100K Opportunities Initiative Demonstration Cities

In 2015, the Forum for Community Solutions, in collaboration with the Rockefeller Foundation, Starbucks Coffee Company,  the Schultz Family Foundation, and Walmart, helped to launch the 100,000 Opportunities Initiative™ an employer-led coalition focused on opportunity youth. This partnership seeks to create more pathways to economic prosperity for vulnerable youth and connect employers to this underutilized talent pipeline.

The Forum for Community Solutions supports five Demonstration Cities — Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Phoenix and Seattle — places with deepened capacity to engage employers and strengthen career pathways for opportunity youth.