Causes: Children & Youth, Education, Human Services, Scholarships, Scholarships & Student Financial Aid

Mission: Take Stock in Children aims to passionately promote personal growth, self responsibility and academic success for deserving low-income students by providing a unique set of resources including mentors, scholarships, long term support, student advocacy and a guaranteed educational opportunity. Our purpose is to prepare and develop our studentsto be successful people, focused on being their best and contributing members of society. Our goal is to develop confidence, competence, pride, a sense of belonging and hope in each student. Achieving this goal will result in an improved qualityof life for all of our stakeholders. We believe that a willing child can succeed with the help of passionate and caring people, encouragementand challenge, hard work and accountability.

Geographic areas served: Florida

Programs: Take stock in children uses a sustainable public-private model that enables 96% of our students to graduate from high school and 96% enroll into post-secondary education with a full tuition scholarship. This program has served more than 30,000 of florida's children and provided more than $200 million in college scholarships to deserving low-income children whose household income falls below 185% of the federal poverty guidelines.