We are pleased to announce the addition of our seventh site, College Possible Washington! This marks the first occasion College Possible has united with another organization, College Access Now (CAN), to make college access and success possible for students from low-income backgrounds in the state of Washington. Founded in 2006, CAN is also a member of the AmeriCorps National Service Program and designed its program based on College Possible’s nationally-recognized and rigorously-evaluated model of near-peer mentoring and coaching. In May…

College Possible’s Navigate program serves students across Minnesota using a tech-connected coaching model that utilizes phone, email, text and social media outreach. This year, three coaches based in College Possible Minnesota’s office in St. Paul engaged over 300 students around the state in the college access process. “Coaches send out newsletters to students and communicate via text and email frequently, and obviously phone calls as well, and that’s standardized among the team,” said Navigate Program Coordinator Lane Holden. “Where we…

College Possible high school students Matthew Brown, Blut Thaw and Has (Amber) Paw Moo of Omaha Northwest High Magnet School stand in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. The three were selected for the Nebraska Civic Leadership Program that teaches public high school students about local, state and federal government and the role of an active citizen. Three aspiring and ambitious College Possible students participated in the Nebraska Civic Leadership Program and traveled to the nation’s capital in…