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Introducing Year Up United! Read the letter from our CEO and President, Ellen McClain.

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Partnering With Purpose

At Year Up United, our comprehensive solutions drive real business value.

Our Solutions

Together, Career Pathways, Talent Networks, YUPRO Placement, and Grads of Life offer holistic end-to-end solutions, tailored to meet the needs of talent, businesses, and communities. By continually deepening our understanding of talent and building community with our expansive network of companies and partnerships, we create even greater access and connection to drive change and exponential impact.

Grads of Life works with leading employers to implement skills-first talent practices that deliver both business benefits and social impact. We help companies adopt practices that strengthen their business while increasing access to economic opportunity. Grads of Life can empower you to:

  • Equip your team with data, training, and tools to hire, retain, and advance Opportunity Talent.

  • Assess current practices and implement skills-first approaches.

  • Gain clarity on where to invest to make strides toward an equitable workforce.

YUPRO Placement is a mission-driven placement firm solving today’s unique skills-first hiring challenge by sourcing, recruiting, and placing historically excluded talent at various career states. We offer companies access to a robust talent pipeline to hire smarter and optimize business performance. YUPRO Placement helps you:

  • Open your talent pools, improving early and mid-career candidate quality, while building a diverse workforce with access to ready-to-work talent from an exclusive talent community.

  • Hire skilled jobseekers into contract-to-hire assignments, wage-based apprenticeships, and permanent roles, all backed by our on-the-job coaching and retention resources to help talent succeed.

  • Create pathways to upward career and economic mobility and workplace diversity, driving positive career and business outcomes.

Through Career Pathways’ proven job training programs, we provide young adults with access to economic opportunity and mobility in many of America’s largest and best-known companies.

Through Talent Networks, we partner with local organizations to create a broader pipeline of skilled talent that is mapped and scaled to the needs of today’s top employers.

Join Our Current Partners

We’re challenging systems. We’re changing minds and mindsets. We’re championing young adults, no matter their background, income, or zip code. But most importantly, we’re doing it together. Because united, there’s nowhere to go but up.

Want to Become a Partner?

Many of today’s top companies turn to Year Up United for support accessing and developing untapped talent.