Sponsor a Youth

Empower a Student — Sponsor a Leader of Tomorrow Today!

Every young person deserves the chance to shine, grow, and reach their full potential. With a one-time donation or just a few dollars a month, you can be the spark that helps a student thrive, opening doors to education, mentorship, and life-changing opportunities. Your support provides essential resources, hands-on workshops, leadership training, and personalized mentorship, equipping youth with the tools they need to excel in school, develop confidence, and chase their dreams fearlessly.

Now, meet some of our incredible young leaders—future change makers, innovators, and trailblazers.

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  • Major: Behavioral and Community Health Sciences

    Future Goals: This support will be incredibly helpful to me as an incoming master’s student living out of state. In the future, I hope to apply the skills and knowledge I gain through my program to help address the ongoing crisis in Black maternal health outcomes.

    Support needed for Fall 2025:

    • Housing = $6,250 (Rent- $1,100/ month + Utilities- $160/month)

    • Assigned Parking (Apartment) = $475 ($95/month)

    • Groceries = $500/month 

    • Gas = $200/month 

    • Textbooks= $500

  • Major: Biochemistry major with a minor in Public Health

    Future Goals: I’m currently a sophomore at UCLA majoring in Biochemistry. As a proud Chicana and first-generation college student, my journey has been shaped by resilience, faith, and community. I moved to the U.S. in 4th grade and have worked hard to overcome language barriers and long commutes just to access opportunity. My love for science was sparked through hands-on programs in high school, and today I’m committed to pursuing a career that blends science and service, while proving that our backgrounds never define our limits. Support like this allows me to continue dreaming big, supporting my family, and showing up for my community both inside and outside the classroom.

    Estimated Needs for Fall 2025

    • Rent: $2,700 total ($450/month)

    • Business Casual Clothing/Shoes: $250 per quarter

    • School Supplies (MacBook case, notebooks, etc.): $150

  • Adelene B.

    Major: Masters in Social Welfare

    Future Goals: My goal is to graduate with an MSW, obtain my LSCW, and return to Skid Row, where I grew up as a homeless youth, to provide vital counseling services to homeless women and young girls who share similar experiences. This montary gift would be a game-changer, lifting the weight of financial stress and giving me the bandwidth to fully dedicate myself to my studies and ultimately,  allowing me to give back by working to serve a vulnerable community I once was homeless in. 

    Estimated Support Needed for Fall 2025:

    • Housing: $2263 total ($650/month)

    • Bus pass: $150 total

    • Textbooks: $100

  • Major: Biology and Spanish

    Future Goals: My name is Miriam García, and I’m a first-generation college graduate with partial hearing loss, born in the U.S. and raised in the U.S. since age 14. I recently earned my bachelor’s degree in Biology with a double major in Spanish from San Diego State University. Throughout my journey, I’ve worked multiple jobs to help support my family, especially my younger sister, whom I helped raise and support through school. Today, she’s a proud student at UCLA, and I’m continuing to pursue my own dream of becoming a medical researcher.

    Despite financial and personal obstacles, I’ve recently been accepted into the highly competitive California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) program, where I’ll be conducting cancer stem cell research. This opportunity is a huge step toward my goal of contributing to life-saving science, especially for communities like mine that are often overlooked in healthcare.

    Support from this program would help me cover basic living expenses while I participate in this full-time research program. It would allow me to focus more on growing as a scientist and advocate proof that no barrier, whether financial or physical, can stop someone determined to give back.

    Estimated Needs for Fall 2025:

    • Housing: $2,400 total ($400/month)
      Gas: $300 per semester

    • Textbooks & Supplies: $300 total

    • Business Casual Clothing/Shoes: $250

    • School Supplies: $200

    • Groceries/Meal Plan Assistance: $600 total

  • Major: Psychology

    Future Goals: As a first-generation college student who has experience in foster care, I’ve had to fight for every opportunity just to get where I am today. Pursuing higher education hasn’t been easy, and I continue to face challenges as I work toward my goals. Support like this would help me cover essential needs and stay focused on building a better future. My dream is to become a clinical psychologist so I can provide mental health care to those who need it most especially youth who’ve experienced trauma. Your generosity means more than words can express. It shows me that I’m not alone on this journey, and that someone believes in my future. Thank you for believing in me.

    Estimated Support needed for Fall 2025:

    • Rent: $7,020 total ($1,170/month) 

    • Professional Clothing: $200 

    • Transportation: $300 

    • Hygiene Products: $200

  • Major: Sociology

    Future Goals: I hold an associate’s degree in special education, inspired by my autistic siblings, and currently in the UCLA Anderson Forecast Fellow Program at Cal State University Dominguez Hills, I’m researching the foster system and housing crisis, where my work will be published. With your support I will be able to financially take care of my autistic siblings without worrying paycheck to paycheck.

    Estimated Needs for Fall 2025:

    • Housing: $2,400 Rent ($400 per month)

    • Driving Lessons $500 (3 two hour lessons w/ instructor)

    • Groceries $200