Events & Convenings

The Opportunity Youth Forum meets twice a year. Check out this page for links to convening content like agendas and plenary videos.

The convenings of the Opportunity Youth Forum are a twice yearly highlight for members of our network. Attendance is by invitation only.

In collaboration with key implementation partner Jobs for the Future, the Opportunity Youth Forum designed and launched a national learning community of grantee partners over 10 years ago, which continue to this day. This learning community engages Opportunity Youth Forum site leads, youth leaders, funders, thought partners, and national leaders across many sectors in two convenings per year: a spring convening, typically hosted by a member community in order to promote learning in local context and lift up promising local practices in reconnecting opportunity youth, and a fall convening, which typically takes place on the Aspen Institute campus in Aspen, Colorado and focuses on national innovations and movement-building efforts.

“We look forward to bringing together leaders from backbone organizations and their collaborative partners, including youth leaders and those representing school systems, institutions of higher education, community-based organizations, foundations, the private sector and government.”

Melody Barnes, Chair, Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions

At Our ConveningS: national Leaders from Across the Field

The Opportunity Youth Forum Bi-Annual Convenings feature dynamic national, state and local leaders, practitioners, and organizers who inspire, influence, and inform our national learning agenda and collective arc to catalyze field-building, policy-change, and spark systems-change for communities & opportunity youth.

OYF CROSS-SITE CONVENING FALL 2025 i Aspen, CO