Publications and Toolkits

Bank of America has teamed up with Year Up to create 20 apprenticeships for urban youth in Boston. The Bank of America/Year Up partnership creates new opportunities for urban young adults ages 18-24 who have completed high school or received a GED.

H.E. Butt Grocery Company (H-E-B) has been instrumental in supporting the development of youth by exposing them to careers in the grocery retail industry and supporting their growth and mobility within the company.

Accenture worked with others in the business and nonprofit communities to found NPower NY, a non-profit dedicated to increasing the technological capacity of the non-profit community. Accenture worked with NPowerNY to use its professional expertise and innovation to create the Technology Services Corps (TSC). TSC is an innovative program that looks at an unskilled pool of young people and sees in them a solution to the nonprofit community’s technology gap. According to NPower NY, the mission of the TSC is “to transform youth ranging from 18 to 25 from the streets into successful geeks.”

Time Warner is committed to developing the next generation of leaders from among diverse and underserved youth. A major emphasis of Time Warner’s funding is on afterschool programs that prepare teens for college and help them build skills in media and the arts.
 

The North Carolina Center for Afterschool Programs (NCCAP) was created through the leadership of Governor Mike Easley to bring the state’s afterschool providers, community leaders and policymakers together to build a network that addresses the afterschool program issues of quality, accessibility, and sustainable funding.