September, 2021
  • PolicyLink
    $1,000,000 through August, 2023

    to provide continued support for the New Orleans fellow, continued support of corporate racial equity work encouraging inclusion of OY, and support for workforce and economic data and research.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2021