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Breakthrough Wins Big as Benefiting Nonprofit at Start Up Games
In mid-January, Breakthrough attended the Startup Games as a benefiting nonprofit, where Austin’s best startups competed in a day of games to raise money for a good cause! A big shout out to SpareFoot for taking home 2nd place! Thank you for helping create first-generation college graduates
AmeriCorps Members Give Back on Martin Luther King Jr Day
On January 15, Breakthrough AmeriCorps members honored the legacy of Dr. King by volunteering alongside American YouthWorks to clean up the historic Burdett Prairie Cemetery in the Montopolis neighborhood. They joined hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country in a day of service!
Now Hiring Teaching Fellows: Spend a Summer Teaching and Earn a Lifetime of Memories
We are looking for enthusiastic high school seniors and college students to join the Breakthrough team as AmeriCorps Summer Teaching Fellows! Teaching Fellows will lead their own classroom to teach English, math, social studies, or science to small classes of middle school students
Breakthrough becomes one of the first three grantees of the Cory Redding Foundation
Breakthrough Central Texas has been chosen as one of the first three grantees of the Cory Redding Foundation receiving $7500 to continue our work in helping create first generation college graduates and providing educational opportunities to youth in Austin.
The Class of 2018 Needs Your Help! #GivingTuesday
For the first time in the history of Breakthrough we will be participating in Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving. All funds raised will go towards supporting Veronica and the rest of the Breakthrough Class of 2018. With 96 high school seniors...
My Breakthrough Experience: Grecia Lopez
It was during my sixth grade year that two Breakthrough staff members, Ana and Brian, came to my school during Social Studies class. They explained how Breakthrough would help me for 12 years until I graduated from college. That got my attention.