Corporate Philanthropy
Evan Hochberg National Director of Community Involvement Deloitte llp
Creating a College-going Culture A college education is a determining
operational and has cut production time on critical
factor in professional success and one of the most ef-
reports by 75 percent, enabling College Summit
fective ways to break the cycle of poverty. Annually,
to spend more time helping individual students,
nearly 200,000 college-capable high school gradu-
instead of crunching numbers. The cutting-edge
ates from low-income families do not enroll in
technology also provides analysis of what encour-
college or even submit a college application. For
ages more students to go to college so that College
many students, high school is a destination—with a
Summit and its school partners can use the data to
diploma and graduation being the end goal.
improve their programs.
College Summit views high school as a launching
Deloitte’s integrated support is valued at more
pad for college and career success. It is the largest
than $2 million. In addition to the data services,
schoolwide college-access provider in the country,
other commitments include:
working with 200 high schools that serve 17,000
graduates and 80,000 total students. At the core of
Awards for College Enrollment Achievement
the organization is the belief that high schools should
and Innovation being awarded in communities
use research-based indicators to track college enrollment rates. Such a practice creates a college-going culture that can dramatically increase the number
across the country.
lege enrollment preparation (most volunteers
school districts have the ability to track those rates
of any company).
reliably, but College Summit and Deloitte are work
• Board service, nationally and locally, to contribute leadership.
Given Deloitte’s deep knowledge and experience
in developing complex measurement systems, a
• Skills-based volunteering at College Summit summer workshops to jump-start students’ col-
of students enrolling in college. Only a handful of
ing together to change that.
• Creation and sponsorship of the Deloitte
• Capacity-building philanthropy.
major focus of our relationship with College Summit is to meet this national challenge by contributing pro bono services to develop a database capable of efficiently and effectively measuring college enrollment rates across entire cities. At the conclusion of our first year working together, the database is fully
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