Our Partners

Building Partnerships With a Shared Vision

Glow seeks to build effective partnerships among non-profits, corporations, foundations, and individuals who share our vision for increased college access and graduation for low income students. We believe we can achieve greater impact, efficiency, and scale through collaborate partnerships that enable and build on each other.

Glow Strategic Partnership Network

Glow Partner Network

Student Partner Organizations

Glow partners with proven high school focused non-profit organizations to recruit high potential pre-qualified applicants into our programs. Our partners are successful in inspiring the dream and commitment for college education in their students. Glow helps to make that dream a reality through our financial education, mentorship, and scholarships.

Our growing family of student partner organizations in the Bay Area currently include the following:

South Bay:
East Palo Alto Academy High School (East Palo Alto)
BUILD-Peninsular (East Palo Alto)
Leadership Public Schools (San Jose)
Fresh Lifelines for Youth (Milpitas)
Foundation for A College Education (East Palo Alto)
Spark (Pilot) (Redwood City)
Summit Preparatory Charter High School (Redwood City)

San Francisco:
City Arts & Tech High School (in partnership with Envision Schools)
Metropolitan Arts & Tech High School (in partnership with Envision Schools)
International Studies Academy (In partnership with YMCA Urban Services)

Students from International Studies Academy, San Francisco with Glow staff and volunteers after a session

Students from International Studies Academy, San Franciscowith Glow staff and volunteers after a session

East Bay
BUILD-Oakland (Oakland)
San Leandro High School (in partnership with National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship Bay Area) (San Leandro)

Financial Literacy Education Partners

Glow partners with banks and other organizations with existing financial literacy education outreach programs. Especially for banks, community outreach is a critical component of the Community Reinvestment Act evaluation. Many of these organizations are looking to expand their outreach programs, yet have difficulty finding a pool of students. Glow provides a valuable service to our Financial Literacy Education partners by providing pre-organized, highly motivated pool of students.

Our current partners include Silicon Valley Bank, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and Opportunity Fund.

College Financial Planning Education Partners

Glow continues to to develop partnerships with nonprofit organizations and/or college consortiums focused on providing information and support to students on college planning and financial aid applications. These organizations include college financial aid and outreach programs (e.g., CAL-SOAP), local colleges, and other college access programs.

Scholarship Partners and Sponsors

Glow partners with community organizations, corporations or individuals with the commitment or desire for scholarship philanthropy. There are multiple ways to work with Glow to provide scholarships to students:

  • Give a Microscholarship
  • Contribute to Glow Scholarship Fund
  • Set up a sponsor tailored scholarship fund within Glow including sponsor designated scholarship title and selection criteria within boundaries. (Minimum donation amount applies)
  • Set up a direct pass through scholarship if you already have a scholarship fund or program. We can help you select the recipient of your scholarship from our pool of high potential students. (Minimum donation amount applies)
  • Develop a scholarship candidate referral partnership. If you have a scholarship program and are looking for access to high potential students, we can help you by referring our students to your program. Since we focus on unmet need of our students for college financing, we are keen on helping our students get more financial aid and scholarships from other available sources.