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)
5
Progressive program tracks
Program tracks
One pathway. Five progressive tracks.
Designed to be complementary — a participant can enter at any age in Track 1 and continue along connected education-to-career pathways into adulthood. All programs run in hybrid format with wraparound supports.
DC Launch Lab
Youth Entrepreneurship & Digital Literacy
An experiential entrepreneurship program equipping youth with 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, participants launch market-ready ventures — 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 track 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.
Brand 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.
People First
Centering the lived experience and goals of every participant we serve.
Advance Opportunity
Credential-focused programs that open real doors to real jobs.
Stronger Together
Built in partnership with employers, agencies, and community organizations.
Equity in Action
Wraparound support so zip code never determines outcome.
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.