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The College Advisory Program: Profile

OUR MISSION IS SIMPLE:To match deserving Black scholars with scholarships to enable themwith the process, guidance, and mentorship and, eventually, become the change in the executive suite.

Why? Experts argue that high school counselors too often overlook the needs of Black students. With proper mentorship, we believe that Black scholars not only find the financial resources they are entitled to pay for their college decisions, but they are also able to find purpose and direction amid the most significant intersection of their lives.BPM CAP recognizes the opportunities that come from a student’s confidence in their education and environment. By mentoring students through our proprietary college admissions process and matching them with right-fit career paths, college majors, and university options, our scholars are graduating in four years, with little to no debt, ready to become difference makers for their future employers.MissionCore StepsSuccessSponsorship

1. Discovery: Including our proprietaryConative Assessments and teachings to ensure scholars’ understanding of themselves andtheir unique abilities.2. Strategies: Scholars are presented with individually-matched options for career focus, college majors, and university menus.3. Solutions: Coach and Scholars working together to create application solutions to gain admission.4. Plan Launch: Once admissions decisions come back, scholars and their coaches examine all of their options to arrive at the right-fit decision.5. Black Progress Finance Connoisseur [BPFC]: Financial Aid and Scholarship strategies and implementation, including all form filling and scholarship appeals.MissionCore StepsSuccessSponsorship

“Through the BPM College Advisory Program, students averaged 92% of their total college cost of attendance funded through a combination of scholarships, grants, and need-based financial aid.”– Evan Giokas, Resource Partner, BPM CAPMissionCore StepsSuccessSponsorship

MissionCore StepsSuccessSponsorship“According to the U.S. Department of Education only 21% of Black students carried a GPA of 3.0 or higher after their first two years of college. BPM CAP Students carried a cumulative 3.5 grade point averageafter their completed second years.”– Kevin Mitchell, Executive Director, BPM Fundraising Committee

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The investment per scholar for the BPM CAP program is $12,000. This sponsorship grants scholars access to their new team of coaches and mentors and begins the entirety of the process immediately. We recommend that scholars begin the process as early in their high school careers as possible but have the resources and expertise available to make the program fit the student no matter their starting point.Scholars will begin in the Nucleus Discovery program, and once matched to their potential list of careers, majors, and universities in the Strategies portion of the process, they will begin their individualized plans to application success in Solutions and beyond.MissionCore StepsSuccessSponsorship

Build with Black Progress MattersIn order to facilitate Key Bank’s instant-impact participation in the BPM Mission, we would like Key Bank to sponsor a cohort of Black scholars. This proactive participation will allow Key Bank to immediately demonstrate its commitment to advancing Black leadership.FOR

ContactsDean Haynesworth Dean@BlackProgressMatters.orgEvan GiokasEvan@BlackProgressMatters.org