
Our Partnerships

Cultivating Youth operates inside of Motivation Team Athletic Academy, a full-service athletic facility. Cultivating Youth also partners with Motivation Team to provide the fitness, physical activity, nutrition and mentorship portion of Cultivating Youth's program.

Tulane scholars partner to gain hands-on work/career experience as a part of their service-based learning. In return, Cultivating Youth receives assistance in different academic subjects, curriculums, systems, skills and career specialties!
Operation Restoration (OR) supports Cultivating Youth mission by providing grant funding to its program. This partnership also allows Cultivating Youth + Motivation Team Athletic Academy to provide nutrition education and fitness to the youth and parents enrolled in OR's program.
Educating the public on civil and human rights while restoring the rights of those with convictions. Supports with consulting and provides financial support to our program.

Agent of Safety & Justice Change (SJC). Executive Director (Mack) is a member of the Change Agent Institute. This Institute is a cohort of system & community members to establish community engagement that creates a blueprint for a safe and just New Orleans.

Work with the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center (Youth Study). Go into the juvenile detention center 2 days per week to provide boxing, cardio fitness, physical activities, nutrition education and mentoring. The mentoring approach focuses on restoration, advocacy and future planning.
Partner with DBI to provide youth mentoring, self-defense, and physical fitness to their youth. Cultivating Youth's Executive Director works with DBI on a prison-to-family pipeline that provides relationship restoration, proposes bills that will positively affect those incarcerated and their loved one, advocate for youth and parents who need support navigating the legal system, etc.
Provide meals for Cultivating Youth summer programs.
Provide financial support to Cultivating Youth's summer program by providing scholarships for youth to attend.

Cultivating Youth's partnership with the Civil Air Patrol allows CY to incorporate STEM into the curriculum through hands-on aviation, cyber, and space curriculum kits.