Through The Futures Fund, a STEAM education and workforce development program, we train middle and high school students for the jobs of the future. The ten-week program is administered every spring and fall by highly trained industry professionals to build a sustainable ecosystem of economic empowerment and development with youth. In the Digital Arts program, students learn current computer coding languages such as CSS, HTML, Java, Ruby, and Python. In the Visual Arts program, students train with photographers gaining skills and insight unavailable elsewhere. In addition to hard skills, students learn 21st century soft job skills, such as critical and creative thinking, professional communication, effective collaboration, problem solving, analysis with evidential support, project management, and public speaking. By developing these skills early, students are set on a path to secondary education, or a career in growing industries with higher earning potential. To date, our graduates have generated $25,000 in revenue with paid internships and have launched their own start-up businesses in web design, photography, clothing, and social media marketing. These programs are committed to building sustained economic development and a reduction of poverty.