Beauty & Wellness Program
Training in hair, makeup, barbering and making soap and skin care products. Some participants go on to rent a chair in a salon or sell their own products.
Discover Potential | Develop Skills | Create Opportunities
Uncovering Potential. Empowering Possibilities.
Skills training and mentoring for young people in underserved communities, with a path to earning from what they learn.
Who we are
A pipeline for untapped talent
Harnessed Potential finds and develops talent among young people in underserved communities. We run practical skills training, mentoring, creative challenges and showcases, and we help participants take their first steps as entrepreneurs, so untapped potential turns into real skills and confidence.
Teaching a skill is where we start. What we care about is what that skill makes possible.
Read our promiseOur approach
How we work
- DiscoverWe identify talents and interests within underserved communities.
- TrainPractical training led by mentors who know the craft.
- CreateTime and space to practice and make real things.
- ShowcaseCreative challenges and showcases where participants present their work.
- EmpowerHelp turning a skill into steady income or a small business.
Youth Skills & Empowerment Initiative
Program highlights
We believe potential does not come in one form, and neither should opportunity.
Fashion & Design Program
Learn to design, cut and sew clothes, and to make bags and accessories that people want to buy.
Creative Enterprise Program
Beadwork and handmade crafts, plus how to price your pieces and sell them.
Food & Culinary Skills Program
Baking and cooking skills, along with what you need to know to sell food safely and run a small food business.
Trades & Entrepreneurship Program
Other practical skills that people will pay for, chosen based on what each community needs, along with the basics of running a business.
From our programs
Meet our wig and makeup trainees
A look inside one of our wig and makeup training sessions in the Beauty & Wellness Program.
Get involved
Help turn potential into possibility
There are four ways to support the young people in our programs. Pick the one that suits you.
- Donate
Give once or every month to pay for training and materials.
- Volunteer
Teach what you know or mentor a young person.
- Sponsor
Fund a program or an event through your business or organization.
- Become a patron
Give every month and get regular updates on what your support pays for.