Over the course of 2015, a group of community partners came together to design a youth employment and engagement initiative that could be a model of what the City’s YouthWorks program could be if employers, nonprofits, and young people within a neighborhood worked together on strengthening the employment experience, from recruitment and training to mentoring and ongoing civic engagement with the youth and their families. Calling itself the Southeast Youth Jobs Collaborative, this group includes Southeast CDC, Banner Neighborhoods, Creative Alliance, Breath of God Church, The Intersection, Friends of Patterson Park, Living Classrooms Foundation, Patterson Park Audubon Center, and Patterson Park Public Charter School. The Collaborative aims to increase the number of youth that they employ among their organizations by one-third in the summer of 2016, to 76 youth, through a comprehensive program that provides work experience, skills training, educational, relational, and personal development and mentoring. This grant provided funds to five of the members of the collaborative to support their efforts to develop new ways of working together to make their summer YouthWorks employment programs more cost efficient in order to employ more youth.