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, and individual volunteers, 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.

Career Path Development: We provide at-risk youth with services centered around career path development. DA believes that youth must have realistic dreams of future careers in order for them to succeed in their education and future adult career journey. By exposing youth to career paths through programmatic and progressive activities over 6-years, youth will not only achieve academic goals of graduation but will excel to begin their career path. All DA scholars are expected to have a career path leading to college, military, trade, or career upon high school graduation.

3 PROGRAMS. 1 GOAL.

We are committed to building servant leaders by giving youth opportunities to discover their community, grow in character, and achieve their dreams. In our 8 year history, 100% of our high school seniors have graduated high school, and 69% have gone on to college. Much of this is due to our 6-year continuum of programs. Youth are offered as many as 250 hours of mentor programming per year, per youth.