93%
Future relevance
of end-of-class responses said the day’s topic could help their future.
NextGen impact · July 2025–April 2026
The evidence is building.
Students showed up, practiced real skills, and asked for more. This is the clearest snapshot of what the work produced—and where demand is growing.
The topline
One program year.
A lot of signal.
Results below come from Flip-A-Heart’s 2025–2026 impact report and use the sample attached to each measure—not one universal survey group.
- 115
- students supported across programming
- 755
- student, audience, and supporter data points collected
- 400+
- students on waitlists across four schools
- 5+
- additional schools ready for implementation
Engagement & belonging
Young people found
a reason to engage.
The strongest pattern is not just satisfaction. Students connected the content to their futures—and in a smaller attendance-motivation group, to coming to school.
78%
rated the session 4 or 5 out of 5
66%
felt confident using what they learned in real life
76%
said NextGen gave them a reason to come to school*
95%
said the session made them glad they came*
*Attendance-motivation questions were answered by a smaller subset of respondents.
90%+attendance at Green Street Academy, Summer 2025
84%attendance at MERVO, Spring 2026
Skills & next steps
Practice that points
somewhere real.
~80%
Financial literacy average
Across 32 assessment responses; median score was 89%.
69%
Scored 70% or higher
On the financial literacy assessment.
97%
Wanted career connections
Said yes or maybe to meeting people in their career field, among 29 career-plan respondents.
20 / 29
Needed resume support
They lacked a resume, had just started, or wanted help finishing it.
Youth Pitch Day 2025
145
audience votes
3youth business teams took the stage.
$3,600awarded to youth founders at the most recent Pitch Day.
See Youth Pitch Day in picturesA separate evidence set
NextGen in a Maryland DJS setting
One 2026 workshop: 13 anonymous youth exit cards and one independent staff evaluation.
- 78 / 78
- recorded youth outcome ratings were Agree or Strongly Agree
- 10 / 10
- youth who answered wanted more NextGen
- 5 / 5
- independent staff recommendation score
- 6 / 8
- quality dimensions rated 5/5; the other two were 4/5
The 78 figure counts recorded ratings, not 78 individual young people. These DJS findings are reported separately from the 2025–2026 NextGen program-year snapshot above.
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