Aim For Success Competitors

Futures Without Violence (FUTURES) advances healthier, safer and more prosperous communities. Through innovative programs, award-winning public campaigns, and lasting policy change, FUTURES prevents violence against women and children, expands access to economic opportunity and quality healthcare, creates positive pathways for men and boys, and prepares the next generation of leaders – focused on communities where it’s needed most. With partners across the U.S. and around the world, we are building the future we believe in, together. Learn more at: www.futureswithoutviolence.org.

For over 30 years, Project Success has been transforming thousands of students’ lives through a proven model of innovative experiential learning. Over the course of seven years — beginning in grade 6 and continuing through grade 12 — we engage students in-class through a facilitated curriculum and through local-to-global expeditions, arts programming, and skills-based certificates. Project Success serves more than 16,000 students in Minneapolis and Mankato public middle and high schools each year.

The Mission of Youth Mentoring is to awaken at-risk youth to their power, unique gifts and purpose by matching them with caring adult mentors and placing that “match” within a structured group dynamic that provides the resources youth need to reach productive, conscious adulthood. We further seek to awaken society to the needs, promise and value of this overlooked population Our Vision is of a community where young people are truly seen and not just watched, where society understands and accepts its responsibility in meeting the needs of all young people, and where young people bring their gifts back into their communities as productive members of society. Youth Mentoring's programs include worksite mentoring, community based mentoring, rites of passage, surfing, film academy, ECHO (deep converstations in a safe space, much like group therapy), life skills support along with various other resources to help our kids navigate their lives once they've graduated or leave our program. Our results include a consistent 95% plus, graduation rate (double the norm for our population of kids). Of those graduates, 94% have gone on to 2 to 4-year colleges!! https://linktr.ee/youthmentoringconnection