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>> Breakthrough Austin 

Breakthrough provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low-income students who will be first-generation college graduates. The program admits students as 6th graders and makes a six-year commitment to helping them graduate from high school and enter college. Breakthrough admitted its first class in 2002, and currently serves more than 250 students in grades seven through twelve. Their goal is for at least 95% of our students to graduate from high school and for at least 85% of them to go straight to college.

>> College for Texans

College for Texans is a project of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Their website helps Texans with everything they need to know about preparing for, applying for, and paying for college or technical school.

>> College Forward

College Forward provides college preparatory services to motivated, economically-disadvantaged students, in order to facilitate their transition to college and make the process exciting and rewarding. They believe that access to higher education is the right of every young Texan. They  accomplish this by providing orientation to the college experience, preparation for college entrance examinations,  assistance with college applications, assistance securing financial aid and college retention support.

>> Diversity Pipeline Alliance

Diversity Pipeline Alliance takes its name from the "pipeline" that carries potential management students from success in middle school to the MBA and beyond. The Alliance's goal is to increase the flow of talented students through that pipeline.

>> Junior Achievement Student Center

As your "map to tomorrow," the JA Student Center is an online navigational tool geared to help you become workforce ready. Here you can search for colleges based on your wants and needs, seek out financial aid to help you pay for that higher education, gain knowledge on how to handle your money, explore careers you have always been interested in, get tips on how to start a business of your own, and much more!

HACU represents more than 400 colleges and universities-in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Latin America, and Spain-that are committed to Hispanic higher education success. HACU is the only national educational association that represents Hispanic-serving institutions.

Con Mi MADRE is a college preparatory program that provides Hispanic female students and their mothers with the educational and social support needed to encourage academic and personal success.  After championing this program for 16 yeras, The Junior League of Austin launched the Hispanic Mother Daughter Program in 2007 to become an indepedent non-profit operating under the new name Con Mi MADRE...Mothers and Daughters Raising Expectations.  The translation of the new name is "with my mother," and this reflects the unique element of our college bound program which involved the participation by the mother and daughter.

Girls are recruited through teachers and school counselors at 11 middle schools and six high schools in the Austin Independent School District (AISD). Girls enter the Program when they are in the 6th grade and are followed through to high school graduation. Many of the students will be the first in their families to attend college.