DREAM Alive

DREAM Alive (DA) is a Non-Profit (501c3) focused on mentoring at-risk youth in 7th-12th grade to become civic-minded leaders. DREAM Alive helps break the cycle of poverty by helping youth discover career paths and mentoring them from 7th grade until high school graduation.

Through partnerships with schools, communities, and corporations, DREAM Alive provides scholars with three key opportunities: career-focused experiential learning, mentoring relationships, and character development. With a heavy focus on career paths, corporate volunteer integration, emotional intelligence training, long term mentoring, and cost effectiveness, DREAM Alive differentiates itself from other mentoring organizations.

The full impact DREAM Alive has had in our 9-year journey will be shared throughout this website, however – to help set expectations on the game-changing impact DA has had on our youth, we wanted to share – up front – what we feel makes us different and special based on our current analytics. Our impact to date with youth can be summarized as:

• 100% High School Graduation Rate

• 89% of Youth in College, Military, or career immediately after graduation 

• 69% are in a 4-Year College under a Full Scholarship 

• DA operates at 34% of the cost of an average mentoring organization 

•  With 539 students served in 2018 (+66% over 2017, +2595% over 9 years), we have grown our impact every year since 2010.