Graduate Support Sponsorship
Through our Graduate Support Program, students prepare for and consider summer enrichment programs, transitioning to high school and college, workforce placement, and other major academic, career, and life transitions. At Esperanza, we support each student and their family through the high school and college years to ensure that each student gains access to the opportunities that they deserve. Our high school graduation rate is 100% and our college graduation rate is 78%.
During our 12-year commitment, we aim to mentor and provide academic and social-emotional support to all of our students and graduates to help them thrive in their educational journeys. We assist students and families as they navigate educational processes and provide resources that include mentorship, application guidance, school admissions test practice, financial aid application workshops, and essay-writing workshops among other resources. Above all, we remain a community that empowers and celebrates the successes of our graduates long after they have graduated from Esperanza Academy.
Graduate Support Sponsorship Yearly Giving Levels
$10,000 - This giving level supports the work that our GSP team does with our high school aged students. This means vastly different levels of support for our students in independent boarding schools, independent day schools, local parochial schools, and tech schools.
$15,000 - This giving level supports the GSP teams’ work with our college aged students all of whom are first generation college students. We support our college aged alumnae through professional mentoring, financial literacy, and physiological and academic support so that they can be in the best position possible to succeed.
For more information, please contact Peter Dalton at (978) 686-4673, or peter.dalton@esperanzaacademy.org.
What else does a Graduate Support Sponsorship support?
Academic, financial, career, and communal support to alumni of all ages,
High School placement support to ensure that each student attends a high school that is the best fit for each particular student
Ongoing academic and social-emotional support as students navigate independent high schools and/or college as first-generation students.
Ongoing financial aid support
Financial literacy training, particularly as it pertains to students loans and college acceptance letters
Our Graduate Support lounge at Esperanza, which is a safe space for students to return to during school breaks to process their high school and college experiences
Mentorship opportunities for high school and college-age alumnae
Ensuring that each student is prepared to succeed in high school and college, and ultimately disrupting the cycle of poverty in their families.