Every young person deserves access to an excellent education and the encouragement to succeed, but long-standing and complex inequities create gaps that disproportionately prevent some students from getting the resources and support they need to attend college. For more than 25 years, Breakthrough Atlanta has been closing these gaps.

To combat summer learning loss that occurs among students whose families don’t have the means to pay for quality summer enrichment—and to address education inequities resulting from systemic societal barriers—we engage students while they’re in middle school—a time of tremendous academic, developmental, and social change. Through summer and yearlong programming and support, Breakthrough Atlanta works with students and their parents or caregivers to enable a successful pathway to high school graduation, college, and beyond. And by simultaneously offering a hands-on teaching internship experience unlike any other for college students, we create a critical pipeline of future educators.