When did you first get involved with First Graduate? I got involved with First Graduate® when I selected the organization as my charity to raise money for when I ran the San Francisco Marathon in June 2013. What inspired you to get involved? I chose First Graduate® because I was the first in my family […]
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Over the course of the past semester two First Graduate® students, Derrick Ly (FG5, Chapman University) and Jose Luis Sanchez (FG8, Wesleyan University) participated in a social media bootcamp internship with LinkedIn. Derrick and Jose Luis spent 5-weeks learning from social media experts about how to best leverage the LinkedIn platform to connect with other professionals, students, volunteer, and
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It is never too early to start planning and searching for summer internships. With that in mind, First Graduate® college students attended an Internship/Job Search Kickoff event this week. The goals of the workshop was (1) to learn strategies that will help increase their chances of landing an internship or job and (2) to inspire
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“Cutlery! I learned a word for forks, spoons, and knives! Cutlery!” cried Millen, a 9th grader at Lincoln High School, who couldn’t hold back her excitement over a new word shared with her by a volunteer at her monthly advisory meeting. Last week the walls at Kabam reverberated with a tornado of a dozen such inquiring teenage voices as employees at the San
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When did you first get involved with First Graduate? I joined First Graduate® earlier last year as a volunteer Career Consultant, supporting Cassy Huang, the Career Success Manager with her work on behalf of the students. It has been a great experience to work with Cassy & the First Graduate® staff. What inspired you to
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Jan. 15, 2015 First Graduate, a San Francisco-based college access and success program, will celebrate its fifth cohort of first-generation college graduates and recognize the honorable Willie L. Brown, Jr. with its First in Family Award at Cap & Gown 2015 on April 21st at the Fairmont San Francisco. The First in
The holiday season has come and gone, and we are feeling so blessed here at First Graduate. This year we were amazed at the generosity of our supporters – our year-end campaign raised $265,000 from over 120 donors. Gifts ranged from $5 to $7,500 and came from places near (like San Francisco) and far (like
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A HUGE thank you to all the folks at DigitasLBi who worked tirelessly to create this video about First Graduate® and the inspiring students we have the pleasure to work with. Thank you also to Marmoset for donating the music which really ties it all together. It’s an amazing piece of work and we are so proud to show it
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Over the weekend First Graduate® hosted an Hour of Code event that was attended by 15 students and their families. The Hour of Code is a global movement that has reached tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Last year there were more than 32,000 events around the world, including 15 million participants, 10 million
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PG&E was recently named to The Civic 50 list for the third year in a row in honor of all the company’s philanthropic efforts. In 2013 PG&E gave out grants totaling $23 million to over 1,300 charitable organizations, and PG&E employees raised more than $6.5 million and volunteered more than 48,000 hours to improve the communities
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