Collaboration is key to GEAR UP 4 LA’s success. As such, we have built strong partnerships with colleges and universities, businesses, and a wide range of community-based organizations to increase academic performance, foster college and career readiness, and promote financial aid awareness among first-generation students and their families. We are proud to partner with the following entities.
Community Partners
All Aboard Tours
All Aboard Tours introduces GEAR UP students and their families to life on college campuses in California and out of state to increase early college awareness and help them think about college fit.
Cal State Dominguez Hills
Cal State Dominguez Hills provides college visits, summer enrichment, summer melt advising, and first-year advising as well as a male success summit.
Cal State Los Angeles
Cal State L.A. hosts college visits and parent academies to bolster college knowledge, hands-on summer writing and STEAM camps, and first year advising.
Chicano-a Latino-a Education Foundation (CLEF)
The Chicano-a Latino-a Educational Foundation (CLEF) helps families navigate the college preparation, application, and financial aid process and provides workshops, trainings, career academies, and writing bootcamps.
CoBro Consulting, LLC
Specializing in GEAR UP programs, CoBro Consulting, LLC provides data management and evaluation services to GU4LA, individualized to meet the program’s needs.
East Los Angeles College
East Los Angeles College (ELAC) emphasizes career technical education for middle and high school students, highlighting career pathways through bootcamps, dual enrollment, and the Jaime Escalante Math program.
Families in Schools
Families in Schools helps first-generation families develop college-going mindsets and overcome success barriers through workshops and trainings from middle school through the transition to college.
The Graphic Element
The Graphic Element provides website design and development services to ensure GEAR UP provides students and families with accurate online information about services.
Junior Achievement
Junior Achievement provides training, hands-on curriculum, and support services to help develop the knowledge and skills necessary to make smart academic and economic choices.
Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles City College (LACC) provides tutoring, career technical education college visits, Career Pathways academies, dual enrollment, and first year advising.
Los Angeles Mission College
Los Angeles Mission College (LAMC) provides career technical education, college visits, Career Pathways Academies, parent college visits, dual enrollment, mentor camps, and first year advising.
Los Angeles Trade Technical College
Los Angeles Trade Technical College (LATTC) supports career technical educational opportunities, parent college visits, STEAM pathway dual enrollment, and free English and CTE classes for parents.
National Council for Community and Education Partnerships
National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) advances college access through advocacy, training, and research, developing tools and resources to provide educational opportunities for all students.
Occidental College
Occidental College’s (OXY) Neighborhood Partnership Program (NPP) is an integral partner that hires a portion of our staff and enriches students’ experience through college tours, mentor camps, and family events.
The PLUS ME Project
Proof Learners Ultimately Succeed with Motivation and Education (PLUS ME) empowers students and parents to discover, develop, and share their own personal narratives and build confidence.
The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review provides students with 24/7 tutoring through Tutor.com, Roadmap to College bilingual workshops, and other college resources.
Seeds Training
Seeds Training designs and delivers educational programs that build life, leadership, and learning skills in staff through personal coaching and social-emotional development.
Signal Vine
Via this two-way text messaging platform, GEAR UP teams aim to improve college access, outreach, and engagement by delivering personalized and group text messages with important reminders to students and parents.
Skylarx
Skylarx provides GEAR UP with advocacy strategy, capacity building, and leadership development to foster internal strength for external results.
Southern California College Attainment Network
The Southern California College Attainment Network (SoCal Can) advocates for low-income, first-generation students to access and complete a college degree and shares effective practices with educators.
Study Smart Tutors
Through various workshops, Study Smart Tutors provides students with the tools to study, set goals, manage assignments, and explore careers.
Student Success Agency
Student Success Agency pairs GEAR UP students with near-peer mentors to provide one-on-one support, including academic, college advising, motivation, and career prep via smart phones.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments provides professional development and coaching for teachers and staff to enhance instructional practices with a STEM focus, content knowledge, rigor, and technology integration.
UC Merced
UC Merced’s support services include a leadership weekend, overnight campus visits, enrollment coaches, a parent night, UC application workshops, support for students who enroll in the university, and more. Staff also take part in its High School Educator program.