Learn about COOP’s Impact
Every year, one million first-generation and low-income students graduate from college believing that a bachelor’s degree will provide long-term economic wellbeing for themselves and their families. A shocking number never realize this promise. Despite the incredible amount of time and resources they invest in getting a bachelor’s degree.
We imagine a world in which peer and near-peer connections are the primary drivers to overcoming underemployment—a world in which thousands and thousands of first-generation college grads are fully employed sooner because of their web of peer connections through their COOP network.
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COOP closes the social capital gap and propels underemployed college graduates into upward economic mobility through an untapped lever of social-capital building: peer connections.
We connect un-/underemployed college graduates to one another—within cohorts and across “generations” of cohorts. By growing their peer professional networks, members of our community achieve upward economic mobility by building the skills and connections they need for the careers they deserve.
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Within 12 months of program completion, four-in-five COOP alumni are fully employed in their intended field earning an average of $50,000 per year. Around 80% of alumni remain fully employed 2-5 years after COOP — and upwardly mobile: our earliest alumni earn a median of $75,000 at the five-year mark.
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There are so many ways to stay engaged with COOP from mentoring, to hiring an alumni, to referring a student, to taking part in a panel presentation and so much more.
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