El Monte Promise Foundation

Within the community engagement initiative we seek to directly engage families, parents, local organizations or businesses, educators, and students. We actively attempt to build capacity through cultivated leadership with our parents and students, and create sustainable authentic relationships and partnerships with organizations or entities serving our area. Currently this initiative can be further delineated into youth, parent, Asian Pacific Islander (API), and Latino/a/x engagement. Of course the programming lying within this initiative depends on what groups that are high-need come into our area of service.

The cradle-to-college pathway is an initiative where we work to ensure that students of all ages have the tools, support, and resources to pursue higher education to successful completion. This means that we actively support our students through partnerships with our local educational systems to ensure that we support students in soft skills and more on their journey.

Within our financial literacy and education initiative, we support our local communities and residents in their understanding of financial topics, and help to prepare families and students to understand and bear the cost of a college education. We partner with local financial institutions to give workshops to the community on topics like budgeting, paying for college, FAFSA, investing, and more. Within this initiative we have our Scholars Savings Program in which we help local families sign up their child for a state 529 (or college savings) account.