About Glow Foundation

Glow Foundation was founded in 2006 to address the financial barriers that highly motivated and capable, low-income students face in attending and graduating college.

Our MISSION is to provide financial education, mentoring, and scholarships to high potential, college-ready students from under-resourced communities.  By using college financing, the first major financial event for most students, as a platform for financial education, Glow Foundation not only helps low income students get access to college education, but also provides students with the critical financial literacy and planning skills that will help them succeed beyond their schools years.

OUR VISION is that ALL qualified, highly-motivated students, regardless of their income level, should be able to afford and graduate from college and reach their greatest potential.

OUR SOLUTION empowers students to proactively plan and seek their own funding for college and close the last dollar gap with unmet need scholarships.  (More about our Solutions)

Who we serve
Glow Foundation supports students with strong leadership potential who are at risk of not attending college due to financial barriers.  Glow partners with established youth programs and schools to identify these high potential students.

• Over 80% of Glow’s students are from low income families, qualifying for federally subsidized lunch program
• Over 80% of our students will be the first in their family to attend college.
• 45% Hispanic, 22% African, 22% Asian/Pacific Islander, 9% Mixed

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Glow Foundation’s current geographic focus is in the Bay Area including East Palo Alto, Redwood City, Milpitas, San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and San Leandro communities.  Glow has the vision to expand to other California regions in the long term.