Partner With Us
Your company can change the trajectory of a life.
Urban Coders builds partnerships that work for both sides: students get exposure, internships, and funding; partners get measurable community impact, a talent pipeline, and outcomes worth reporting.
Building partnerships across
Ways to Partner
Six ways in. All of them measurable.
Internships & Mentorship
Host interns, match mentors, run mock interviews. Your people, changing a trajectory in an afternoon a month.
Scholarships & Cohorts
Fund a named scholarship or sponsor an entire cohort through a full program cycle, with outcome reporting.
Equipment & Technology
Laptops, software licenses, lab equipment. Close the hardware gap between our students and their futures.
Employee Volunteering
Career coaching, financial literacy workshops, coding instruction — structured programs your ERG can plug into.
Event Sponsorship
Career fairs, hackathons, the parent summit, financial literacy nights, the annual gala, the 5K.
Union & Trade Pipelines
Direct pipelines from our career development program into apprenticeships and skilled trade employment.
Consulting
Thirty years of practice, available to your institution.
Martin consults with the institutions responsible for the students he spent his career serving — bringing the playbook that made Lehman YABC a national reference point for dropout recovery.
Request a ConsultationSchool Districts
Program design and turnaround strategy for over-aged, under-credited populations — from the founding leader of a YABC that graduated thousands.
Nonprofits & Foundations
Program evaluation, outcome design, and advisory support for organizations serving disconnected youth.
State Departments & Universities
Policy consultation and professional development grounded in three decades of practice, not theory.
Book Martin
A voice that's been in the room and on the block.
Keynotes, professional development, and panels — from an educator featured in TIME Magazine and on ABC 7, and the author of The Hood Lied To Me.
Need Help?
One form. We'll call you.
No phone trees. No runaround. Tell us where your family is stuck, and someone who has spent thirty years inside the system will call you back with real options.