On Thursday, May 2, College Possible donors, supporters and education partners gathered to celebrate the Dream Big Dinner. This event celebrates the success of College Possible in helping first-generation Milwaukee students from low-income backgrounds get to and through college. Thanks to the generosity of more than 350 attendees, College Possible raised a record amount at the event. View photos from the evening below. The Dream Big Dinner honored the following awardees for their dedication and passion for College Possible’s mission…

Each year approximately 10-40 percent of high school students accepted into a college or university don’t enroll in the fall. The phenomenon called “summer melt” disproportionately affects students from low-income backgrounds. The U.S. Department of Education says that, “the lower a student’s income, the more likely they are to experience summer melt because they lack the necessary resources and support.” College Possible provides programming, called Summer Bridge, designed to help combat summer melt for all high school students. In Oregon,…

Please help us welcome Jennifer Perrine to the College Possible Oregon leadership team. We are thrilled to have her on board and wanted to share a little bit about her with you! Jennifer began her career at Drake University as a professor. In her ten years there, Jennifer taught a variety of classes from social justice to creative writing to women’s and gender studies. She relocated from Iowa to Portland in 2016 and worked at Portland General Electric as the…