Our graduating high school Peer Leaders are taking the next big step on their postsecondary path, and we're thrilled to commemorate this milestone with them! That’s why we launched our #MovingForward campaign, a social media celebration of the colleges, military paths, and exciting opportunities our senior Peer Leaders are pursuing next. Check out their postsecondary paths: [gallery...
When Peer Leaders see their classmates in need of support, they go above and beyond to help their peers through. That remained true during these uniquely challenging final months of the 2019-20 school year. While schools shifted to online learning in response to COVID-19, Peer Leaders acted fast to understand their classmates’ changing needs, quickly strategizing new ways to help peers stay on track to...
The work our Peer Leaders do already is an act of translation – taking the knowledge and resources they have gained and sharing them in ways accessible to those for whom the college-going process is unfamiliar. For Peer Leaders like Jazlyn Leonzo from Bowie High School in Md., taking that work a step further...
In the spirit of spring, PeerForward teams are blooming with new ideas on how to continue the momentum on their college-going campaigns as they near the last quarter of the school year. In support of their continued success, PeerForward hosts Spring Training Camps to provide Peer Leaders with the opportunity to reflect, review, and recognize their impressive campaign activities. As a team, Peer Leaders...
Peer influence has the power to change the course of a student’s life in high school and beyond. Our Peer Leaders are experts at using their peer influence to steer classmates in a positive direction by encouraging them to pursue postsecondary education and connecting them to the resources for a successful academic journey. The PeerForward team at Charles H. Flowers High School saw the perfect...
The holidays are near, and nothing warms us more than looking back at all our Peer Leaders have accomplished so far this school year. At the high school level, Peer Leaders have been busy supporting their peers as they fill out college applications, file for...
Peer Leaders at Broward College and Achieve Atlanta are trailblazers, breaking new ground as the first to serve the role of PeerForward Peer Leader on college campuses this year. We’ve been thrilled to watch them shine in their Peer Leader roles after our initial training at Summer Workshops....
This August, our newest group of Peer Leaders took Daemen College by storm with great energy, passion, and leadership for their 2019 Summer Workshop. This incredible group of 76 rising high school seniors came together from 21 high schools in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Michigan for a weekend that was nothing short of transformational. Here, Peer Leaders learned...
Our newest wave of Peer Leaders brought the heat to NOVA Southeastern University in Florida this July for their 2019 Summer Workshop, and their energy and passion to create change in their communities was on fire! A total of 117 rising high school seniors from...
Deloitte has been a long-time supporter of PeerForward and our push to increase early FAFSA completion in PeerForward partner schools. This work is vital to increasing the number of students from low-income communities who get to and through college, as students who file the FAFSA early are shown to...
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We’ve changed our name, but our mission and values are the same. After two decades of leveraging peer influence to guide more students to higher education, we’ve adopted a name that reflects the power of youth activation. Read more