Let's Get Ready (LGR) has been working with students in Maine for more than a decade to make sure they can reach all their college aspirations. On July 19th, we sponsored a special evening at The McKernan Center of Southern Maine Community College (SMCC), our newest partner, to celebrate our longstanding collaborations in the [...]
Join us in welcoming Elliot Urgent – our Careers in the Common Good summer intern! Elliot is a rising junior at Brown University, concentrating in International and Public Affairs with a focus on policy. At Brown, he is heavily involved with the music community, co-founding the Brown Organization of Producers and Songwriters and working [...]
Let's Get Ready (LGR) has partnered with Blackstone and InnerView Education to present Career Night on Wednesday, August 24th — a virtual event where LGR students will have the opportunity to develop their personal brand and learn how to articulate their professional mission. The one-hour workshop will be facilitated by InnerView Education followed by [...]
Let’s Get Ready (LGR) has partnered with the University of Maine System (UMS) Early College (EC) Program to provide rising high school seniors graduating in 2023 with FREE text-based mentorship and assistance with the college application process. Current college students, trained by LGR, will serve as near-peer mentors and provide guidance on selecting the [...]
Join us in welcoming Ella Harris – our RISE Fellow summer intern! Ella is a rising sophomore at Princeton and a prospective Psychology major with possible certificates in African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. She matched with Let’s Get Ready through Princeton RISE (Recognizing Inequities and Standing for Equality), a fellowship program [...]
The core of Let's Get Ready's mission is creating educational equity and equality. Check out the video below to hear from Brook Payner, Chair of LGR’s Board of Directors, and Adam Elbaz, member of LGR’s Associates Council about why this work is important to them.
As you know, Let’s Get Ready is embarking on a strategic plan to grow to serve 25K students per year by 2025. Watch the video below to hear from our CEO, our Chief Program Officer, and our Managing Director of Development about why this work is important and what makes LGR’s approach unique and [...]
Let’s Get Ready’s program is built around our near-peer coaching model, in which current college students serve as paid mentors to younger high school and college students. “I was excited to get to work directly with students, especially in a mentor role… I have learned so much from the students as well and [...]
In 2021, Let’s Get Ready launched an ambitious strategic plan with a goal of serving 25,000 students per year by 2025. A critical component of that work is to develop and expand partnerships with high schools, colleges, and other community-based organizations so that we can reach more students in our existing communities as well [...]
Earlier this year, an incredibly generous donor invested $500,000 in Let’s Get Ready to help us implement our strategic plans and meet our ambitious goal of growing to serve 25,000 students each year. A longtime supporter of LGR, this donor and his family were not only inspired to make this catalyzing gift, [...]