FreshOut is a culturally intelligent economic empowerment ecosystem helping Black and Brown young adults move from uncertainty into ownership — building credit, launching businesses, accessing capital, and creating generational wealth on their own terms.
Too many of our young people are released into adulthood with no blueprint — fresh out of high school, college, foster care, or the system, and handed a clean slate the world calls opportunity. FreshOut turns that moment of starting over into a moment of building forward.
We equip Black and Brown young adults with the financial literacy, entrepreneurial capacity, capital access, and ownership mindset to break cycles of economic precarity — and to build generational wealth in their families and their communities.
This is not a program. It is a passage. A school for the things they don't teach in school: credit, capital, ownership, leverage, legacy.
Seven of the hardest transitions into adulthood — from recent grads to foster and justice-system exits to young entrepreneurs. We meet them all.
See who we serve →Sixteen skill pillars, real mentorship, business formation, and a direct path to capital — built as a clear, staged journey.
Explore the program →We track outcomes, not activity. See the targets and the math behind the model.
See our impact →FreshOut's founding cohort begins Q1 2027. We're building this with four kinds of people — the young founders who'll walk through it, the mentors who'll stand beside them, the donors who'll fund the path, and the institutions who'll partner on the infrastructure. Find your door.
Twelve to fifteen seats. $100/week stipend, one assigned mentor, business formation, and a direct path to capital. If you are 17-26 and ready to build forward — this is the door.
applications@freshout.org →Four to six hours a month. Twelve-month commitment. Paid stipend. One assigned mentee, plus a peer community of founding mentors. Industry professionals, financial experts, founders, community elders — we're recruiting now.
mentors@freshout.org →$100 forms one business. $5,200 sponsors a year. $100,000 underwrites a full cohort. Two Founding Partner slots remain at $250K+. Designated gifts deploy 100% to programming.
partners@freshout.org →Banks, CDFIs, school districts, foundations, and corporate partners. We're assembling the infrastructure layer that makes participant outcomes possible — and there's room for the right partners in this founding year.
ecosystem@freshout.org →