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Impact

PeerForward Expands Internationally to Bermuda

For 25 years, PeerForward has leveraged positive peer influence to empower low-income students in 11 states and the District of Columbia. Rooted in community-based solutions, PeerForward aims to combat the […]

Impact

Empowering a New Cohort of Peer Leaders

A corps of motivated young leaders are ready to return to school and make a change! This summer, PeerForward traveled around the country inspiring and training a new generation of […]

Gary Z. Linnen CEO of PeerForward

In The News

Gary Z. Linnen on ‘Great.com Talks With…”

Earlier this summer, Great.com interviewed PeerForward about helping individuals attain their education goals through positive peer influence Josh Rhodes from Great.com interviewed PeerForward as part of their ‘Great.com Talks With…’ […]

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Spotlight

Peer-to-Peer Persistence to a Degree

By Stacey Houston, former Director of Evaluation at PeerForward and current Senior UX Researcher, Instagram In the 2016-2017 School year, PeerForward began exploring a novel intervention to one of higher […]

In The News

Peer-to-Peer Persistence to a Degree

In the 2016-2017 School year, PeerForward began exploring a novel intervention to one of higher education’s most pressing problems: student persistence. The numbers tell a grim story. According to the […]

Volunteers

Volunteer Spotlight: Miranda Smalls

For 25 years, PeerForward has worked alongside a vast network of volunteers who are dedicated to our mission of ending education inequity for first-generation, low-income students. We are delighted to […]

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