Evelyn looks every bit the professional chef in her school uniform just months before earning her diploma in gastronomy. Now that she has graduated, she plans to offer courses to other people in her community who like to cook. September 2021. At just 14 years old,...
Henry entered CoEd’s Rise Program in 2017 as a shy ninth-grader. Today, he’s a successful graduate thanks to his own hard work, his family’s investment in him, and his Rise sponsors—who believed in his future. They say hard work pays off, but what do...
Jeydi, an 8th grader with a bright future, is determined to become a pediatrician and own her own business someday. Thanks to CoEd’s Rise Youth Development Program, she is one step closer to achieving her dreams! Meet Jeydi, an ambitious 8th grader from Santa...
Joe and Jeff Berninger may not have known how things would unfold when they founded Cooperative for Education (CoEd) in 1996, but wow, are we glad they did! Starting from humble beginnings at a kitchen table in a tiny Guatemala City apartment, they launched CoEd with...
If you sponsor a student in the Rise Youth Development Program or you’ve been supporting CoEd for a while, you know that a Rise scholarship provides so much more than an academic scholarship—because students are facing much more than economic barriers. On top of...
We all have those moments in our lives that we remember because of the lasting impact they have. There are the obvious ones such as weddings, the birth of children, the Bengals making the Super Bowl (WHO DEY), etc. Then there are the ones that might not be...
