High schools & school districts
Career-connected learning embedded into the school day, including driver’s education and CDL pathways.
Education · Workforce · Transportation
Opportunity starts here.
Drive Forward Academy designs and delivers career-connected learning, capacity-building, and workforce initiatives that open pathways to careers, credentials, entrepreneurship, and economic mobility.
Education & workforce development · Bronx, NY
Connecting education to opportunity
We serve adults and students at every stage of their journey — entering the workforce for the first time, rebuilding after a setback, or pivoting toward a new chapter.
01 — What we do
Design
We build education and workforce programs aligned to partner goals.
02 — What we do
Facilitate
We deliver professional learning and technical assistance.
03 — What we do
Implement
We deliver, not just plan.
Who we serve
We partner with organizations that move people into work
Government agencies
Contracted workforce programs delivered to specification, with outcomes reported back.
Nonprofits & community organizations
Curriculum, facilitation, and technical assistance that extends what your team can deliver.
Employers & corporations
Screened, trained candidates and a talent pipeline built around the roles you need filled.
Our programs
A full range of career-connected training
Six-plus key areas — meeting people where they are and equipping them with what employers demand.
Career exploration & job readiness
Structured exposure to high-demand industries, plus the workplace habits that keep a first job.
Professional & leadership development
Communication, workplace etiquette, and conflict resolution — the skills that turn a job into a career.
Entrepreneurship & financial literacy
Budgeting, credit, and investing alongside the business fundamentals of running a transportation company.
Adult education services
Professional development, entrepreneurship, and clear pathways into transportation work.
CDL & commercial driver training
Class A and Class B, ELDT-certified, twelve weeks from paperwork to road test.
Reentry & second-chance pathways
Trauma-informed, wraparound support for justice-impacted people entering the workforce.
Custom curriculum design
Built for partners, to your goals, delivered by our facilitators or handed off to your team.
What we deliver
Workforce solutions that deliver measurable outcomes
Our work spans career-connected learning, workforce development, professional learning, curriculum development, technical assistance, capacity building, community engagement, and economic mobility.
Completion
Increased participant completion and engagement
Readiness
Improved workforce readiness and skill attainment
Pathways
Defined pathways into employment
Pipeline
Strengthened talent pipelines
Who we are
Built on access, community, and integrity
Drive Forward Academy is a Bronx-based education and workforce development organization. We serve adults and students at every stage of their journey — entering the workforce for the first time, rebuilding after a setback, or pivoting toward a new chapter.
Grounded in community and driven by purpose, we deliver hands-on, culturally responsive programming that builds confidence, capability, and lasting economic mobility.
Start here
We look forward to welcoming you to Drive Forward Academy.
Tell us where you are starting from and we will match you to the right program — in one quick call or text.