Achieving What’s Possible!
Our Work Matters.
Collegiate Directions, Inc., founded in 2005, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to closing the education, achievement, and opportunity gap for primarily first-generation-to-college students from low-income households. Our Scholars Program provides comprehensive college counseling, targeted tutoring, test preparation, study skills, leadership training, and ongoing support, starting in 10th grade and continuing through successful college graduation. Our School Support Program extends our work to high school college advising offices through tailored consulting focused on helping school counselors and staff improve college advising and supporting students to find their best-fit college. Our Career Mentoring Initiative focuses on career coaching and access to workforce opportunities through experiential learning and connects Scholars with accomplished professionals in their chosen fields. Our Wellness Program addresses the needs facing low-income students who disproportionately experience higher rates of mental health problems and unmet mental health needs.
Scholars Program
Our Scholars Program provides comprehensive college counseling, targeted tutoring, test preparation, study skills, leadership training, and ongoing support, beginning in 10th grade and continuing through successful college graduation. The result is 89% of CDI Scholars graduate from college within six years.
School Support Program
Our School Support Program shares our best practices with high school college counselors, giving them the knowledge necessary to get their students on the path to a college degree by using a model for student success that defies conventional wisdom and outpaces national averages.
Career Mentoring Initiative
Through our newly formed Career Mentoring Initiative CDI works with Scholars in college and program alumni to focus on career coaching and access to workforce opportunities through experiential learning that connects talented Scholars with accomplished professionals in their chosen fields.
Wellness Program
Our Wellness Program addresses the needs facing low-income students who disproportionately experience higher rates of mental health problems and unmet mental health needs.