Why Your Gift Matters

Everyone deserves the chance to thrive not just survive, your gift can truly change a life. This October, Merge Opportunities will launch its Transform a Life Program, creating career pathways for 20 motivated young adults, and we need your support to make it happen.

What Your Gift Provides

Your gift fuels the essentials: from safe transportation to job interviews and training sessions, to hands-on workshops that build skills and confidence, to one-on-one coaching and technical certifications that prepare our candidates for sustainable, living-wage careers.

Beyond Jobs: Building Futures

But what you’re really providing is preparation, confidence, purpose, guidance, motivation, and opportunity. Your support doesn’t just create jobs, it builds futures. Together, we can turn hundreds of success stories into thousands, proving that talent thrives when opportunity strikes.

About Merge Opportunities

Merge Opportunities is a Long Beach–based nonprofit that prepares system-impacted and underserved young adults across LA and Orange County for sustainable careers through training, mentorship, and apprenticeships. Our participants, typically ages 18–28, are transitioning out of foster care, navigating reentry, or overcoming barriers from low-income environments. In just three years, we’ve successfully placed nearly 300 candidates, including 98 so far this year alone, and we are honored and excited to help so many more eager young adults take the next step toward a brighter future.