Canal Alliance’s UP! Program Bolstered by Recent Funding 

Each year, Canal Alliance’s UP! Program serves approximately 150 low-income Latino youth, supporting them as they work to graduate from high school and complete a four-year college degree.  

This college readiness program, which begins in sixth grade and continues through middle school and high school, is designed around five pillars that research has shown to be crucial for student success: academic readiness, social-emotional skills, family engagement, college admission, and financial readiness. Through UP!, students receive intensive afterschool academic support, including tutoring in core subjects, homework assistance, social-emotional learning, behavioral health support, enrichment activities, family coaching, parent engagement, and college application assistance.  

Once in college, Canal Alliance provides ongoing support to students to help them complete a four-year degree through our newly expanded College to Career (C2C) Program, which provides ongoing social-emotional and behavioral health support, scholarship assistance, and academic tutoring. 

The program, thanks to our incredible staff and students, and the support of many funders, continues to celebrate monumental successes year to year. Successes like: 95% re-enrollment rate, 100% high school graduation rate for our seniors, and a 100% college enrollment rate. 

We are so proud of our progress, of our students. We are grateful to funders like the Alexander M. and June L. Maisin Foundation, that contributed $20,000 in March, and Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Community Benefit Programs, that contributed $50,000 in May, for making this work possible.