Youth Uprising (YU) aims to serve as a neighborhood hub, offering East Oakland youth programs designed to increase their physical and mental wellbeing, community connections, educational attainment, and career achievement. To provide real-world employment experiences, it has four social enterprises, which include YU Eat (Corner’s Café), an onsite internet restaurant/café and catering service; YU Count, which offers IT, data input, enrichment, and analysis services to businesses and non-profits; YU Create, a media production company offering video production, soundtrack creation, and graphics for organizations and companies; and YU Work, a green cleaning business that provides janitorial, facade and neighborhood improvement services. Each year, YU provides services to nearly 2,000 youth and places 200 of its participants in jobs.