Where opportunity meets impact.
OpportunityWorks delivers structured, evidence-based career and skills programs that help youth and adults nationwide build industry-relevant skills, earn valued credentials, gain career-connected experience, and advance along pathways to quality jobs and economic mobility.
600+
Youth served through MBSYEP
85%
Program completion rate
6 yrs
DOES Outstanding ratings (2020–2026)
6
Career pathway programs
Programs
One mission. Multiple pathways. Six programs.
Designed to be complementary — participants can enter the program that meets their needs and continue along connected education-to-career pathways. All programs run in hybrid format with wraparound supports.
DC Launch Lab
Youth Entrepreneurship & Digital Literacy
An experiential entrepreneurship program delivered through three age-based tracks for youth ages 9–13, 14–15, and 16–17. Participants gain the knowledge and tools to create, market, and manage real online businesses through structured instruction, hands-on product development using Printify and Etsy, digital marketing via TikTok and Instagram, and foundational financial literacy — culminating in a public-facing pitch to stakeholders.
WorkSmart Youth AI Lab
Technology Skills & AI Credentials
An accelerated, career-connected technology program delivering three stackable, industry-recognized credentials while building hands-on AI fluency. The program develops both technical proficiency and the ethical frameworks needed to thrive in AI-augmented workplaces.
Financial Foundations
Financial Capability & Career Readiness
A structured financial capability and career readiness program that documents 54%→85% knowledge gains. Participants build the money management, career planning, and entrepreneurial fundamentals needed for long-term economic self-sufficiency and mobility.
Opportunity Apprenticeship
CompTIA Pre-Apprenticeship & Registered Apprenticeship
A two-phase earn-and-learn pathway from pre-apprenticeship into a DOL Registered Apprenticeship across five technology occupations, delivered in partnership with the AIR Apprenticeships for Tech network and aligned to CompTIA National Guideline Standards.
Adult Career & Skills Training
Skills, Credentials & Career Advancement for Adults
A new program in development for adults ready to upskill, reskill, earn industry-recognized credentials, or transition into high-demand career pathways. Curriculum, credentials, and partner employers are being finalized. Details coming soon.
NextStep Customer Care
Digital Literacy & Customer Service Career Readiness
A career readiness training program for adults ages 50 and older, focused on building digital literacy skills through the Northstar curriculum and preparing participants to earn a national credential from the National Customer Service Association.
Our core values
A nation where zip code no longer determines opportunity.
Every young person and adult deserves a clear, supported, and credentialed path to economic self-sufficiency and financial freedom.
Context
We recognize the dangers of a single story. Context drives our work, ensuring our solutions are grounded in the realities of the communities served.
Impact
We seek nothing short of transformative system change. Each partnership is a commitment to create a lasting impact.
Learning
We foster continuous learning and stay ahead of the curve, evolving to deliver exceptional results for our partners.
Co-Creation
We believe lived experience is expertise. Those who live the challenges should architect the solutions.
Community
We nurture joy and cultivate strong, authentic relationships, fostering trust within our team and with our partners.
Place a cohort. Build a pipeline. Strengthen your community.
We partner with school systems, juvenile justice agencies, housing authorities, workforce boards, employers, and community organizations to build career pathways that move people from skills development and credentials to quality employment and career advancement.