Through our Pathway Programs Aum Foundation provides mentorship and enrichment to under resourced girls to teach them the skills to live a life of prosperity. The Aum Foundation offers
• Pathway 2 Opportunity (P2O) for under-resourced female high school students in their junior year.
• Pathway 2 Success (P2S) for under-resourced female high school students in their senior year.
• Pathway 2 Empowerment (P2E) for graduates of P2S who want to maintain a mentor relationship during their first year of higher education. Through these programs, students gain experience and insight into their career path, while also building life skills to aid them in breaking generational poverty and preparing them for the workforce. We encourage our participants to develop and implement a comprehensive education and career plan through mentoring, enrichment programs, and job shadowing. The end goal of our program is to provide our girls with the tools to achieve higher education degrees, economic independence, and, in turn, give back to the community. Our programs help students to identify their academic and career goals through a combination of the following six components:
1. Mentoring – It’s not what you know, it's who you know! The role of the mentor is to guide the mentee through personal and professional knowledge, experience, and expertise. Each student is thoughtfully paired with a professional woman from our community. Our mentors volunteer their time and resources to make a vital difference in the lives of our students. The amazing thing is they get out of it as much as the students.
2. Enrichment/Life Skill Classes – Knowledge is power! Girls will be empowered through classes that will orient them towards personal, academic, and professional success. These classes guide the students through a variety of topics to prepare them for the “real world”. All classes are presented by subject matter experts with topics ranging from Conflict Resolution, Interviewing Techniques, Budgeting & Financing to Self Esteem, Communication, and Time Management.
3. Career Exploration – You don’t know what you don’t know! An amazing component of our programs is Career Exploration. The Aum staff reaches out to local professionals to arrange for job shadowing experiences. This helps students get a real world feel for jobs, decipher their career path, and makes for an advantageous addition to college and professional resumes.
4. Private ACT Tutoring – Each student is provided with private or small group ACT tutoring to facilitate test-taking skills and content mastery in order to achieve higher scores. With achieving higher scores comes the opportunity to minimize the financial aid burden college students face.
5. Financial Assistance – Graduates of the P2S program will receive up to a $2000.00 scholarship to be used towards any higher education or trade skill certification.
6. Tools for Schools – Upon completion of P2S, each student will receive a laptop to assist in their college studies. P2O students receive a tablet to help them access and apply for scholarships. And students are given a TI-84 graphing calculator for ACT prep and beyond. The website address is : www.aumfoundationusa.org
The Federal Identification number is : 87-2555726
It is a 501c3 organization so all donations can be a tax write off.
