The Year Up United Make-Up
Year Up United combines expertise across talent, business, and community landscapes to create lasting societal change that impacts both sides of the Opportunity Divide.
What We Do
Each of our offerings—Grads of Life, YUPRO Placement, Career Pathways, Talent Networks, Alumni—exists to address unique needs, but they work together to create opportunity for all. Whether we’re helping students excel at their passion or connecting businesses to a network of skilled professionals, we are united in our pursuit of an equitable workforce for a future that needs it.
Grads of Life
Create an equitable skills-first talent strategy through Grads of Life. Our advisory services and flagship tools, the Skills-First Accelerator and Skills-First Navigator, offer employers the insights, tactics, and support they need to meet immediate hiring needs and create long-term talent management solutions.
Talent Networks
Community partners gain access to resources that can help their students advance beyond the classroom through our Career Connect, Career Labs, and Career Alliances programs. We enable local organizations to provide the support young adults need to thrive in the industries they are passionate about and set them up for the next steps in their career journeys.
YUPRO Placement
YUPRO Placement provides innovative and nontraditional skills-first workforce solutions that address skills gaps and hiring demand for employers nationwide. Whether you require temporary skilled professionals to meet increased demand or need to nurture a pipeline of professionals equipped with sought-after skills, YUPRO Placement can find you the talent you need through our suite of staffing solutions.
Alumni
Our network of 30,000+ alumni around the world continue to prove that what we do at Year Up United works. With access to our alumni resource services, networks, and communications, alumni stay connected with the next generation of Year Up United talent, joining a community that works together to impact the world, one career at a time.
Career Pathways
Through our tuition-free training offering, young adults develop the skills they need to excel in corporate America. With more than 10 different Career Pathways, students can learn from experts while earning an educational stipend, gain hands-on experience with access to internships, and connect with some of the leading companies in the country.
United by our Equity Focus
All together, our offerings work to end the Opportunity Divide. By providing innovative solutions to opportunity disparities across corporate America, Year Up United is not only disrupting old systems, we’re creating better ones. Together, we’re building an equitable workforce for the future.
A Difference From Day One
By partnering with Year Up United to make an impact on your business, you’re leaving an even greater impact on the world around you. Because those who partner with us are more than just fulfilling their corporate goals, they’re investing in skills-first talent who can help them catalyze industry innovation, economic growth, and community wellbeing.
Transform Your Team
We are closing hiring gaps for our corporate partners with our innovative training program. Through our suite of expert services, we are not only creating bespoke strategies scaled to each partners’ needs, we’re also connecting your business to a network of skilled professionals who are as passionate about your mission as you are. This is about more than filling roles, it’s creating meaningful and lasting change to how you hire, retain, and advance your workforce.
UNTAPPED: Closing America's Opportunity Gap Now Streaming on Netflix
This inspiring documentary follows the powerful, real-life stories of six Year Up United graduates as they launch careers, redefining what it means to be a "qualified" job candidate. Hear from top industry leaders and advocates of skills-first hiring on why supporting talent from nontraditional pathways isn't just the right thing to do--it's good for business too.
UNTAPPED: Closing America's Opportunity Gap - Now Streaming on Netflix
Make Big Changes With First Steps
By getting involved with Year Up United’s mission, you are helping to change the lives of thousands of students around the country each year. No matter your level of involvement, Year Up United is designed to create rippling impacts with every step forward. Because with each opportunity we’re able to provide to previously excluded young talent, we get that much closer to ending the divide.
Support Us
At Year Up United, you can see the direct impact of your donation. By supporting our programs, you’re not only helping to reimagine the futures of young adults in your community, you’re helping to transform the community itself.
Partner With Us
Providing our corporate partners with access to a broader pipeline of talent means we can work to end the divide from both sides—fulfilling young adults’ ambitions while supporting your business needs.
Learn More About Us
Year Up United can help you access and discover new opportunities. Through our partnerships with corporations, community colleges, and school districts, we’re helping young adults build meaningful careers.
Make a Donation
Our mission is made possible by our generous donors. With your support, you can help make a difference in young adults’ lives across the country while seeing its direct impact in your community.
Become a Student
Change your future by following your passion. Year Up United can help you take the first step toward your professional future, today.
Refer a Student
Connect a young adult you know to new opportunity by referring them to Year Up United, and be the reason behind their future full of possibilities.