Year Up

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Year Up United
Established2000;24 years ago (2000)
FounderGerald Chertavian
Type501(c)(3) Nonprofit
Legal status501(c)(3)
PurposeEducation
HeadquartersBoston
Location
  • United States
Key people
Ellen McClain (CEO & President) [1]
Revenue$179.3 million [2] (2022)
Students4,000 [3] (2022 [3] )
Website yearup.org

Year Up United is an American nonprofit organization focused on education and job skills. The organization provides students without a 4- year bachelor's degree with resources, training and corporate internships with the aim of improving their job prospects and social mobility.

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History

The organization was founded in Boston in 2000 by Gerald Chertavian, [4] who worked as a banker on Wall Street and later co-founded a software company. [5]

In June 2002, Year Up United's first class of students graduated its one-year program. [6] The program had started in Boston in 2001 with 22 students. [7]

In 2011, Year Up United established a Puget Sound program, based in downtown Seattle. [4] It opened a program in Phoenix in 2014. [8]

As of 2020, the organization worked with more than 250 companies that provided funding for the program and took on interns. [9]

In 2021, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation in the US Department of Health and Human Services (OPRE) published a report of a study it had sponsored, evaluating Year Up United's longer-term impact via a five-year randomized controlled trial. The study found that the Year Up United program had a statistically significant impact on earnings. [10] In 2022, the OPRE reported that six years after completing the Year Up United program, past participants had an income 30% higher than a control group of non-participants. [3]

As of 2022, approximately 4,000 students per year participated in Year Up United's programs. [3]

In September 2024, the organization changed their name to Year Up United. [11] They were also shown in a Netflix documentary, Untapped: Closing America's Opportunity Gap, which released in October 2024. [12]

Programs

Year Up United's program includes job skills training and internships in a corporate environment, [10] for underserved students who have a high school diploma or equivalent, but have not received a college degree. [3] [13] [5] [14] [15] [16] As of 2024, the program was aimed at young people and accepted participants aged between 18 and 29 years old. [17]

The organization also runs a program providing materials and resources to other training providers working with students, including community colleges. [18]

Funding and partnerships

The majority of funding for Year Up United is provided by its corporate partners. [10] Additional funding is provided by sponsorships, donations and public funding, the latter of which represented 2% of the organization's budget as of 2018. [19] In 2022, Google announced it was working with Year Up United and two other job training programs to provide funding and course content. [14] Also in 2022, Year Up United received a grant of $3 million from the private equity firm Blackstone Inc. [18]

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  2. ↑ "Year Up 2022 Form 990" (PDF). YearUp.org. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Lohr, Steve (2022-10-03). "These Job-Training Programs Work, and May Show Others the Way". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-01-16.
  4. 1 2 Soper, Taylor (2014-05-16). "Year Up: How this program transforms low-income young adults into rising tech stars". GeekWire. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
  5. 1 2 Gralnick, Jodi (2016-02-24). "A year in this program offers path to success". CNBC. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
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  8. ↑ Ringle, Hayley (2019-11-30). "Year Up expands into Mesa, seeking West Valley partner and campus". Phoenix Business Journal.
  9. ↑ Epperson, Sharon (2020-06-05). "As black jobless rate soars, Year Up and partners Merck, Amazon and others offer career development". CNBC. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
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  16. ↑ Safer, Morley (2014-01-26). "60 Minutes: Jobs program aids Fortune 500 and underprivileged youth". CBS News. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  17. ↑ "Become a Student | Student Eligibility | How to Apply". Year Up United. Retrieved 2024-09-12.
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