• The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation
    $1,000,000 through July, 2024

    to support the design of an employer engagement strategy to ensure restaurants can hire, retain and advance opportunity youth in the restaurant and food service industry

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2022
  • The Forum for Youth Investment
    $1,800,000 through August, 2025

    to build the capacity of the opportunity youth field to create a transformational vision to reconnect opportunity youth

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2022
  • Childrens Bureau of New Orleans
    $1,625,000 through December, 2025

    to implement a new peer-to-peer healthcare career pathway for opportunity youth in New Orleans that will increase access to mental health services

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2022
  • A Better Balance
    $650,000 through August, 2024

    to support on-going efforts to advance policies supportive to workers, such as paid sick time and paid family and medical leave, especially in Louisiana

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2022
  • Disability Rights Louisiana
    $65,000 through August, 2023

    to support financial literacy and inclusion for formerly incarcerated opportunity youth with disabilities in New Orleans

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2022
  • Youth Empowerment Project
    $240,000 through August, 2024

    to support workforce training for opportunity youth in New Orleans and organizational advocacy capacity

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2022
  • CAP Youth Empowerment Institute - Kenya
    $1,010,000 through July, 2024

    to support a new job training program in Mombasa

    Opportunity Youth Africa Awarded: July, 2022
  • Lede New Orleans Inc.
    $250,000 through September, 2023

    for Lede New Orleans Inc., a project of Foundation for Louisiana, to train opportunity youth to cover issues that affect them and change harmful narratives

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: June, 2022
  • Jobs for the Future Inc.
    $2,570,000 through June, 2025

    to support the High Roads Training Fund, a public-private partnership that supports the creation of High Roads Training Partnerships as a strategy to tie worker training to job quality

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: May, 2022
  • REDF
    $300,000 through May, 2025

    to better integrate employment within efforts to end homelessness by offering employment in social enterprises and complementary supports in Los Angeles County to over 700 individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness and opportunity youth

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: May, 2022