Alumni Partner Organizations
Fair Chance has been working with youth-serving organizations in Washington, D.C. since 2002. Fair Chance maintains communication with alumni partners and continues to invite them to the Fair Chance Partner Roundtables, bi-monthly networking dialogues on important nonprofit management topics.
Academy of Hope provides high-quality educational empowerment and support to adults in the District of Columbia by helping them earn high school credentials, improve their math and reading skills, and learn how to use and apply computer technologies through an experiential approach that focuses on life skills and provides its students with new knowledge that can be immediately applied in their lives.
Advocates for Justice and Education educates parents, youth, and the community about the laws governing public education, specifically for children with special needs. In Washington, DC's low-income, under-served communities, Advocates for Justice and Education empowers parents to be effective advocates and youth to self advocate to ensure that children receive an appropriate education.
Anacostia Community Outreach Center (ACOC) provides long-term services and assists residents of the Anacostia community of southeast, Washington, DC by meeting their immediate needs for food, clothing, education, and employment. ACOC achieves its goal through education, youth sports, social services, recreational, and counseling services programming.
Ascensions Community Services, Inc. Ascensions Community Services helps disadvantaged children and families rise above past and current difficulties to a place of renewed wellness, competency, and stability through psychological interventions, culturally competent psychological evaluations, and relevant psych-education.
Beyond Talent empowers non-traditional high school graduates in the Washington, DC area to overcome barriers to higher education and employment so they can succeed and start cycles of success in their communities. Beyond Talent provides a high level of encouragement throughout its three programs: Next Steps/College and Career Counseling, Peer Mentoring, and College Readiness.
Brainfood (District-wide)
Brainfood uses food as a tool to build life skills with youth in a fun and creative setting. Through culinary-related activities, they promote active learning, self-reliance and healthy living to empower youth as resources in their own community.
Breakthrough Collaborative increases educational opportunity for high-potential, low-income middle school students and inspires outstanding college and high school students to pursue careers in education. Breakthrough accomplishes its mission by providing students with tutoring, mentoring, high school placement, and college counseling.
CHOICE helps suspended youth stay connected with their teachers and school work and provides teaching services, personal development, and anger management training for youth in trouble.
College & Career Connections engages 7th - 10th grade students in motivational, experiential college and career exploration programs. College & Career Connections engages students in "real world" experiences such as college field trips, career discussions, and career field trips, which help make college attendance and the choice of a meaningful career become concrete realities.
DC Creative Writing Workshop unites parents, teachers, students, and professional writers-in-residence to transform the lives of youth through self-expression and the power of the written word, in southeast DC. D.C. Creative Writing Workshop's programs include in-class instruction, after-school clubs, teaching tolerance through literature, and a reading resource center.
Earth Conservation Corps (Wards 6, 7 & 8) Earth Conservation Corps is a youth development and environmental service organization located where the heavily polluted Anacostia River flows through DC’s most disadvantaged communities. Founded in 2002, their mission is to empower at-risk youth, ages 17-25, to reclaim the Anacostia River, their communities, and their lives. Using the challenge and promise of restoring the Anacostia River, ECC engages unemployed community youth in workforce training, environmental education, and media arts.
Facilitating Leadership in Youth (FLY) supports youth east of the Anacostia River in achieving their goals, developing their talents, and expanding their leadership roles through one-on-one relationships with university mentors and tutors. FLY's year-round, long-term approach matches students with volunteer mentors who empower them to be leaders and advocates. Driven by youth-led decision making, FLY's program augments each student's academic learning until they graduate from high school and pursue higher education, vocational school, or meaningful employment.
Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso (FAN) brings a positive youth development perspective to Washington D.C. youth in foster care and provides young people with formal and informal opportunities to nurture their interests and talents, acquire new skills, and gain a new sense of personal and group recognition in an atmosphere of hope.
The Fishing School is a faith-based, after-school family and child support center that provides a safe haven with intervention and education for vulnerable youth, while empowering them to open doors to limitless possibilities. The Fishing School's community-supported programming helps students achieve academic success and improve their performance in school by providing them with supplemental academic instruction, targeted tutoring, homework assistance, test preparation, life skills training, and recreation and cultural enrichment.
Free Minds introduces incarcerated youth to the transformative power of reading and writing through a weekly book club and writing workshop. Free Minds inspires these individuals to see their potential and achieve new educational and career goals through mentorship and connecting them to supportive services throughout their incarceration into reentry.
Hannah Johnson Community Development Corporation (HJCDC) offers an intensive one-on-one mentoring program serving Ward 8 youth, ages 9-13, that encourages them to positively redirect and set educational, cultural, and personal goals.
Interstages provides opportunities for early adolescents in low-income neighborhoods to discover talents, develop and strengthen skills, and heighten self-awareness, setting the stage for a successful transition into young adulthood. Students study the arts in historical and cultural context, so they begin to connect to history and view arts as both social indicators and tools for social change.
Kid Power-DC provides development programming to youth from under-served communities in the District of Columbia. Kid Power-DC, a civics-based organization, provides in-school and after-school programs that allow students to explore advanced civic concepts through academic enrichment, artistic means, and service-learning opportunities.
Life Pieces to Masterpieces is an arts-based, comprehensive youth development organization that serves boys and young men ages 3 to 21 living in low-income and public housing east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. Life Pieces to Masterpieces provides opportunities to discover and activate the innate and creative abilities of its members to change life challenges into possibilities.
Life Starts (serving youth from Wards 7 & 8) provides mentoring, life skills, coaching, support, and advocacy for youth and their families. Life Starts' actions are built upon the belief that transformation begins with the heart. They encourage individuals to create and cultivate a positive change in their lives and inspire others to do the same.
Little Lights Urban Ministries empowers underserved youth and families in Washington, DC by developing its constituents spiritually, socially, and intellectually, through academics, life skills, the arts, and discipleship.
LINK (Linking Communities for Educational Success) empowers at-risk teens east of the Anacostia River by providing academic support, mentoring, college preparation workshops and Saturday and Summer Academies.
Literacy Volunteers and Advocates empowers adults and families by providing literacy instruction and skills-based education through classes and tutoring to help adults in the Washington, DC area who struggle with reading and writing, thereby enriching all aspects of their personal and professional lives.
Live It Learn It (Wards 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8)
Live It Learn It boosts the academic achievement and motivation of students in high-needs DC public schools by supplementing conventional instruction with experiential, rigorous, academically-focused trips to DC's world-class museums, memorials, parks, and other local resources.
Love Thy Neighbor Community, Inc. is dedicated to enhancing the lives and skills of children and families in the Shipley Terrace neighborhood. LTNC provides after school tutoring, arts and recreation programs; an 8-week summer camp; and a youth and senior meal assistance program.
Mentoring ToDAY provides dedicated mentoring and advocacy services to youth reintegrating into the Washington, DC community from Oak Hill Youth Center. Mentoring ToDAY empowers DC's at-risk youth to recognize their dreams and live their aspirations.
MELD/Evenstart's mission is to support adolescent families (ages 12-24) as they work to achieve literacy, healthy lifestyles, and expanded world view and economic self-sufficiency.
One World (Wards 5 and 8)
One World promotes global awareness, literacy and meaningful citizenship with educational resources that give voice to youth perspectives on culture and global issues. Using the One World website, youth journalists, and a curriculum, One World reaches into classrooms to help make better connections between students and issues happening in the world.
Our Children, Inc. aims to strengthen the character and develop the minds of underserved youth through tutoring, mentoring, and HIV/AIDS outreach.
Parklands Community Center strengthens families in the Parklands Housing Community through parenting classes, life-skills workshops, family strengthening conferences, activities, and services, and case management programs that ultimately increase the number of children succeeding in school and reduce child abuse and neglect.
Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care, Inc. provides children living with HIV/AIDS with education, therapy, and youth programming to empower them to live healthy and successful lives. Pediatric AIDS/HIV Care is the only organization in the DC area devoted exclusively to vital support services for children and adolescents living with HIV/AIDS.
Pin Points Theatre is located in Ward 7 and uses the process of theatre to teach varied audiences, especially at-risk youth, the attitudes, skills, and resources that lead to successful lives. Pin Points Theatre accomplishes this through plays, publications, and workshops that educate, entertain, and inspire happy, healthy, and productive lives.
Resources for Inner City Children (RICH) is dedicated to providing professional tutoring, SAT preparation, and teacher mentoring to inner city high schools in Washington, D.C. In an effort to make certain that every student becomes a productive adult living up to his or her potential, RICH also coordinates with organizations that provide tutoring services, psychoeducational testing, college counseling, advocacy, occupational therapy, and other educational resources.
RISE, Inc. (Reaching Inside for Self-Esteem) provides youth development, crime prevention services, and HIV/AIDS education programs to communities East of the River.
The Scholarship Academy helps make college a realistic opportunity for low-income students by equipping them with the necessary tools to obtain financial aid opportunities.
Technology Playground (Wards 1, 5, 6, 7 & 8)
Technology Playground aims to develop the social, economic, and educational skills of youth into community leaders through the use of teaching, training and empowerment utilizing resources of information technology. Through a Youth Entrepreneurial Program, a Youth Empowerment Project, and an upcoming Virtual Trails project that allows youth to experience DC through a computer experience, Technology Playground challenges young people and exposes them learning various skills through technology.
Time Dollar Youth Court (Youth Court) provides alternative sentencing to first-time juvenile offenders and serves as a diversion program for youth who have committed minor, non-violent infractions. Youth Court provides an avenue for teens to take responsibility for their actions with the goal of keeping them out of the juvenile justice system.
The Urban Alliance Foundation, Inc. prepares economically disadvantaged DC high school students for the workforce by providing year-long internships, work skills training and professional development workshops.
Urban Ed (Wards 7 and 8)
Urban Ed strives to provide education, information and skill development to low-income people of color to foster economic independence. Offering career, technical and business training, and skill building, Urban Ed works with youth from Oak Hill and the wards 7 & 8 community to help secure skills in the technology field and improve their visions of their future.
Ward 8 Tennis Council provides residents of Southeast with safe and structured activities to teach the basics of tennis, encourage a healthy lifestyle, and provide an alternative to drugs and violence.
Words Beats and Life exists to develop the skills of youth in Ward 7 through hip-hop by providing artistic instruction, opportunities for self-expression, and mentoring relationships with local artists.
