U.S. Chamber Partners with Oasis Academy, First International School for Gifted Orphans

Achieving Opportunity

The Oasis Academy is the world’s first nonprofit international school for gifted youth who have endured foster care, homelessness, trafficking, or orphanhood. These youth have already demonstrated extraordinary resilience, and when matched with opportunity, they create transformational success.

Unleashing Potential

The Oasis Academy develops leaders, reformers, and visionaries who will shape a better future, transforming countless lives for future generations.

Launching Extraordinary Futures

The Oasis Academy identifies and invests in high-potential youth, equipping them with the education, community, tools, and opportunities to thrive so that they can become the next generation of CEOs, innovators, and changemakers.

This initiative is not a charity model; it is a launch pad.

While most programs help youth survive, Oasis is built to help them grow. Here, no matter what has happened in their past, students discover that they can heal, live abundantly, and create global impact.

Scaling a Global Model

With a flagship campus in Hawaii hosting youth from around the world, the Academy is scaling to serve more than a thousand students across future campuses in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City.

Seeking Global Alliances

The Oasis Academy is seeking to partner internationally with more non-governmental organizations, agencies, churches, and businesses to identify promising youth who want to grow as learners and leaders.

Defining Orphans

Orphans are children whose parents are absent due to death, neglect, or the inability to provide care, leaving them without the stable parental support all children deserve to grow, thrive, and reach their full potential.

Joining Us

Help build a global community that connects extraordinary youth to pathways of promise.

Contact us at admissions@theoasisacademy.org to obtain information about scholarships and nominating a student.

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About the author

Michael Billet

Michael Billet, director of policy research for Employment Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, keeps members and internal Chamber policy staff abreast of pending labor, immigration, and health care legislation, as well as federal regulatory and subregulatory activities. He is also responsible for planning the Chamber’s annual workplace and community wellness forum.

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