Graduate! Philadelphia

To increase the number of adults completing college in the Greater Philadelphia region, by engaging business, higher education, government, organized labor, workforce and economic development, community building organizations, social service providers, and college graduates to align existing resources, remove barriers, and create new pathways for adults to complete a college degree.

WHY OUR WORK IS IMPORTANT:

• Helping an adult complete a college degree allows them to find a better job and have more job security, in good and bad economic times, oftentimes lifting up their entire family out of poverty. 
• Adults who started college but never finished are closer to graduating than youth, boosting workforce outcomes almost immediately while expanding the tax base. 
• The single largest risk factor for youth dropping out of high school and not succeeding in college is not having an adult in the home with a college degree. Every adult we help, helps the young people in their lives complete high school and college.