• Foundation for Louisiana
    $300,000 through October, 2020

    to support Youthshift, a new youth services intermediary, to build solutions toward improvement of youth outcomes in New Orleans.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: November, 2017
  • The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
    $85,000 through November, 2018

    to support EMPLOY and a strategic planning process for its future.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: October, 2017
  • Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-Sustainability Team, Inc.
    $200,000 through October, 2019

    to invest in social enterprises that train disadvantaged youth in the Brazilian hospitality industry.

    Opportunity Youth South America Awarded: October, 2017
  • DataKind
    $50,000 through November, 2018

    to work with Delgado Community College to use data to improve outcomes in career education in the hospitality sector.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: September, 2017
  • Liberty's Kitchen
    $1,200,000 through August, 2020

    to fund strategic planning, provide core support and increase organizational capacity.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2017
  • University of Houston Foundation
    $2,400,000 through August, 2020

    to the Conrad N. Hilton School of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston to support the implementation of recommendations from the strategic audit.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2017
  • The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
    $725,000 through January, 2022

    to support the expansion of the Cowen Institute’s Earn and Learn program, an apprenticeship type job-training and education program, into hospitality pathways at the Hilton Riverside.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: August, 2017
  • The Forum for Youth Investment
    $125,000 through June, 2019

    to support advocacy on behalf of Opportunity Youth and foster youth populations.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: June, 2017
  • Cafe Hope, Inc.
    $305,000 through March, 2019

    as a capacity building grant for Café Hope, an organization that provides full-service culinary training paired with life skills to youth in the New Orleans metro area.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: March, 2017
  • University of Denver
    $200,000 through February, 2020

    for the CFaSST (Commercial Food Safety and Service Training) refugee training program, a partnership between KSHM and the ECDC/African Community Center in Denver, Colorado.

    Opportunity Youth USA Awarded: February, 2017