College application and financial aid season is well underway, and the first wave of application deadlines is approaching in November! If you haven't already, make an appointment with the advisor in your
school or in our downtown
Resource Center to complete the FAFSA and solidify your postsecondary plans!
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Register now for impact winter session
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A free, 8-week ACT/SAT prep course offered in nine Northeast Ohio locations
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impact is an 8-week, tri-annual program that focuses on ACT and SAT preparation and college and career readiness. This program, funded by the Ohio Department of Education’s
21st Century Community Learning Centers grant
, and is administered by College Now Greater Cleveland in partnership with the
Boys and Girls Clubs of Cleveland
, the
Cleveland Public Library
,
City Life Center-Greater Cleveland Youth for Christ
,
Clearview Local Schools
,
Euclid Public Library
,
Lorain City School District
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Warrensville Heights City School District
,
Wellington Exempted Village Schools
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The goal of impact is to help students meet state and local standards in core academic subject areas, specifically mathematics and reading. The impact team works toward enhancing ACT, SAT, or PSAT test-taking strategies, providing enrichment activities that complement students’ regular academic programming and giving students the necessary tools to prepare for postsecondary education. An 8-week session at impact includes two ACT/SAT/PSAT practice exams, two family sessions, a parent orientation before session begins and a college and career project.
Upon completion of the program, students are eligible for a $200 stipend if they attended 30 days of the session and raised their test score by two points. Additionally, students that complete the program are eligible to participate in college tours.
To learn more about the program and to register, click
here
.
Want to get an idea of what impact is like? We've been following our fall session on our
instagram page. Check it out!
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Last call to apply for Adult Learner Scholarship
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College Now provides scholarship opportunities to adult students age 19 and above who have interrupted their education for at least one year or more and who are pursuing a non-degree certificate or license in a vocational or technical program, an associate’s degree or first bachelor’s degree.
If selected, the scholarship can be renewed for up to five years or ten (10) semesters or until recipient completes their bachelor's degree program; whichever occurs first. The scholarship will be sent to your academic institution starting in the 2019 Spring Term.
Deadline to apply is November 18 at 11:59 p.m.
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Student Spotlight: Lydia Johnson
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Lydia is a mentee in College Now’s Mentoring Program and is currently a senior at Howard University, double majoring in Political Science and Spanish, with a double minor in Japanese and French. A passionate language learner, Lydia has had numerous study abroad opportunities during her undergraduate experience. Since her sophomore year, Lydia has visited 12 countries, including Senegal, Spain, and Cuba, and held both volunteer and internship positions overseas. This semester she is working on completing her Japanese minor through a semester abroad in Tokyo. She considers traveling as an extension of her love of languages, and she hopes to be an inspiration and resource for other minority students to have their own study abroad experiences.
At home, she applies her language skills as an ESL tutor, teaching English and offering homework support to bilingual middle school students. Lydia’s goal is to be a dynamic global leader, and she hopes to one day work for the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. For now, however, she is focused on graduation and preparing for post-grad life. After receiving her degrees, Lydia has plans to move back to her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia to spend a gap year working as a legal intern or at a university study abroad office. During this time she intends to work on her professional development, study for her LSAT, and apply for the 2020 cohort of Peace Corps volunteers. She hopes to spend two years as a volunteer serving as an English Literacy Teacher in the Dominican Republic.
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Save the date: Bag Lady 2019
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We're thrilled to announce the date of our 2019 Bag Lady Luncheon! We hope you will mark your calendars and plan to join us on Thursday, September 12, 2019 at our new location, The Great Lakes Science Center! Our co-chairs, Suzanne Aral-Boutros, President at Suzanne Aral-Boutros Agency, State Farm Insurance, and Trina Evans, Executive Vice President at Key Bank, along with their host committee, are hard at work to make sure this is an event that you will not want to miss.
The Bag Lady Luncheon is a biennial event at which attendees bid on designer handbags during a silent auction, which is followed by a short program. The event benefits College Now's Mentoring Program, which pairs College Now scholarship recipients with mentors in the community who help mentees successfully complete college. The 2017 Bag Lady Luncheon raised $470,000 to benefit the program.
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Warrensville Heights middle schoolers get lit about their futures with #CareerU
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Meeting with these institutions and organizations early in their educational journey will help these eighth grade students start to think about their postsecondary plans, as well as guide them throughout their upcoming high school years. Students even received hands-on guidance in learning about potential future careers, including having the opportunity to practice their news interviewing and camera skills with WKYC reporters Jasmine Monroe and Brandon Simmons.
College Now's #CareerU program at Warrensville Heights Middle School is a school-based mentoring program aimed at helping eighth grade students build a foundation for postsecondary and career success as they prepare for high school. It is an extension of the True2U program, which College Now co-designed with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
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College Now receives SunTrust Lighting the Way award
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Recognized for its philanthropic contributions to Greater Cleveland, College Now Greater Cleveland was awarded a 2018 Lighting the Way Award and $75,000 grant by the SunTrust Foundation.
The SunTrust Foundation’s Lighting the Way Awards recognize select nonprofit organizations that strengthen their local communities through programs that help people better their circumstances and gain financial confidence.
“We’re committed to building stronger communities, and our nonprofit partners are addressing community needs in innovative and very meaningful ways,” said Stan Little, president of the SunTrust Foundation. “College Now is improving the lives of many people, and we applaud their mission, long-term service and the impact they’re making where it’s most needed.”
“College Now has been providing critical college and career access services to Northeast Ohio individuals for the past 50 years, with a large part of those services focusing on financial aid counseling,” said Lee Friedman, CEO of College Now. “Our advisors are uniquely trained to help those we serve understand the true costs and benefits of pursuing postsecondary education and the best options for financing that education. This grant from the SunTrust Foundation will allow us to deepen our financial aid counseling, focusing on financial aid and student debt that directly impact postsecondary educational attainment. We are honored to receive the Lighting the Way Award in recognition of this impactful work, and grateful to the SunTrust Foundation for their support in helping students obtain the financial knowledge and aid necessary to successfully pursue a postsecondary education.”
Established in 2008, the SunTrust Foundation is committed to supporting a wide range of financial well- being efforts through grants and partnerships with local philanthropic organizations. To date, the SunTrust Foundation has awarded more than $140 million in grants to organizations across the United States.
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College Now Greater Cleveland
50 Public Square, Suite 1800
Cleveland, OH 44113
216.241.5587
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