In ordinary times, we work to connect young people with the caring adults outside their homes who are central to their healthy development—educators, coaches, mentors, counselors, afterschool professi

Last week, America’s Promise Alliance brought together an impressive gathering of leaders from national youth-serving organizations, community organizations, philanthropy, schools, districts, and stat

Being looked over or outright ignored when you know that you have the credentials and a commitment to a company isn’t the best feeling in the world. It’s really degrading to be judged, rejected or not even acknowledged because of your sexual identity.

For over two years, I have reached out to individuals from all walks of life from the reservation. One thing I experienced growing up on the Hopi Reservation, and now have seen firsthand in my work, is that being a younger member of the community comes with its challenges.

Last year, America’s Promise Alliance launched the Power of Youth Challenge to encourage and inspire youth-led service projects around the country.

The experiences of organizations working with Capital Workforce Partners (CWP) exemplify how a focus on youth employment has a lasting, positive impact on the lives of young people, as evidenced in th

A youth’s biggest transition into adulthood, is shifting from high school into the oftentimes scary, “Real World.” From college to studying a trade to entering public service or the military to landin

America’s Promise leads the GradNation Acceleration Initiative, which includes work in three communities and two statewide programs to improve graduation rates for students from varying backgrounds, i

Growing up on the Hopi Reservation, I saw firsthand how few opportunities exist for young people and how difficult it can be to find meaningful employment on the reservation... Now I serve as the Coordinator for the Ancestral Lands Hopi program, I work to understand how to provide that same support for those young people and families who choose to work with me.

Rewind a decade. America’s graduation rate lingered under 75 percent and there was a clear sense that something needed to change. That’s when the GradNation campaign was born to unify and mobilize the nation to respond to the “dropout epidemic.”

Joshua Dantzler is a rising junior in the School of Public Affairs at American University pursuing a degree in political science and a minor in communication studies.

The State of Young People reinforced an important lesson for me:  when working on challenging issues, we must stick to the value of servant leadership.