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.
Advocates for Justice and Education
Advocates for Justice and Education provide quality advocacy, training, leadership development, and direct services to parents of children with special needs in low-income, under-served communities.
Anacostia Community Outreach Center (ACOC)
ACOC provides emergency and long-term services to families living in poverty. The ACOC runs a football league and summer program for children, and provides computer training and emergency food provision for adults and families.
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
Beyond Talent seeks college-bound G.E.D. students a minimum of five hours per week at their partner agencies. Mentors and current prepare for both exams and life. Beyond Talent mentors also participate in leadership development activities that prepare them to make a lasting impact in their communities.
CHOICE
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.
DC Creative Writing Workshop
D.C. Creative Writing Workshop, based at Charles Hart Middle School in Southeast D.C., unites parents, teachers and professional writers-in-residence to provide creative writing instruction and arts opportunities to students at Hart, Ballou Sr. High and Simon Elementary.
Facilitating Leadership in Youth (FLY)
FLY supports youth east of the Anacostia River in achieving their goals, developing their talents, and expeanding their leadership roles through one-on-one relationships with university mentors and tutors.
The Fishing School
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.
Free Minds
Free Minds introduces incarcerated youth to the transformative power of reading and writing through a weekly book club and writing workshop.
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
Interstages operates a daily after school youth development program for middle school girls in Ward 7. Three key program elements make the Interstages.
Kid Power-DC
Kid Power-DC uses local history and instruction in writing, research, filmmaking, and visual and performing arts as the starting point for comprehensive citizenship training. Kid Power-DC believes that by making a personal connection to the past and by acquiring advanced academic and artistic skills, at-risk youth can become powerful neighborhood advocates.
Life Pieces to Masterpieces
Life Pieces to Masterpieces provides African American males, living in low-income and public housing, with opportunities to change challenges into possibilities through artistic creation and a series of youth development programs.
Little Lights Urban Ministries
Little Lights Urban Ministries provides places of joy, empowerment, and inspiration for at-risk children and youth through caring relationships, academic and arts programs, community service, and spirituality, particularly for the Potomac Gardens housing project in Southeast, DC.
LINK (Linking Communities for Educational Success)
LINK 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
Literacy Volunteers of the National Capital Area enhances the lives of adults in the Washington, D.C., area who struggle with reading and writing.
Love Thy Neighbor Community, Inc.
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
Mentoring ToDAY provides dedicated mentoring and advocacy services to youth reintegrating into the Washington, D.C. community from Oak Hill Youth Center.
MELD/Evenstart
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.
Our Children, Inc.
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
Parklands Community Center strengthens families in the Parklands Housing Community through parenting classes and case management programs.
Pin Points Theatre
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.
RISE, Inc (Reaching Inside for Self-Esteem)
RISE provides youth development, crime prevention services, and HIV/AIDS education programs to communities East of the River.
The Urban Alliance Foundation, Inc.
Urban Alliance prepares economically disadvantaged DC high school students for the workforce by providing year-long internships, work skills training and professional development workshops.
Ward 8 Tennis Council
The 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
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.