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
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
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
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
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
Our annual Winter Celebration is an opportunity for the entire First Graduate® family (staff, students, parents, and volunteers) to get together and celebrate the achievements of the year. This year’s event took place at Everett Middle School (where our current after school programming takes place) and the turnout and energy was unbelievable! We had over 180
This week First Graduate® was excited to partner with Lyft, a San Francisco-based rideshare company, for a volunteer event to help our middle school students prepare their high school applications and personal statements. Lyft volunteers worked one-on-one with students, giving them personal application advice. Students walked away from the event feeling more confident about the high school
For the past month our College Prep Team (who work with our high school students) have gone above and beyond the call of duty working into the night with students here in the office to ensure that our seniors have as many college options available to them as possible come spring. In the effort to get
This year First Graduate® was pleased to partner with LinkedIn to provide two of our students, Derrick and Jose Luis, an amazing social media internship opportunity. After spending a few weeks at the LinkedIn offices in San Francisco learning the ins-and-outs of social media, these students have returned to campus (Derrick is a senior at
