Youth Transportation Organization

Yoots strives to offer under-served children access to the same amazing external education, athletic and arts programs that many children experience daily. Providing transportation solves a "last mile" problem. The healthcare, arts, outdoors and sports programs all exist, but getting youth to their appointments, games, opportunities is a constant battle. Our mission is to eliminate transportation as a barrier to equity for low income and underrepresented youth.

Yoots has partnered with San Fransisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to build a fund to offer free field trips to 400,000+ students per year.

Yoots has access to tech company employee charter buses (including driver, fuel and insurance) that we "rent" to our partners for only $250/day- saving our partners over $1000 per charter.

We have begun to build a fleet of passenger vans, for rent by non profit partners and title one schools for 75% off of market rates. We work with our partners to offer driver training for their staffs.

Lastly, we apply for grants that focus entirely on transportation costs, and distribute these funds to our non profit partners. We also handle the logistics of entire trips- finding, vetting and negotiating with transportation vendors for the best prices.

Yoots has been building our capacity since 2017. We have established relationships with a large number of transportation providers, as well as the school districts and non profit and community organizations that need access to them.

In 4 years, we have become the "go-to" nonprofit organization in facilitating transportation for low-income youth in the SF Bay Area.

In our discussions with leaders in the youth development space, transportation always seems to be one of the top barriers to getting kids engaged in even some of the most basic activities available to their peers. Yoots believes it is in the position to be a catalyst for finding the resources, the funding, and the legal structures for supplying affordable transportation to outdoor organizations serving under-served youth. We have created a vision, sustainable business model and a strategic to plan to deliver transportation solutions to life changing programs in the outdoors.

Since 2017 we have paid and arranged for transportation for thousands of youth. We have brought children hundreds of miles to their doctor appointments, partnered with the United Negro College Fund to transport over 100 students from around the US on their tour of tech companies in Silicon Valley. Helped dozens of organizations gain access to low priced transportation to explore the coast, the Redwoods, museums and much more.

Our newly formed partnership with BART is ready to bear fruit, as soon as the world is safe to re-open.