Partners

Give Back’s college partners provide significant financial support to our students through scholarships, grants, and discounted fees. But that’s only part of the story. Our partners provide a network of support services for our students often including additional counseling, academic advising, tutoring and occasionally dedicated workspaces and staff. Our partner colleges know that getting to college isn’t the answer, getting through college is what is important and Give Back, with the help of our partner schools has one of the best success rates in the country with over 75% of the students we send to college graduating within 5 years.

Give Back works with hundreds of middle and high schools around the country to identify and enroll students in the program. We are looking for students who have overcome significant adversity and who have the drive to change the direction of their lives. We couldn’t find these students (and they would have a hard time finding us) without the help of their teachers, guidance counselors, advisory and administrators. Many of our best referral partners are individuals within a school who know and care enough about their students to help them get the hand-up they need to be successful.

Give Back loves to partner with local youth organizations to help serve students who need extra support. Many of these organizations start building relationships with these students early in life and continue working with them into their teen years. Many of these organizations provide programming, support and coaching that is very similar to Give Back.

Unfortunately, much of the federal, state and even private money that funds these programs is not available to help support the same students once they turn 18 or graduate from high school. Our partnerships with these groups allow us to continue their efforts past high school, through a post-secondary education and into their early adult years. Partners often come and join us at college graduations to celebrate the culmination of the work they started in that student’s early years.

Give Back’s focus on career exploration, develop and training provide a wide range of opportunities for businesses to contribute to the program. While some of these partners do provide financial support to Give Back, many more provide their time and expertise to host career days or job shadowing events.

Many business owners have made career presentations to our students or provided paid internships or work opportunities. Some of our business partners have organized community drives to meet the needs of our students with school supplies, hygiene products or clothing needs for our children. Others have sponsored books and fees for a student with a specific need. We even have business partners who help recruit students into the program by sharing information about Give Back with their customers and employees.

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