We are proud to announce that Rise Together is partnering with Hoos First Look to provide first-generation, low-income students with individualized weekly virtual mentorship, college admissions, scholarship and financial aid guidance.
Our goal is to ensure that every striving young adult has access to the guidance, resources, support, mentors and opportunities necessary to take charge of their education, career, life, and dreams.
Rise Together Nonprofit Programs
Rise Together
Rise Together is a nonprofit, outcome-driven team mentoring program that connects University of Virginia (UVA) students with first-generation and low-income K-12 youth in the Commonwealth. Rise Together mentoring teams provide weekly targeted academic support, social-emotional learning, workforce and college readiness, and service learning opportunities designed to lessen barriers to postsecondary attainment, support teachers, and build novel collaborative relationships between UVA and the community.
Keys to College
Rise Together has created programming that fully engages students remotely and has yielded one hundred percent freshman acceptance rate into premier universities across the nation. Now it is time to make Rise Together’s innovative college search and application guidance available to parents and educators. Keys to College is a comprehensive program that offers a step-by-step-curriculum, series of podcasts, instructive college student testimonials, and library of resources that demystify the daunting college and financial aid search process for families.
Hoos Rise Together
Hoos Rise Together is a 12-week virtual mentoring initiative that provides first-generation low-income high school seniors around the country with virtual mentorship, college readiness support, and college, scholarship and financial aid guidance. The program is designed to provide UVA student mentors with weekly intensive trainings and professional development needed effectively guide students towards their postsecondary aspirations.
Rise Together-Boston
Through Rise Together’s partnership with Northeastern University and Charlestown High School in Boston, a dynamic team of Northeastern University undergraduates and Torch Scholars lead low-income seniors through all aspects of their college search, application and admission process. Staggering student success and program outcomes are a result of the collaborative efforts of Josette Tenues, Charlestown High School Guidance Counselor, and Jennifer Schoen, Director of Opportunity Scholarships and Outreach Programs at Northeastern University. If you would like to bring Rise Together programming to your city, then please reach out to rise4realchange@gmail.com!
Rise Together
Rise Together is a nonprofit, outcome-driven team mentoring program that connects University of Virginia (UVA) students with first-generation and low-income K-12 youth in the Commonwealth. Rise Together mentoring teams provide weekly targeted academic support, social-emotional learning, workforce and college readiness, and service learning opportunities designed to lessen barriers to postsecondary attainment, support teachers, and build novel collaborative relationships between UVA and the community.
College Guidance
The Rise Together College Guidance Program is a two-pronged approach designed to guide 9-12th grade students from high school to college. The first component is an intensive individual college guidance program focusing on course selection, standardized test preparation, college search, and application support. The second component is engaging Rise Together Group Seminars and service learning projects, which allow students to work collaboratively to develop a growth mindset, personal determination, and academic/personal confidence.
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Why Rise Together?
Every young adult deserves the chance to be seen and educated on a personal level, develop a service-oriented and growth mindset, unlock their talents, and realize their potential and dreams. Rise Together believes that we all have a shared responsibility to educate the next generation of global leaders, so our organization is committed to complementing and enhancing the efforts of families, educators, school districts, and employers nationwide.
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