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
Creating Structure in Times of Uncertainty
Times are complicated. You are stressed by deadlines, and there’s so much happening. Living through this pandemic, your days may lack structure and your academic performance and mental health are affected. We’d like to help you create structure within the uncertainty that surrounds us.
The Whitney Point Resource Center
Partner school, Whitney Point High School is no exception. Located in northern Broome County, NY, Whitney Point HS is committed to providing high-quality education and professional development to its students.
A Powerful Partnership: The Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation
On January 30, representatives from Goals and Assists — the partnership between Give Something Back and the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation, presented a $500,000 check to Neumann University that would pre-pay scholarships for students in need. Learn more about the partnership.
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.
