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No Student Should Have to Go Through College Alone

The Collective Success Network is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit* that supports low-income, first-generation (LIFG) college students to achieve their academic and career aspirations through empowering mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities.

We connect students with professional mentors and prepare them to enter professional career paths. In parallel, we collaborate with the wider business community to create innovative solutions to increase college success rates and build a socioeconomically diverse talent pipeline.

While we are based in Philadelphia, our professional volunteers hail from across the United States. Our intercollegiate programs are open to students from across the country who are attending college in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Region (an area that includes Southern New Jersey and Delaware).

We are building a hub-and-spokes model to eventually scale nation-wide (the hubs are led by a team of professional volunteers and the spokes are the campus chapters at various universities led by students). We plan to collaborate with regional partners to set up our next hubs in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. and from there expand further.
Note: The above descriptive information came from the organization's About Us page.

In The News

COVID-19: Collective Success Network Provides Refurbished Laptops for Philadelphia Students, Philadelphia Neighborhoods, April 27, 2020.

This nonprofit helps first generation, low income students connect with local Phila. professionals, Daily Pennsylvanian, May 18, 2017.

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 {{toplink|url=http://collectivesuccess.org|name=collectivesuccess.org}}<blockquote>''No Student Should Have to Go Through College Alone''<blockquote>
-''Professionals paying it forward''<br><br>Our proposal is to build, nurture and sustain a community of professionals to support, mentor and empower college students from disadvantaged backgrounds (students from lower-income communities who may be the first generation in their families to attend college).<br><br>Our focus is to:
-*Design and implement a mentorship program tailored for college students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
-*Organize intercollegiate career development, networking, and Q&A events tailored for college students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
-*Support first-generation college student groups to form campus-based chapters and organize social events, so as to strengthen formal and informal social support networks on campus.
-*Collaborate with corporations to invest in enhancing the diversity of the talent pipeline by organizing job recruiting activities focused on college students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
+The Collective Success Network is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit* that supports low-income, first-generation (LIFG) college students to achieve their academic and career aspirations through empowering mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities.
+We connect students with professional mentors and prepare them to enter professional career paths. In parallel, we collaborate with the wider business community to create innovative solutions to increase college success rates and build a socioeconomically diverse talent pipeline.
+While we are based in Philadelphia, our professional volunteers hail from across the United States. Our intercollegiate programs are open to students from across the country who are attending college in the Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Region (an area that includes Southern New Jersey and Delaware).
+We are building a hub-and-spokes model to eventually scale nation-wide (the hubs are led by a team of professional volunteers and the spokes are the campus chapters at various universities led by students). We plan to collaborate with regional partners to set up our next hubs in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. and from there expand further.
+''Note:''&nbsp;&nbsp;The above descriptive information came from the organization's [http://www.collectivesuccess.org/about-us About Us] page.
 ==In The News==