krose - PeerForward

25 Apr PeerForward Welcomes Coaches-in-Training

Posted at 18:48h in PeerForward, Alumni

Second Cohort of Coaches-in-Training Begin their Journey On April 11, PeerForward officially ushered in a new cohort of Coaches-in-Training, marking our second year of recruiting a group of promising young leaders to continue their journey with us as futurePeerForward Coaches. The following six PeerForward alumni comprise our newest Coaches-in-Training cohort: Aloysia "AJ" Jean Baja Poawui Brayan Murguia Jenadra Harvey Lisseth Velasquez Phillips Percy With...

25 Apr Loreal Latimer & the Infinite 8

Posted at 18:36h in Alumni

Loreal Latimer and the Infinite 8: A Reflection on the journey to Become a PeerForward Coach. In 2014, eight young professionals embarked on a journey of learning and leadership together. They came from around the nation to dedicate themselves to serving low-income communities with passion, purpose,...

10 Oct Three Cheers for Our Devoted Volunteers

Posted at 15:45h in Volunteers

If you’ve ever experienced a workshop, then you know first-hand that our volunteers play a pivotal role impacting hundreds of students each year. Whether they’re bright-eyed college students, dedicated alumni, or wholehearted, wise professionals, volunteers arrive at our workshops each year eager to guide our...

19 Jun Michael & Susan Dell Foundation blog features PeerForward’s Co-founder and CEO

Posted at 21:09h in In the Media

The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation recently featured PeerForward’s co-founder and CEO Keith Frome on their blog series, “On College Success.” The blog highlights Frome’s responses to questions on the transformative power of PeerForward, the passions that drive his work, and his own vision for...

19 Oct FedEx Announces Investment in PeerForward’s Student-Driven College Access Program

Posted at 17:04h in Newsworthy

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 college and career goals. By 2020, 65 percent of jobs in America will require a form...

18 Sep Volunteer Kevin Naiker

Posted at 09:17h in Partner Spotlights

Meet Kevin Naiker, Director of College Coaching who went from anti-Apartheid activist to college access educator, now teaching at Howard Community College. I was born in Cape Town, South Africa, during the Apartheid era. Education was considered a luxury for African Americans. Certainly not a given....

25 Oct Partner School Confluence Preparatory Academy

Posted at 15:02h in Partner Spotlights

This summer, four seniors from Confluence Preparatory Academy traveled to Baltimore, Maryland, with their College Summit teacher, Haley Brueck, for a PeerForward leadership workshop they’ll never forget. PeerForward is an organization dedicated to transforming the lives of today’s youth by connecting them to college and career....

23 Aug PeerForward Receives Major Grants from Carnegie, Fossil and Stupski Foundations to Scale Student-Driven Program

Posted at 11:25h in Newsworthy

PeerForward is pleased to announce three significant grants from Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Fossil Foundation and the Stupski Foundation, all focused on scaling our student–driven program to impact more than 1.8 million students from low-income communities over the next decade. Carnegie Corporation, America’s oldest...

20 Oct Picking Up the Beat from Peers

Posted at 17:21h in CEO Insights

I just saw Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s film about Miles Davis. Notes and chords and rhythm are the building blocks of a piece of music, and a great jazz composition deconstructs them, rearranges them, spreads them out, slows them down, and speeds them up. Sort...

11 Oct Compassion and College Access

Posted at 11:36h in CEO Insights

This past summer, PeerForward trained 110 teams of high school juniors and seniors from public schools from around the country to coach the rest of their classmates to navigate their way to higher education. They do this by creating teams at their school and driving,...