We Transform Life Outcomes
SailFuture's innovative programs empower hard to reach teens to transform their life outcomes.
SailFuture's innovative programs empower hard to reach teens to transform their life outcomes.
SailFuture Academy Private High School
SailFuture Academy is a tuition-free career preparatory high school that leverages project-based learning and paid apprenticeships to prepare students for the real world.
SailFuture Academy: Middle School Summer Camp Registration
Discover a unique opportunity for your middle schooler to dive into the world of entrepreneurship with SailFuture's Middle School Entrepreneurship Camp!
Over two exciting weeks in July, students will engage in hands-on projects, learning how to craft their own business from the ground up. They'll explore everything from screen printing and product design to personal finance and even water-based boating adventures, all while developing crucial team-building and life skills.
Based in St. Petersburg, FL, SailFuture serves 200 children and families a year through innovative programs ranging from international sailing expeditions to an entrepreneurship high school.
Join a team of passionate leaders who do whatever it takes to help young people transform their life trajectories.
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The SailFuture Academy was selected from a pool of 2,700 innovative schools across the United States.
“The Yass Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding education providers and aims to amplify their work through financial support, collaboration, coaching, encouragement and an extensive mentorship network.”
SailFuture Teaching Life Skills through Sailing
SailFuture Academy is a free, private school in Florida that teaches disadvantaged youth life skills including the art of sailing.
Good Morning America
Free private High School Empowers Students
The program will focus on giving students career skills in a real-life environment.
The Weekly Challenger
National nonprofit ‘pressure-tests’ innovative education choice programs in Florida and beyond
A more recent project is SailFuture Academy, a St. Petersburg foster care agency that is opening a vocational high school this fall for lower-income who have become disengaged in traditional high school settings.
ReImagine Education
Tiny private school aims to boost struggling Pinellas teens
The program will focus on giving students career skills in a real-life environment.
Tampa Bay Times
SailFuture Academy moves into New Building
A project-based high school serving underprivileged students in Pinellas County is enrolling students for its first year in a new building, starting this fall.
WTSP Tampa Bay
SailFuture opens historic Norwood School, prepares youth for success
SailFuture serves teens throughout the St. Petersburg community, and with the purchase and recent redevelopment of the historic Norwood Elementary School, the innovative organization is better equipped to prepare kids for success as adults.
St. Pete Catalyst