Talent Is Everywhere. Opportunity Should Be Too.
Opportunity Academy helps San Diego youth build the skills, relationships, and confidence they need for what comes next. Your gift expands access to athletics-based mentorship, financial literacy, career readiness, social-emotional learning, and service experiences.
Opportunity Academy is a San Diego 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN 41-4155845.
Your support in action
Your Gift Opens the Door
Every contribution helps create consistent access to mentorship, practical learning, leadership development, and experiences that prepare young people for life beyond the game.
Learning Tools
Helps provide program materials and learning tools for student-athletes.
Uniform and Gear
Helps equip a student-athlete with an Opportunity Academy uniform and gear.
One Month of Opportunity
Helps provide a month of mentorship and connected FACSS programming.
Consistent Support
Creates dependable, year-round support that helps OA plan and deliver with confidence.
Your gift supports Opportunity Academy’s overall mission and programs where it is needed most.
Why Opportunity Academy
The Gap Is Not Potential. It Is Access.
Young people already carry talent, ambition, and possibility. Opportunity Academy connects that potential to trusted adults, practical knowledge, meaningful experiences, and a community committed to seeing them thrive.
Five pillars. One connected experience.
Financial Literacy
Money management, saving, budgeting, and stronger financial decisions.
Athletics-Based Mentorship
Discipline, belonging, trust, accountability, and relationships that extend beyond sports.
Career Readiness
Exposure to professionals, workplace skills, and pathways students can see themselves pursuing.
Social-Emotional Learning
Communication, self-awareness, resilience, and healthy decision-making.
Service and Civic Engagement
Opportunities to contribute, lead, and understand their role in the community.
Opportunity in motion
Built With Our Community
Opportunity Academy is growing a connected ecosystem around student-athletes and their families throughout San Diego County.
Student-athletes signed up for OA’s 2026–27 cohort.
Student-athletes currently supported through partial or full financial assistance.
FACSS pillars working together to support growth on and off the field.
Sustained impact
Make Opportunity Possible Every Month
Monthly donors help Opportunity Academy provide the consistency young people deserve. Recurring support strengthens programming, expands access, and gives our team the ability to plan responsibly for what comes next.
Fund a Cohort
Your investment can underwrite an entire season of transformation.
Opportunity Academy cohorts run in structured 2-month sessions designed to deliver athletics-based mentorship, financial literacy, career readiness, social-emotional learning, and service leadership experiences.
When you sponsor a cohort, you are not funding an activity.
You are funding stability, mentorship, and measurable growth.
Together, we build leaders, not just participants.
Partner With Opportunity Academy
Community & Corporate Partnerships
We collaborate with schools, nonprofits, businesses, and community organizations that believe in expanding opportunity and access through youth development.
Partnerships may include:
Internship and mentorship opportunities
Service project collaborations
Event Sponsorships, In-kind support and shared resources
Together, we can create pathways for youth to thrive.
More ways to open doors
Choose How You Want to Help
Whether you give, partner, mentor, or contribute resources, you can help create the access young people need to move forward with confidence.
Sponsor a Cohort
Help underwrite a connected season of athletics-based mentorship, financial literacy, career readiness, social-emotional learning, and service experiences.
Ask About Cohort SponsorshipBuild a Partnership
Schools, businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations can create internships, mentorship, service projects, events, and shared-resource opportunities.
Start a Partnership ConversationVolunteer or Mentor
Share your time, experience, and encouragement in ways that strengthen student-athletes and support the OA community.
Tell Us How You Want to HelpGive In Kind
Contribute goods, services, equipment, meals, technology, transportation, or other resources that support program delivery.
View Current NeedsGive with confidence
A Community Investment You Can Trust
Opportunity Academy is a San Diego-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. We are committed to responsible stewardship and protecting donor information.
Explore Donor ResourcesEIN: 41-4155845. Questions about giving? Email info@opportunityacademysd.org.
- Case for Support
- Donor Bill of Rights
- How Your Gift Creates Impact
- Gift Acceptance Policy
Talent is everywhere. Opportunity should be too.
Help Build the Bridge to What Comes Next
Your gift helps San Diego youth access mentorship, practical skills, and experiences designed for life beyond the game.