Rise First Inc.
Rise First Inc.
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About this organization
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
Rise first empowers first-generation, low-income college students to achieve their full potential by providing a free online platform with website and tools on life and career advice, list of support resources/networks and mentor ship opportunities. as an organization, we operate in an extremely frugal fashion, and rely largely on individual crowdfunding donations to cover operating costs.
- Revenue reported was $12,071.
- Expenses reported were $10,701.
- Other expenses reported $5,231.
- The non-profit reported a excess or deficit for $1,370.
- Other compensation reported was $0.
- Contributions, gifts, and grants reported were $12,071.
- The non-profit filed a copy of the returns in ["DE", "NY"].
Accomplishments
- Legal services to file for rise first trademark protection, created contents to support first-generation, low-income students, and maintained a website, of which curates over 1,200 resources, scholarships, and tools to attract over 1,600 monthly website users and generate over 40,000 social media impressions. Expenses $9,572.
- Developed and maintained three rise first social media channels -- facebook, linkedin, instagram -- to create online social-media communities for first-generation, low-income students, professionals, and supporters. the channels allow rise first to share team updates, product launches, upcoming opportunity deadlines, internships and jobs, and articles relating to the first-generation, low-income experience. the facebook and linkedin pages have about 1,200 followers and 500 followers, respectively. the instagram reached 68 followers within only 10 days from launch. Expenses $0.
- Launched and operated an ongoing rise first blog contest and online publication that has attracted over 10,000 views. the purpose of the blog contest is to allow first-generation, low-income students and professionals to share their journeys, insights, and advice to others. to date, the contest has shared four first-generation, low-income blog narratives, respectively written by a transfer student at columbia university, a graduate from princeton university, a rhodes and truman scholar from the university of pennsylvania, and a full-time lawyer who graduated from nyu school of law. Expenses $120.
- Designed programming, recruited students, and expanded a two-year-old volunteer-based, virtual 8-10 week internship program to provide real-world startup experience and meaningful projects to over 10 students from over 5 college campuses. our interns have been key to building and developing our social media channels, blog contest, data analytics efforts, website renovations, branded creative assets and the college success roadmap. to date, our interns and team members have come from the university of pennsylvania, boston college, cornell university, drexel university, temple university, and the university of texas rio grande valley. Expenses $700.
- Developed and launched two college success roadmap assets and an updated national first-generation, low-income conference calendar for current high school seniors and college students. the purpose of this guide and tool is to help first-generation, low-income students successfully navigate college and support their undergraduate journey. Expenses $0.
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