Your Contribution Changes the World!
You gift makes an impact, read how! SEA relies on support from individuals, charitable foundations, corporations, and small businesses. You can maximize the potential of your gift through corporate matching or though planned giving and endowments.
Our first five years of operation have been successful thanks in large part to the visionary institutional funders who made initial investments in our mission (SEA does NOT receive any government funding). Grants, sponsorships, and corporate matching gifts have made it possible for us to help more than 250 students so far realize their college dreams.
Individual donors are an increasingly important part of SEA’s financial picture. Not only do their contributions make up almost half of our annual revenue, but their personal concern sends a message to our students that there are caring and supportive adults in their lives.
Most of our donors realize the impact that a good education has had on their own lives and so they give in order that others may benefit from the extraordinary experience of college. But the students enrolled in our program are not the only ones who benefit from our work:
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Our region’s institutions of higher learning also benefit as youth from disenfranchised communities become part of their learning population, bringing greater diversity to campus. The addition of new voices and new perspectives will help these institutions increase their global relevance and will enhance the academic and social experience for all involved.
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Local businesses and employers will benefit from this program as at-risk teenagers leave the streets and become highly educated workers who enter the labor force.
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And finally, communities will benefit as young people leave street life. Living on the streets, these young people pose a much higher societal risk than their more affluent peers. These are young people who, without early and effective interventions, are at high risk for gang involvement, criminal activity, incarceration, substance abuse, sexual abuse, physical assault/violence, HIV infection, and depression/suicide.
