Financial Literacy and Career Readiness: Program Design for East Palo Alto Academy Foundation Scholars

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Abstract: Students from East Palo Alto Academy have fewer resources than students at surrounding South Bay Area high schools, which necessitates the foundation’s work. 95% of their students qualify for free and reduced lunch and 75% are English language learners. The foundation’s team focuses mainly on financially supporting students through scholarships but hopes to expand its impact through other programming. Development of a financial literacy and career readiness program is EPAAF’s next step to expanding its offerings. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a pause in the organization’s physical programming with students and this project serves to create a foundational plan for implementation in the coming academic year and beyond. Fostering a new generation of diverse and successful individuals with higher education degrees is of great importance to advancing issues of social and racial equity in American society. EPAAF’s work is community based for the underserved students of East Palo Alto who are predominantly people of color. Equipping these students with the tools necessary to succeed will only benefit society through servicing the needs of underserved populations. Overall, this POLS project is part of a thoughtful long-range planning process to sketch a multi-year sequence of events, which will foster scholars’ career readiness and financial literacy throughout their undergraduate experience.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2021

Author	Paisley, Will Avery

Subject	Stanford Graduate School of Education
Subject	Policy Organization and Leadership Studies
Subject	POLS Project
Subject	Financial Literacy
Subject	Career Readiness
Subject	Program Design
Subject	East Palo Alto
Subject	East Palo Alto Academy
Subject	East Palo Alto Academy Foundation
Subject	Planning
Genre	Article

Related item	Title East Palo Alto Academy Foundation
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/mz201hw8678

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Preferred Citation: Paisley, Will Avery. (2021). Financial Literacy and Career Readiness: Program Design for East Palo Alto Academy Foundation Scholars. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/mz201hw8678

Policy, Organization Leadership Studies (POLS) Program Field Projects, Graduate School of Education

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