Collaboration partner
Girls Trip Society
Retreats and trips designed as a woman's first leadership travel experience — travel, networking, and empowerment in one itinerary.
About the partnership
Exposure creates opportunity
Opportunity shouldn’t depend on your zip code
Project Takeoff removes the barriers between people and the experiences that change lives — travel, education, mentorship, financial empowerment, and leadership development.
501(c)(3) pending
Status
2025
Founded
2026
First cohorts
4
Programs
We exist to remove the barriers to opportunity. Our mission is to expand access to education, mentorship, financial empowerment, leadership development, and transformational travel — so that financial circumstances never decide who gets to grow. We fund the experience, then pair it with the mentor, the cohort, and the skills that turn it into economic mobility and generational success.
Our flagship program
Takeoff Youth
Youth leadership, mentoring, and scholarships — a student's first flight, first college tour, first passport, first sports program.
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Our impact
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James
Every experience we fund is paired with the relationships and skills that make it compound: a mentor, a cohort, a professional network, a budget, a business plan. That is how a single trip becomes a career, and a career becomes generational change.
5,000
Participants targeted in five years
4
Programs across the portfolio
100%
Of scholarship gifts fund participant access
What access costs
Every gift is priced to a real barrier we remove. This is what your money opens up.
- $95A youth passport and documents
- $312A child's first flight
- $250A student's seat on a college tour
- $1,400An entrepreneur's first business conference
- $5,000A grant that changes a small business
What we do
The program portfolio
Youth leadership + mentoring
Takeoff Youth
Youth leadership, mentoring, and scholarships — a student's first flight, first college tour, first passport, first sports program.
Financial literacy + wealth building
TAKEOFF FINANCES
Financial literacy and wealth-building programming rooted in community and faith-based settings, taught where people already gather.
Career readiness + workforce development
Takeoff Careers
Preparing participants for their first networking event, first interview, and first industry conference — and paying for them to get there.
Entrepreneurship + small business
Takeoff Business Lab
Entrepreneurship and small business support, including grants that can change the trajectory of a participant's business.
All programs
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“A child who has never left their zip code cannot aspire to what they have never seen.”
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Your tax-deductible gift funds scholarship seats, travel, mentorship, financial education, and business grants for people who could not otherwise participate.
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