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Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP)

Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP)™ is a multimillion-dollar initiative to increase employment and educational opportunities for young people facing some of the greatest challenges on the path to adulthood. The initiative was partially funded by a grant from the Social Innovation Fund, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency for volunteering and service programs, and receives support from national and local philanthropies.

LEAP focuses on youth and young adults ages 15 to 25 who are in foster care or involved in the criminal justice system, or who are homeless. Working with 10 local partnerships in Alaska, Arizona, California, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico and New York, the initiative aims to adapt two evidence-based models to meet the needs of these youth, including support to address the trauma they may have experienced in their lives.

Learn about LEAP's early achievements

Through LEAP, the Foundation hopes to identify effective strategies for helping youth and young adults overcome challenges and succeed in school and at work.

The evidence-based models we are adapting:

  • Jobs for the Future’s Back on Track
  • Jobs for America’s Graduates

LEAP Partners

  • Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services
  • Coalition for Responsible Community Development
  • Covenant House Alaska
  • The Door
  • Jobs for Arizona’s Graduates
  • Nebraska Children and Families Foundation
  • NMCAN
  • Project for Pride in Living
  • South Bay Community Services
  • University of Southern Maine

Additional LEAP Resources

  • Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential Fact Sheet
  • Connecting to Opportunity: Lessons on Adapting Interventions for Young People Experiencing Homelessness or Systems Involvement
  • Lessons from the Implementation of Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential
  • Lessons from LEAP: Making Education and Career Pathways Work for Justice-Involved Youth
  • Postsecondary Systems Change: Lessons from Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential

Learn More About LEAP

Patrice Cromwell
Director, Strategic Initiatives

Read Past Newsletters From LEAP

March 2020

December 2019

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February 2019

December 2018

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December 2017

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