WHAT IS STRIVE?

Strive for College is an innovative college mentoring program that connects motivated, low-income high school students with undergraduate mentors, who guide them through the college application process and into enrollment at four-year universities and colleges, providing them with opportunities and resources to break the cycle of poverty forever.

FEATURED FACT

Every year, more than 200,000 low-income students graduate from high school in America ready to go to college – but do not.

Source Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, Empty Promises: The Myth of College Access in America, Washington, D.C., 2002

Letter from Our Founder

Dear Friend:

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to our website. Whether you are a college student, volunteer, supporter, or organization, we invite you to explore this site and our program. We are always open to collaboration and encourage you to contact us at any time with questions.

I am confident that after browsing our website, you will see Strive’s potential to create national social change. We believe that Strive can have a profound impact on the socio-economic diversity of student bodies at four-year universities and colleges throughout the country.

Strive’s conception and future are based on a simple idea: students at four-year colleges and universities—having just gone through the admissions process themselves—have both the resources and knowledge to guide those high school students who do not possess these same resources through the college admissions process. My team and I invite you to contact us via e-mail or telephone to discuss how you and/or your organization can work with us to help bright, motivated low-income students attend college and break the cycle of poverty in their families forever.

Welcome.

Michael J. Carter
Founder, President, & CEO