Structured Support for College Persistence
Our mission is to improve the college persistence rate of low-income first-generation students, and ready students for careers that increase their economic and social mobility
We made a list of 23 reasons that committed, bright students don’t make it through college—and it is our goal to address all of those reasons. To start, we connect our students to funding and teach financial literacy. We make sure students get to campus with the supplies they need. We connect students to one-on-one mentoring and tutoring, and we provide personal text and phone support throughout the year.
Our Community
Gantry Group includes students, parents, friends, donors, and coaches focused on college success for first-generation students through better preparation, formal mentoring, and dependable funding.
Our Students
Gantry Group students hurdle over barriers. They reach for education. They set lofty goals and create new opportunities. They plan to make a difference in their communities and for their families. And they do.
Our Methods
Gantry Group increases social, human, and cultural capital through debt-free education, high-impact mentorship, and strategic connections to relationships and networks.
Only 11% of first-generation, low-resourced students graduate from college in six years
Student Resources
Check out the some materials that help Gantry Group students and their parents successfully begin and continue through college!
What is a gantry?
Gantries provide positioning, stability, and access to resources for a rocket preparing for launch. A gantry is also a bridge-like structure that supports heavy loads. In Spanish, gantry means “portal.”
It’s easy for you to make a difference!
Donate
What is the easiest way for you to make a difference? Scholarships!
$900 buys a computer. $500 gets a meal plan. $3200 pays for tuition. $200 and we have books.
Participate
Do you have time or talent? (Or both?) Join us!
Can you take pictures of students for our website? Help a kid fill out the FAFSA? Proofread an application essay? Tutor algebra once a week?
Fundraise
What is friends + fun = money? A fundraiser!
An auction on Instagram for Gantry Group students raised $20,000 in two weeks for student scholarships! A bake sale (with many generous baked goods buyers) raised $1600.
Getting into college is a milestone Staying in college is the goal
