Every program is free to every participant, taught live by working professionals, and aligned to an occupation on the Workforce Solutions Capital Area Approved Training Occupations list (effective May 5, 2025).
Delivered 100% online — participants attend from anywhere with reliable internet and a computer.
Live, instructor-led online sessions on each module, supervised build labs for hands-on practice, and supervised internship-style projects that produce real work product.
Enrollment is closed — participants are referred by partner organizations under written agreements. Programs are not advertised or open to the general public.
$0 to every participant — financed by a party other than the student. Participants ages 14–17 enroll with parental or guardian consent.
Participants learn to plan and deliver AI-enabled digital marketing for small businesses — brand building, content creation, websites, social media, SEO and AI-search optimization, paid advertising, and analytics — and build a public portfolio of real work as they go. The program pairs weekly live instruction with supervised build labs and internship-style client projects.
Program goal: Each participant completes a working marketing portfolio and the skills to perform entry-level marketing-specialist work. No job, income, or business result is guaranteed.
| Length | ≈ 24 weeks |
|---|---|
| Clock hours | ≈ 240–480 clock hours |
| Method | 100% online — live instructor-led sessions, supervised build labs, internship-style projects |
| Cost to participant | $0 — tuition-free (financed by a party other than the student) |
Participants learn small-business bookkeeping and accounting fundamentals — recording transactions, invoicing, expense tracking, reconciliations, and cash-flow management — using the software tools small businesses actually run on. Instruction is applied: participants keep a working set of books as they learn.
Program goal: Each participant can maintain a basic set of books and perform entry-level bookkeeping and accounting-clerk work. No job, income, or business result is guaranteed.
| Length | ≈ 24 weeks |
|---|---|
| Clock hours | ≈ 240–400 clock hours |
| Method | 100% online — live instructor-led sessions, supervised build labs, internship-style projects |
| Cost to participant | $0 — tuition-free (financed by a party other than the student) |
Participants learn to set up, support, and troubleshoot the software systems and business tools a small organization depends on — help-desk fundamentals, account and workspace setup, common business applications, and basic AI automation and AI-agent support. The program builds practical, customer-facing support skills through supervised labs.
Program goal: Each participant can provide entry-level user support and troubleshoot common small-business software systems. No job, income, or business result is guaranteed.
| Length | ≈ 20 weeks |
|---|---|
| Clock hours | ≈ 200–360 clock hours |
| Method | 100% online — live instructor-led sessions, supervised build labs, internship-style projects |
| Cost to participant | $0 — tuition-free (financed by a party other than the student) |
Participants learn to design, build, and launch fast, professional small-business websites using modern AI-assisted web tools, then maintain and optimize them for search and performance. Each participant builds and launches multiple live sites, including their own, as portfolio pieces.
Program goal: Each participant completes a portfolio of live websites and the skills to perform entry-level web-developer work. No job, income, or business result is guaranteed.
| Length | ≈ 24 weeks |
|---|---|
| Clock hours | ≈ 240–400 clock hours |
| Method | 100% online — live instructor-led sessions, supervised build labs, internship-style projects |
| Cost to participant | $0 — tuition-free (financed by a party other than the student) |
Participants learn the back-office systems and routines that keep a small business running — business communication, scheduling and calendar management, document preparation, records management, spreadsheets, and customer service — with hands-on practice in the tools an administrative professional uses daily.
Program goal: Each participant can perform entry-level administrative-assistant and business operations-support work. No job, income, or business result is guaranteed.
| Length | ≈ 16 weeks |
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| Clock hours | ≈ 160–280 clock hours |
| Method | 100% online — live instructor-led sessions, supervised build labs, internship-style projects |
| Cost to participant | $0 — tuition-free (financed by a party other than the student) |
The Foundation does not solicit or enroll members of the general public. Enrollment is limited to participants referred under partner agreements.
Foster-care, workforce, community-based care, and juvenile-justice organizations refer eligible young people under written agreements with the Foundation. If your organization works with young people who would benefit, we would like to hear from you.
