The Work of Opportunity
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Sep 29, 2025
As the US approaches its 250th anniversary, we are reflecting on America’s founding ideals—and asking whether the promise of opportunity still holds true today.
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Jan 2, 2019
Job-Training Program Helps Students Find Success
"This isn’t a handout, it’s a hand up," Year Up’s executive director for greater Philadelphia tells public radio.
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Jan 1, 2019
Nonprofit Teaches Skills, Helps Young People Find Jobs
Atlanta INtown describes how Greater Atlanta Year Up has helped more than 12,000 youth reach their potential through professional careers and higher education.
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Dec 20, 2018
How to Unleash $45 Billion for Charity
“There's nothing that creates imitation like success.” Chairman Stan Druckenmiller tells Barron’s he hopes Blue Meridian’s aggregation of capital will inspire other philanthropists.
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Dec 20, 2018
Strengthening Communities Through Innovative Solutions
Boston’s NBC-TV affiliate spotlights how Year Up’s internships prepare youth for the job market.
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Dec 18, 2018
Set It and Forget It: How Better Contraception Could Be a Key to Reducing Poverty
The New York Times reports on Delaware’s ambitious bid to offer one-stop shopping for birth control, describing the program made possible by Upstream’s training and technical assistance “a social experiment that other states will be watching.”
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Dec 5, 2018
This Free Program Trains Students and Matches Them with Paid IT Internships
The Penny Hoarder, a personal finance website, describes how Year up connects underserved urban youth with unfilled, well-paying jobs.
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Nov 6, 2018
Memphis Nonprofit Helps Foster Children Transition to Adulthood
WMC-TV reports on the expanding impact of the “life-changing” YVLifeSet program.
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Oct 31, 2018
America’s Other Family-Separation Crisis
The New Yorker reports how The Bail Project’s Robin Steinberg and a program supported by the Birth through Eight Strategy for Tulsa are helping incarcerated women and their children in Oklahoma.
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Oct 30, 2018
Blue Meridian, Big Bet Investor in Child Welfare Programs, Becomes a Nonprofit
The Chronicle of Social Change describes Blue Meridian Partners’ plans for growth and independence.
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Oct 29, 2018
Program to Help Foster Youth Aging Out Expands to Los Angeles, D.C., Illinois and Louisiana
The Chronicle of Social Change reports on the continuing growth of YVLifeSet.