Get Involved

Obtaining a college education is an American dream many families have not achieved. P4E has been highly successful in reaching students and families in low-income communities in the Washington, D.C. area with information and activities that show them how they can achieve this American dream—receiving a college degree. However, P4E has had limited resources and has not been able to fund all of the activities that support its efforts. Without additional support to stay in school and enroll in higher education, the students and families served in the communities touched by P4E will have fewer career opportunities and will continue the cycle of poverty fostered in those neighborhoods. So, P4E is asking you to Get Involved. How?

Recreation and Community Centers and Community-based Organizations

P4E invites and challenges you to arrange for a P4E’s One Step Forward monthly experiential learning, college awareness and academic skills session. Workshops are designed to enhance the ability of all families to assist, direct, support and guide their youth in their pursuit of higher education.

Local School Teachers and Administrators

P4E invites and challenges you to set up a Kids2College, six-week series of academic enrichment sessions for sixth grade students at your institution. The sessions cover three major areas: early college awareness, career awareness, and study skills. Sessions are facilitated by trained college/university students. The challenge extends to providing your seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students a two-session curricula focused on postsecondary options, career choices, and college admissions—P4E’s Phase 3. These sessions are also facilitated by trained college/university students.

Colleges and Universities

P4E invites and challenges you to create a Steps 4 Continued Success program, which is a structured, rigorous academic college prep program for youth and their families. The academic sessions highlight math, writing, reading and critical thinking skills. Sessions also include a variety of higher education and career awareness activities. Youth and families make a commitment to complete the program’s activities with your institution.

Individual, Grant, and Other Financial Supports

As a grassroots pipeline program, P4E connections include various levels of the K-16 educational system, for- and nonprofit organizations, and government agencies that encourage, promote and provide resources for students and families to pursue and complete a college education. Your funding gesture will create more opportunity in communities where citizens find it difficult/scarce to reach the ‘American dream’ through education.