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First Graduate

First Graduate

San Francisco, California

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Our Mission

First Graduate's mission is to help students become the first in their families to graduate from college, well-prepared to launch careers that are meaningful to them. We seek to level the playing field for students who are immigrants or children of immigrants, who come from challenging economic circumstances, and who are otherwise disadvantaged in the dominant culture. FG provides them with the long-term support that their more well-off peers receive so that they can be competitive high school and college candidates. And, this long-term investment in their education and exposure to career options sets them on a path to build careers, not just jobs. Education is a right, not a privilege, and we work with students from the summer after sixth grade through college graduation (a 12-year journey) to help them attain their degrees and thereby help their families move out of poverty in a single generation.

Who We Are

First Graduate's effective programs help almost 400 San Francisco-based students each year. In the spring of 2020, we enrolled our 20th class of new students in middle school, support 130 high school students, and we are sending 43 high school seniors off to college! Our long-term, individualized approach successfully meets the needs of first-generation youth. To-date, 99 percent of First Graduate high school seniors have graduated from high school and enrolled in college. By comparison, only 50% of Black and Latinx students in California graduate from high school, 11% of first-generation students nationally attain a BA degree, low-income students are 50% less likely to apply to a selective university, and 80% of people who lost their job in the pandemic do not have college degrees. Our students are attending schools across the nation such as San Francisco State University; NYU, The University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, Georgetown University, CalPoly, and UC Berkeley, and more.

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Website

firstgraduate.org

Email

volunteer@firstgraduate.org

Phone

415561-3450

Tax-Exempt ID (EIN)

94-3381171

Location

2973 16th Street, Suite 400, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States of America

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