Background: Comprehensive Youth Development (CYD) helps to transform the lives of New York City’s young people by empowering them to create rewarding futures for themselves and their families by helping them complete high school and succeed in college, advanced training, and the workplace. With a budget of $4M, CYD serves more than 3,500 young people each year, providing a range of services to low-income and underserved NYC public school students and alumni ages 14-24. As well as being direct service providers, CYD actively advocates for the needs of NYC’s young adults with government agencies, funders, and educators. CYD is committed to education as equity - many of the young people they serve are BIPOC and new immigrants, and most are the first in their families to go to college. CYD strongly believes that success for young people occurs when preparation meets opportunity. To that end they provide academic and social support services in three public high schools–...