Listen to his engaging interview with Cantate’s Music Director. Learn about Anthony’s life, struggles, hard work and achievements, good fortune he encounters, his aspirations, and how opera and music entered his life. In a Broken Educational System Serendipity & Good Fortune Crush the Cycle of Poverty It's magical and powerful, Anthony's story, as are all of those stories of successful people who overcame systemic obstacles. The page-turners on our eye-opening stories page reveal that high school and college degrees and upward mobility often come down to the serendipitous appearance of pivotal people at critical moments, and the student scholar’s courage, strength, and persistence that emerges to break through road-blocks and faltering hope and belief on a perilous journey that’s far from mundane. "We have overwhelming odds we have to face and get over as a community . . . I was blessed to be able to,” remarks Anthony when interviewing another fortunate full-scholarship student. Listen to interviews conducted by Anthony, filled with insightful illuminating conversation. Hear students and degreed young adults, at different stages of achievement in their pursuit of upward mobility and fulfilling careers, tell it like it is. Their conversations reveal key worries, financial stress, struggles and critical turning points that lead to hard-earned achievements one-step at a time on their families’ unfamiliar unbeaten path. Put on Your Thinking Cap We need to grow All Out for Change® funds to assist more students in bigger ways: provide more availability to College Prep programs, and to reduce their college debt burdens via Supplemental Scholarship awards. If you know of any businesses, individuals, rotary clubs, small grant-making foundations, or grant-writers who’d like to help make a difference for financially disadvantaged student scholars, please email me. To start replenishing the Funds for 2021-2022 11th & 12 grade scholars donate below The Why Behind What We Do, and How 2021 Charter School Grads Benefited From Donations `“The median weekly pay in 2020 for workers with a bachelor’s degree was $1,305, compared with $938 for those with an associate’s degree and $781 for high school graduates", according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s precisely why we do what we do…we do what we can to get financially disadvantaged students the additional support they need to make achieving that well-deserved degree a little easier. Every school year we assist a different group of 11th & 12 grade students by: ~ channeling College Access funds raised toward College prep, counseling, application and scholarship research assistance, and tutoring. These invaluable programs cultivate dreams and hope. They change the trajectory of students' lives, by allowing them to jump start a journey toward higher education, professional ambitions, and upward mobility. ~ channeling Supplemental Scholarship awards to each year’s 12th grade college scholarship recipients to help with essential expenses (of which there are many) and help reduce their debt burden.
How Fortunate They Are Though their families have very limited income (about 50% of the school’s students receive free and reduced-price lunches), the students are rich with potential, and have the good fortune, via a lottery, to attend a top-notch public charter school where they could cultivate their potential and become competitive college and scholarship candidates with help of a full-time college counselor who we collaborate with. Typically, public schools in less affluent zip codes nationwide aren’t able to provide for students in this way, and not everyone wins the lottery in DC to their school of choice. My heart goes out to those whose potential to soar is stalled due to their misfortune of being in underfunded, understaffed schools, part of our educational system’s inequity. Our 16 inspiring, hard-working student scholars are very fortunate to have had the opportunity to overcome, at least, that disadvantage. Helping them move along on their journey toward a degree, a fulfilling profession and upward mobility with a little more ease is important to me and to our mission. To start replenishing the Funds for 2021-2022 11th & 12 grade scholars donate below Listen to eye-opening interviews with student scholars and successful young professionals. Learn about their financial struggles, achievements, hurdles, and good fortune as they pursue upward mobility. Thanks again on behalf of Skylar, Luz, Damaris, Erik, Shamaari, Cyndy, David, Victoria, Franchelis, Guadalupe, Juana, Noelvin, Katherine, Henry, Johan, and Lizbeth. Sincerely, MaryAnn, Chief Engagement Officer and Founder AllOutForChange® |
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