Foster to Fiber
Workforce pilot · San Antonio · 2026
At eighteen, the system lets go. This one holds on.
Thousands of young people age out of foster care every year with no family and no address. Foster to Fiber trains twelve of them in San Antonio for fiber and data-centre work, and stays until it holds.
What the lab did
Four jobs.
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Infrastructure
A fast one-page site with a working intake. The Get Involved form writes straight to a database, tested end to end before launch. - 02
R&D
We built the case from public data and cited every figure on the page: federal foster-care counts, labour statistics, Texas DFPS. - 03
User experience
One story, one action. No donation maze and no jargon. - 04
Distribution
A single link the founders can put in front of employers, funders and the city.
What it moved
People, culture, money.
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Social
Twelve young people in the pilot cohort, with support that lasts past the training.
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Cultural
Changes who gets pictured in a data-centre job.
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Economic
Connects a local shortage of fiber workers to people who need a first career.