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Built Oregon is a digital magazine that serves as a platform for showcasing the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of Oregon. It focuses on narrating compelling stories that highlight the state's network of entrepreneurs, community leaders, and support organizations. By producing engaging written and interactive content, Built Oregon aims to inspire entrepreneurs and foster connections within the local business ecosystem. The organization emphasizes the importance of storytelling to reach a broader audience, encouraging the sharing of these narratives beyond state lines. Additionally, Built Oregon operates as a not-for-profit entity, dedicated to creating equitable opportunities and supporting sustainable job growth within the consumer product sector.

Grow Greater Englewood is a social enterprise that collaborates with residents and developers to establish sustainable local food economies, green businesses, and land sovereignty in order to empower residents to create wellness and wealth.

The Young Masterminds Initiative is a non-profit organisation that promotes mentoring, leadership, and positive thinking.

STS Enterprise is an organization for leadership development. They provide life skills and tools for secondary or post-graduate opportunities to achieve economic mobility through mentorship, workshops, exposure to careers and experiences, and talent placement.

Year City is an organization dedicated to community service, engaging young individuals in meaningful service projects across 24 cities in the United States, as well as in London and Johannesburg. By fostering a spirit of volunteerism and leadership, Year City aims to address challenges faced by local communities while empowering participants to develop skills and gain valuable experiences. The organization focuses on creating positive change through various initiatives and programs, encouraging civic engagement and collaboration among its members.

Chicago Scholars is a college access, mentoring, and career support program. They select, train, and mentor academically ambitious students from under-resourced communities to complete college and become the next generation of leaders who will transform their neighborhoods and city. They develop deep collaborations with community-based organizations.

PURE Academy is recognized by the State of Tennessee as a non-public, Category IV church-related school. They are a private school with a holistic philosophy that is a college-preparatory in-person, personalized learning environment. PURE aligns state standards with an interdisciplinary project-based curriculum.

Founded in 1988, Roca takes on a unique and pressing challenge: helping to alter the life trajectories of America's most high-risk young people - the young people that are involved in crime, engaged in dangerous behaviors, have rejected help, have dropped out of school, and are simply too difficult for other programs to serve. Their mission is to disrupt the cycle of incarceration and poverty by helping young people transform their lives by providing them with tools they need to find long-term employment.

Year Up is a nonprofit organization focused on closing the Opportunity Divide by equipping urban young adults with essential skills and professional experience. It offers tuition-free, skills-based training programs that include internships with partner companies and comprehensive job search support. By empowering participants to develop their capabilities, Year Up aims to facilitate their entry into meaningful careers or higher education, ultimately helping them to realize their full potential.

Black Parent Initiative is a culture-specific, community-centered organization that co-creates and collaborates with our families to create innovative, culturally relevant, and long-term interventions and opportunities to help them thrive.

Read Lead is a literacy and leadership initiative for youth and young adults in Los Angeles County.

The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis exists to empower African Americans and others throughout the region in securing economic self-reliance, social equality, and civil rights. The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc. takes a holistic approach to economic empowerment and self sufficiency. Through community programs in three counties across the bi-state region, it helps its clients to climb out of poverty by helping them to find economic opportunity, providing educational excellence and community empowerment and encouraging civil rights and advocacy. The League’s Community Empowerment Initiative provides clients in need with food, clothing and other life necessities while strengthening families and helping people become self-sufficient. The Education Excellence Initiative encourages and enables participants to apply learning to everyday situations, to embrace technology and to achieve academic excellence. The Economic Opportunity Initiative provides resources to strengthen individuals, families, and communities by improving and climbing the economic “ladder” to a better quality of life.

Brave Space Alliance is the first black-led, trans-led LGBTQ+ center, dedicated to developing and delivering affirming, culturally competent, for-us-by-us resources, programming, and services for LGBTQ+ people on the city's south and west sides.

Elevate Oregon builds relationships with marginalised youth to promote education, self-reliance, and leadership. They provide a year-round mentoring programme that integrates with the high school curriculum to increase graduation rates and college enrollment as well as career development for students of colour in grades 6–12.

InnerCity Weightlifting is a non-profit organization dedicated to reducing youth violence in urban communities. The company achieves this by offering weightlifting training programs that engage at-risk young people, providing them with new networks and opportunities for economic mobility and social inclusion. Through these initiatives, InnerCity Weightlifting aims to disrupt the cycle of urban street violence by fostering professional, personal, and academic achievement among participants.

Hustle Mommies aims to raise the voices of urban, inner-city moms by providing them with resources to advocate for their families and communities.

BUILD is a nonprofit organization focused on empowering high school students from underserved communities through entrepreneurship education. By providing a four-year curriculum, BUILD engages students in real-world entrepreneurial experiences that aim to enhance their educational prospects and professional success. The program motivates students to aspire to attend four-year colleges by integrating entrepreneurship training with college preparation. BUILD's approach not only fosters academic achievement but also encourages students to become leaders in their communities, thereby creating a positive impact in the areas they serve. Through its unique educational model, BUILD seeks to inspire and cultivate the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Their communities have a long history of socioeconomic injustices that created generational disparities; making it a challenge to advance in society. Their Own serves as a catalyst for innovation and epicenter to provide resources in untapped communities.

Goalsetter Foundation educates the kids and teaches them how to build their future.

Youth Guidance is a non-profit organization that offers community and after-school programs for the youth in schools.

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is a community organization that works to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons as well as eliminate race-based discrimination. NAACP was founded in 1909 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America provides children with assistance to reach their full potential. It is a non-governmental organization providing volunteer supported mentoring through a network that provides children with assistance to achieve measurable outcomes such as educational success, avoidance of risky behaviors, higher aspirations, greater confidence, and better relationships. It provides its network of mentors through its partnership with schools, parents, guardians, corporations, and communities. It pairs children with screened volunteer mentors and monitors and supports these one-to-one mentoring matches throughout their course. BBBS primarily provides professionally supported one-to-one mentoring relationships to children who face adversity and single or low-income households or families where a parent is incarcerated or serving in the military. It currently has nearly 340 agencies across the country. BBBS serves approximately 200,000 children, their families and 200,000 volunteer mentors. It was established in 1904 and it is based in New York.

Harlem Grown is an organization that inspires youth to lead healthy and ambitious lives. Harlem youth were served by garden-based development programs. They offer to provide and distribute food; our model seeks to positively impact the entire community through mentorship, education, and partnerships to create sustainable change.

The Sheriff’s & Police Activities League of Memphis & Shelby County , TN (Memphis Shelby PAL) is a non-profit youth mentoring organization devoted to preventing crime, building character and promoting success for children 5-18. They are an affiliate of the National Police Activities League (NPAL) working in partnership with Shelby County Schools, the City of Memphis and the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department.

ArchCity defenders is a multi faceted legal advocacy company that helps to reduce the criminalization of poverty and state brutality, particularly in minority communities. ACD's civil and criminal legal representation, social services, impact litigation, policy and media advocacy, and community collaboration create and inspire justice and equitable outcomes for people in the region and beyond. d defenders imagines a society free of systems of oppression, where justice and candidates belonging are noticed; communities where public safety takes priority investment in well being, health, and transformation rather than criminalization and incarceration and people living freely in their societies, flourishing regardless of race or income.

Legal Defense Fund is a non profit organization dedicated to racial justice. Through the power of law, narrative, research, and people, they defend and advance black people's dignity and citizenship.

Schoolseed Foundation collaborates with individuals, community organizations, and businesses to ensure that children receive a high-quality education.

Justice for Black Girls is a social justice education space dedicated to meeting the needs of black girls for protection, safety, and belonging.

Lawndale Christian Development provides affordable housing while also addressing economic challenges, encouraging homeownership, and assisting with community organising.

Thinkwatts Foundation focuses on grassroots community activation, financial literacy programs, custom container housing solutions, and charitable fundraising through entertainment industry efforts.

Citizens for Juvenile Justice is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to reforming and reimagining the juvenile justice and other youth-serving systems in Massachusetts.

Knowledge Quest is a non-profit organization that provides access to health and creates opportunities for families through extended learning academies.

The Equal Justice Initiative is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system. We litigate on behalf of condemned prisoners, juvenile offenders, people wrongly convicted or charged with violent crimes, poor people denied effective representation, and others whose trials are marked by racial bias or prosecutorial misconduct. EJI works with communities that have been marginalized by poverty and discouraged by unequal treatment. EJI also prepares reports, newsletters, and manuals to assist advocates and policymakers in the critically important work of reforming the administration of criminal justice.

All Star Code is a non-profit organization focused on empowering young men of color by providing them with the necessary skills and opportunities to succeed in the technology sector. The organization aims to attract, prepare, and place these individuals in tech careers, addressing the systemic opportunity gap they face. Through mentorship, industry exposure, and intensive training in computer science, All Star Code equips participants with the knowledge and experience required for full-time employment in technology companies. By fostering a foundation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the organization promotes economic opportunity and encourages financial independence and social mobility within underserved communities.

The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (The National Coalition) is a 501©3, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to increasing civic engagement and voter participation in Black and underserved communities. The National Coalition strives to create an enlightened community by engaging people in all aspects of public life through service/volunteerism, advocacy, leadership development and voting.

Just City’s mission is to transform local criminal justice policy and practice to ensure it is fair for all people regardless of wealth, race, or ethnicity.

LA Jets Track Club encourages black elementary students in the Los Angeles area to participate in track and field.

All Star Code is a non-profit organization focused on empowering young men of color by providing them with the necessary skills and opportunities to succeed in the technology sector. The organization aims to attract, prepare, and place these individuals in tech careers, addressing the systemic opportunity gap they face. Through mentorship, industry exposure, and intensive training in computer science, All Star Code equips participants with the knowledge and experience required for full-time employment in technology companies. By fostering a foundation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the organization promotes economic opportunity and encourages financial independence and social mobility within underserved communities.