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Fair Chance Futures

2026 - Present

Fair Chance Futures opens doors to the AI economy for adults from low-income, high-incarceration communities, preparing job seekers and helping employers rethink hiring.

Founded in 2020, Fair Chance Futures runs free, full-time AI career programs inside leading universities, starting with Columbia in New York and USC in Los Angeles. Fellows deliver projects for real employers, earn a university-issued credential, and build relationships with coaches and mentors who open doors, followed by two years of coaching after they’re hired. Fair Chance Futures also trains companies to recruit, hire, and retain talent from the communities it serves.

Arbor Rising is partnering with the Fair Chance Futures management team on a number of key deliverables, including: 

  • Theory of change — clarifying the population served, scope of intervention, progress milestones and target long-term outcomes

$125K

IN UNRESTRICTED FUNDING FROM ARBOR RISING

TBD

HOURS OF CAPACITY-STRENGTHENING CONSULTING

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“Arbor Rising brings something few funders offer: the kind of hands-on strategic partnership that helps ambitious companies scale, but that nonprofits rarely receive. With Arbor Rising alongside our team and incoming board, I can see a realistic path to building Fair Chance Futures into a national organization, and the room to dream even bigger.”

Aedan Macdonald

Executive Director

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