Give Something Back
Changing lives, families, and communities—one college scholarship at a time.
Give Something Back (Give Back) provides college scholarships, academic mentoring, and social guidance to students who have faced adversity.
Helping Students Who Need it Most
There are more than 400,000 kids in foster care in the US, and 2.7 million children with a parent who is incarcerated. These youth must overcome severely diminished odds of educational success. Give Back provides special outreach to young people who have faced significant financial hardship and other adversities such as foster care, homelessness, or the incarceration of a parent.
New Book Release:
Give Back Founder Robert Carr’s new book, First Chance, is available now.
First Chance
How Kids With Nothing Can Change Everything
By Robert Owen Carr with Dirk Johnson
Children who experience hardships such as foster care, homelessness, or the incarceration of a parent must overcome countless obstacles on their path to educational success. First Chance explores the remarkable students who, despite considerable adversity, triumph over the odds when given a chance.
Net proceeds will be donated to Give Back.
Mallouk Scholarship Program
Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of Peter and Veronica Mallouk, we are proud to announce our first publicly-funded state, Kansas. To learn more regarding the devoted work of the Mallouks and their support of Give Back’s mission, visit their page here.
Our Partners
Thank you to our valued partners who welcome and support the Give Back scholars.
Recent Blog Posts
‘From One County to Seven States’: Give Back’s Panel at the 2021 National Mentoring Summit
There are scholarships. There are mentoring programs. Give Something Back is both. Since 2003, Give Back has grown from one county to seven states. Our staff from three regions recently discussed best practices, collaboration, and the encouragement of organic growth of mentoring programs at the 2021 National Mentoring Summit. The presentation detailed how to adapt regional mentoring and scale a scholarship model nationally.
Taking Care of your Mind and Body
Give Back is committed to supporting and informing students during these times of uncertainty. The COVID-19 Pandemic may make it impossible for colleges and schools to resume in-person learning in the fall. It would be best if you took care of yourself and your mental health. Here are some tips we learned from our successful mental health session, which recently took place at our Mid-Atlantic Summit.
Launch Your Career with Help from a Professional
Give Back is helping its scholars get launched on their career paths by connecting them to professionals who can help talk them through the process and look at their application materials.
Change a life. Become a Mentor.
With a small time commitment, you can make a big impact.
Shop to Give Back
There are many ways to support Give Back simply by shopping online as you normally would. As an official AmazonSmile charity, Give Back will receive a percentage of purchases on smile.amazon.com. Many other popular retailers are featured on the Give Back Marketplace. Up to 11% of your purchases from those retailers will be donated to Give Back when you shop through the Marketplace link.
