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ACCESS

The mission of ACCESS is to ensure that every Boston Public School student has the financial information and resources necessary to achieve their dream of a higher education. Since its founding in 1985, ACCESS has provided financial aid information and scholarships to thousands of Bostons students, helping them realize their higher education goals and giving them a better foundation for a successful and productive future. Services are provided free of charge and serve students from every public high school and every neighborhood in Boston.

Building Educated Leaders for Life

BELL exists to dramatically increase the academic achievements, self-esteem and life opportunities of children living in low-income, urban communities. BELL currently educates more than 8,000 scholars in 40 public school sites throughout Boston, New York City, Baltimore and Washington D.C., and pursues a goal that 100% of their scholars achieve academic and social proficiency in their formative elementary school years.

Bottom Line

Bottom Line was founded in 1997 to improve the Boston community by helping disadvantaged youth get in to college, graduate from college, and go far in life. Since then, they have helped thousands of students improve their lives and build stronger communities as role models, leaders, parents and friends. Bottom Line is a community-based organization that helps students at the beginning of the college application process and continues to support them until they earn a degree. By giving personalized attention and support to low-income and first-generation-to-college students who are motivated to earn a degree, students who work with Bottom Line are graduating from college at the same rate as the wealthiest and most supported students in the country.

The Center for STEM Education at Northeastern University

The University-wide Center aspires to serve as the connecting link between all the University Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Departments and the School of Education. This will be accomplished in part by consolidating and coordinating existing outreach programs and by creating new ones that will have a significant impact on the STEM pipeline, on STEM teaching and learning in GK-20, on GK-12 STEM outreach, and on STEM Education Research.

GEAR UP

GEAR UP aims to raise post secondary expectations among middle and high school students promote equal access to education, enhance classroom teaching, tutoring and support services and assist students and their families with the college application process. There are several components to this program, including tutoring, adult education, mentoring, a summer youth program, professional development workshops and a health and wellness campaign.

Let's Get Ready

LGR expands access to college in America by mobilizing, equipping, and empowering a movement of college students helping high school students get to college. Through a network of campus and community-based chapters, Let's Get Ready's trained college student volunteers provide disadvantaged students with intensive SAT preparation, college advising, and the powerfully relevant role-models and mentors they need to succeed.

Summer Search

The mission of Summer Search is to find resilient low-income high school students and inspire them to become responsible and altruistic leaders by providing year-round mentoring, life-changing summer experiences, college advising, and a lasting support network.

The Steppingstone Foundation

The goal of The Steppingstone Academy in Boston is to prepare the Scholars to get into, and succeed at, top independent and public exam schools. Founded in 1990, The Steppingstone Foundation is a non-profit organization that develops and implements programs that prepare urban schoolchildren for educational opportunities that lead to college.

TERI

TERI's mission is to increase opportunity and access to higher education for all students. In addition to loan guarantee programs, TERI supports national, regional, and local activities that assist individuals in obtaining information and guidance about higher education opportunities. TERI also works to improve the education system to increase access to higher education for all students.