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It takes commitment and ingenuity to run successful campaigns to get your friends and classmates to make an education plan for life after high school. PeerForward’s 100 teams of Peer […]
It takes commitment and ingenuity to run successful campaigns to get your friends and classmates to make an education plan for life after high school. PeerForward’s 100 teams of Peer […]
Moises Urena, now a SUNY student, came to believe he could go to college after attending a PeerForward workshop. There, he was not only inspired to seek higher education, but […]
Next fall, Izzy, a senior and Peer Leader at Lake Wales Charter High School, is heading to Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. She earned a tennis scholarship and looks forward to […]
We are honored to be featured in the prestigious Stanford Social Innovation Review for our recent work redeveloping our business model to serve more students. The article focuses on two […]
PeerForward notes with great respect the passing of Eugene Lang, an investor who made a spontaneous promise to students in a Harlem school to pay for their college education. “Mr. […]
College Summit Volunteer Joseph Tavares recently shared why he travels from his work base of Jakarta, Indonesia to donate his time and talents assisting College Summit summer workshops each year. […]
As part of the FedEx Cares initiative, FedEx has provided PeerForward with a $50,000 grant to support its innovative program to assist students from low-income communities across America achieve their […]
In reading the recent coverage around the college admission season it’s easy to think that there is one educational path whose most urgent obstacle occurs in the 12th grade, when high school seniors confront the daunting acceptance rates of the nation’s most elite colleges.
In July, First Lady Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher initiative and Better Make Room campaign invited two College Summit Peer Leaders to join fellow college-bound students from across the country who have overcome substantial obstacles to reach a higher education. They were hosted at the White House on July 19.
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