Dear Guest of the May Convening: Thank you for joining us at the Opportunity Youth Forum (OYF) Convening at the Millennium Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles, CA. We look forward to bringing together leaders from backbone organizations and their collaborative partners, including young leaders and those representing school systems, institutions of higher education, community-based organizations,…

The Opportunity Youth Forum (OYF) announced a new $6 Million investment in pathways for opportunity youth.

The Opportunity Youth Network (OYF) will convene its national network at the annual OYF Cross-Site Spring Convening in Boston, Massachusetts

U.S. leaders reflect on the 2023 Global Opportunity Youth Network convening in Kenya.

Movements that heal divides, improve systems, and build community cohesion need leaders who can reach across silos.

These are the OYF Common Measures for collaboratives with larger geographic footprints.

Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Project is a project designed to create a bridge from western societies to Utqiaġvik’s sustainable-traditional culture.

Power of Place 2021 Digital Learning Series The Power of Place series focused on structural racism in the systems that touch opportunity youth (OY) and the interventions that best support youth and young adults to achieve their goals, including programs and systems that advance meaning-making, foster belonging, purpose and well-being, and deepen healing practices. The…

This month, with support from JPMorgan Chase and additional funders, including Prudential Financial and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions (AIFCS), a program of the Aspen Institute, awarded $1.6 million to innovative community collaboratives that seek to dramatically reduce the number of opportunity youth in communities across the country by…

2020 Brought New Investments and New Communities to the Aspen Institute Opportunity Youth Forum.