This brief is the second in the Pathways to Progress series. In it, we describe the strategies each grantee pursued in the areas of service/leadership, summer jobs, entrepreneurship, and mentorship.
In 2014, the Citi Foundation launched Pathways to Progress, a three-year, $50 million initiative in the United States to help 100,000 low-income youth — ages 16 to 24 — develop the workplace skills and leadership experience necessary to compete in a 21st century economy.
To achieve its ambitious goal, the Foundation enacted a multi-tiered strategy focused primarily in ten cities: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Newark, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Pathways to Progress portfolio has three intended levels of impact: Youth, Organizations, and the Field. This brief focuses on the field. We provide an overview of current trends in the youth economic opportunity field, and describe how the five grantees are responding, and contributing, to emerging youth economic opportunity field trends.
The other briefs in our series on Pathways to Progress are below:
- Setting the Stage for Impact
- The Portfolio and the Field of Youth Economic Opportunity (viewing now)
- Forging Strategies to Broaden Impact
- A Tangible Impact on Youth Economic Opportunity
