Mission Community Market launches Thursday, July 22nd 4-8pm. Check it out HERE.

We’re excited to announce that all 15 students of our second College Connect cohort are off to four-year universities. Ranging from Mills College in the East Bay to Colby Sawyer in New Hampshire and back to Cal Berkeley in the bay area our second cohort of students are off to great universities across the US. Not only are students starting to leave next month, but they’re leaving with generous scholarships and grants! Below is a list of college choices and a list of scholarships which were awarded!

College Decisions
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
California State University, Humboldt
San Francisco State University (4)
San Jose State University
UC Berkeley
UC Davis (2)
UC Los Angeles
UC San Diego
UC Santa Cruz
Colby-Sawyer College
Mills College

Scholarships (in no particular order)
Meritus (4) $12,000
Education First $9,000
826 Valencia (2) $5,000 and $10,000
SF College Access Center (3) $6,000
Comcast $1,000
Maisin (3) $8,000
Save Me a Spot in College $500
Latin American Teachers Association $1,500
7 Tepees $500
ACE Mentor Program $1500
PG&E Asian Employees Association $2500
Incentive Award — Full-ride to UC Berkeley

Total Scholarships for Cohort 2 = $204,500

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We’ll be holding our next Open House on Thursday, August 5th! Come over to the Mission Graduates main office at 3040 16th Street @ Mission on Thursday, August 5th from 4:30pm-5:15pm

We’ll give you an overview of Mission Graduates, meet board and staff, and then walk half a block to Kid Power Park and our Tutoring Center to meet some of the youth we work with.

Hope to see you in a few weeks!

Check out this audio of our promotores talking about sexual diversity on “Nuestros Ninos.”

¡Escuche este audio de nuestros promotores en la radio hablando sobre la diversidad sexual en “Nuestros Ninos.”

Our spring appeal has brought in $4,600 towards our $5,000 goal. Help us reach $5,000 by July 15th!

Your dollars are being matched/doubled by Quest Foundation! Click here and help us reach our goal and help send another youth to college!