Young people who’ve experienced homelessness face overwhelming odds throughout their lives—yet many still pursue college dreams, despite financial strife and not believing they can succeed. While over 90% of unhoused youth aspire to careers requiring higher education, only 16% believe they’ll graduate within five years. Nationally, they’re less than one-third as likely to be enrolled in a four-year college as their housed peers.

Recently, a small group of students from a nonprofit serving homeless youth—whom we have known since they were middle schoolers—had the college mentorship and financial support they were promised suddenly revoked due to a lack of funding.

Your donation will support 10 college students by funding regular check-ins with an educator they know and trust—offering academic and career guidance, emotional support, and help navigating tutoring, campus resources, and life challenges. It will also help them buy dorm essentials, school supplies, books, and cover key costs that financial aid doesn't.

Together, we can turn broken promises into real pathways out of poverty—and into opportunity.