New Door created 600 jobs for at-risk youth in the last decade and is expanding to help even more youth this decade.

Highlights include:

86% of graduates go on to new jobs or higher education after New Door job internships.

→ compare to the 24% national unemployment rate for youth ages 16 to 24 (as of September 2011)

100% of previously homeless youth maintain stable housing within a year of program completion.

→ compare to the 5,700 homeless and marginally housed youth in San Francisco each year.

Only 6% of youth involved in New Door with prior criminal backgrounds reoffend.

→ compare to 74% California state recidivism rate for youth (those who reoffend)

72% of youth make educational gains while in the New Door program, including earning GEDs and/or enrolling in college.

→ compare to the 51% of New Door youth who previously dropped out of high school

In 2006 New Door had an independent consultant evaluate the long-term impact of New Door's social enterprise job-training program for the period of 1998 to 2006. Download the social impact report for more information.

Interns celebrating their graduation from New Door's Ally job program.

Our 2010 Results:

208 youth served

92 earned wages as interns in our job training programs

7400 hours of case management were provided for youth interns

103 skill-building workshops were held at New Door

25 local businesses and nonprofits employed youth as Ally partner job sites

362 volunteers engaged in supporting programs

40,093 bicycles or accessories sold or repaired at Pedal Revolution

360,658 shirts, bags and other items printed or embroidered through Ashbury Images