Year Up

Year Up
Founded 2000
Founder Gerald Chertavian
Type Nonprofit organization
Focus Close the Opportunity Divide
Location
Revenue
 $51 million (2012)
Slogan Empowering urban talent to reach their potential.
Website http://www.yearup.org

Year Up is a nonprofit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts. Year Up was founded in 2000 by Bowdoin College and Harvard Business School graduate Gerald Chertavian, and currently has sites in Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, New York, Providence, Puget Sound (Seattle), and Washington, D.C..

Mission

Year Up's mission is to close the Opportunity Divide by providing urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and higher education.

How it works

Year Up's intensive one-year program provides high school graduates and GED recipients between the ages of 18-24 with a combination of hands-on skill development and corporate internship opportunities.

Year Up's high-expectation, high-support program combines marketable job skills, stipends, paid internships, and up to 18 earned college credits while being dually enrolled with a community college at some sites. It addresses students' social and emotional development and provides the appropriate support to place these young adults on a viable path to economic self-sufficiency.

During the first six months of the program (21 weeks), students attend classes at Year Up, learning technical and professional skills that prepare them for success in a corporate environment. During the second six months (26 weeks), Year Up students gain experience in internships at leading companies around the country.

After graduation, Year Up students continue to receive support and build their professional networks through Year Up's Alumni Association.

Year Up currently serves more than 1,300 students per year nationwide.

Classes taught and skills learned

Partial list of technical skills classes:

Partial list of Financial Operations skills classes;

Partial list of professional and business skills classes:

Support systems

Year Up surrounds its students with resources to support them during and after the program, assisting them in their transitions to careers and higher education.

Achieving results

The impact that Year Up has made on the students and communities it serves has been measured:

Recognition

Year Up has been the recipient of awards:

Further information

Related links

References

  1. ↑ Forbes.com. . June 24, 2008.