Our Goals
- We aim to help students successfully manage the college or trade school application process, choose schools and post graduate programs that are excellent fits for their goals, and provide financial options that are necessary to pursue their dreams.
- We aim to begin this support during their high school years to prepare them as early as possible for what is to come post graduation.
- We seek to support students, making sure they get the most out of their schooling by helping them as they begin to explore their career options and create the networks and social capital that become important assets for the rest of their lives.
- We envision empowering students to move confidently, safely, and securely towards their liberation and success as they define it.
- We expect to provide a safety net for recent graduates to learn how to maneuver the realities of adulthood without suffering lifelong consequences if they make mistakes.
When young people enter the program, our goal is that they’ll always feel part of a family.
The Benefit of TIME
Time is an asset. People don't think about time poverty unless they’ve been “time poor,” and even then, it takes years before the impact of this can be fully seen. I was time poor. During my time in college, I had to spend time earning money which meant I didn't have the opportunity to go to office hours and build essential relationships with professors. I didn't have the opportunity to hang around after class, spend time with graduate student instructors, or attend professor organized meet ups at cafes. Time was truly a luxury that I did not possess and because I did not possess it, ultimately I had to forgo opportunities that would have allowed me to build essential relationships –relationships that are crucial to navigating a post undergraduate reality.
Time poverty has repercussions that last long after college. It affects the future, including things like necessary recommendations for graduate school, professional connections, or the option to create deep meaningful connections that make you part of an alumni family! These are what we call “extra” experiences.
Let's be even more honest, for many more than qualified young people, post high school education is completely inaccessible due to time poverty! Time poverty is a disastrously common reality that a traditional scholarship does nothing to combat. So the goal is to set Anaz community members up with enough support to take full advantage of opportunities, so that young people can build up all of those “extras” that are actually not extra at all.
Time poverty has repercussions that last long after college. It affects the future, including things like necessary recommendations for graduate school, professional connections, or the option to create deep meaningful connections that make you part of an alumni family! These are what we call “extra” experiences.
Let's be even more honest, for many more than qualified young people, post high school education is completely inaccessible due to time poverty! Time poverty is a disastrously common reality that a traditional scholarship does nothing to combat. So the goal is to set Anaz community members up with enough support to take full advantage of opportunities, so that young people can build up all of those “extras” that are actually not extra at all.
The Benefit of Safety Nets
Our goal is to make the transition process from college to career as easy as possible and to become a source of “credibility” for our youth. For example, when a Scholar needs someone to sign on an apartment lease, the Foundation would support that. We will establish programs to subsidize rent, so that ultimately, our youth will be responsible for themselves but have a safety net to fall back on.
We will be setting our participants up to be able to learn what it means to be independent, without exposing them to the kinds of systemic consequences that end up putting people even deeper in a hole while they're learning how to figure out how to be an adult.
It is not enough to simply provide a financial safety net to our young people, we will also be providing them with essential financial literacy skills that will help them in making well thought out decisions that will set them up for success, even in retirement.
We will be setting our participants up to be able to learn what it means to be independent, without exposing them to the kinds of systemic consequences that end up putting people even deeper in a hole while they're learning how to figure out how to be an adult.
It is not enough to simply provide a financial safety net to our young people, we will also be providing them with essential financial literacy skills that will help them in making well thought out decisions that will set them up for success, even in retirement.