EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION
Year Up recognizes that effective collaboration is essential to successful organizations. We work closely with more than 100 corporate foundations, community-based organizations, training organizations, local high schools, and community and four-year colleges. Year Up is truly enriched by the contributions of our many partners, including:

Alta Communications - We are extremely grateful to Alta Communications, a Boston-based venture capital firm, which so generously incubated Year Up from concept to reality in the early years. In addition to providing temporary office space, Alta has provided capital donations, volunteers, and computers! We are also honored to have Timothy Dibble, Alta's Managing General Partner, as the chairman of our Board of Directors.

ART CONNECTION - The Art Connection is a nonprofit organization that expands public access to visual art through a unique art donation and placement program. Working with artists and collectors who wish to donate artwork to public and nonprofit organizations, The Art Connection acts as an art clearinghouse, simplifying the donation process and offering a wide range of original works for selection by qualifying nonprofit agencies in Greater Boston. Year Up is grateful for the beautiful artwork donated by Art Connection and its participating local artists to our 4th floor Boston Learning Community. Drop by the Boston site and see our growing art collection.

Cambridge College - Year Up has an innovative agreement with Cambridge College that allows our graduates to dual enroll in Year Up and Cambridge College and receive up to 18 college credits. The Cambridge College partnership also enables us to cost effectively operate a second site in Cambridge, MA.

ipswitch - Through a unique partnership that combines sponsorships, software donations, guest trainers, and mentors, Ipswitch and Year Up are working together to prepare more urban young adults for professional careers in IT services.s

Jobs For The Future - Our strategic partnership with Jobs For the Future provides significant help with best practices, organizational scaling, and evaluation. Through this relationship, we develop, document and refine an operating model that can ultimately achieve both scale and systemic impact. We are working actively with JFF to define and execute a five-year evaluation methodology for our program.

Johnson & Wales University - Year Up Providence has an innovative agreement with Johnson & Wales University that allows its students to receive up to 14.5 college credits if they enroll in Johnson & Wales after graduating from Year Up. Johnson & Wales is also an excellent partner in many other ways, including: providing library access to all Year Up students, teaching various workshops on-site at Year Up, and getting involved with the program as volunteer mentors and guest speakers.

microsoft - Our strategic partnership with Microsoft allows Year Up to be on the cutting edge of technology. Through a combination of software donations, financial support, guest trainers and volunteers, the growing partnership will provide a strong foundation to Year Up's national growth.

Pace University - Year Up New York City has an innovative agreement with Pace Unversity that allows its students to dual enroll in Year Up and Pace University and receive up to 12 college credits upon graduation.

The Society for Information Management(SIM) - Year Up and SIM have established a close partnership. As one of SIM's Boston Outreach Partners, Year Up benefits in several ways. SIM provides volunteers and internship contacts from its membership of experienced IT professionals. SIM has also sponsored a Year Up student and organized a fundraising golf tournament on Year Up's behalf and provided briefcases for graduates.

Established in 1968, the Society for Information Management (SIM) is the premier network for IT leaders with 28 chapters and nearly 3,000 members. SIM provides resources and programs to develop existing and emerging IT leaders in their organizations. SIM has also sponsored a Year Up student, organized a fundraising golf tournament on Year Up's behalf and provided briefcases for graduates.

Teen Empowerment - Year Up has worked with Teen Empowerment to adopt relevant aspects of the Teen Empowerment model including our admissions and behavior management process. Teen Empowerment (www.teenempowerment.org) is is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1992, that employs youth ages 14-20 to work as catalysts for social and institutional change through organizing in their schools and communities using an innovative youth empowerment model. Their mission is to realize the potential of inner-city youth to build healthier and safer communities and schools. Special thanks to Executive Director Stanley Pollack and Doug Ackley for helping Year Up to be what it is today.

World Community Grid - Our partnership with World Community Grid allows Year Up to use its surplus computing resources to benefit society at large. For more information about our efforts and the World Community Grid project, click here.