Our Goal Card program teaches public school students how to set and achieve academic, financial and life goals. The incentive program provides structured academic mentoring and support from adult volunteers, who lend their time and insight to provide ongoing encouragement and guidance. Students earn points for their achievements, which are redeemable for school supplies, gift cards and small electronic items. They can also choose to bank their points for even bigger rewards. Goal Card students continue to have a 100% graduation rate.
Interested in participating in Goal Card?
TO QUALIFY
- Students must be in grades 5-12
- Be a student at Cummings (Elementary – 8th grade), LaRose Elementary, Booker T. Washington Middle and High School, or Bellevue Middle School
THANK YOU
TESTIMONIAL
“RISE Memphis is the epitome of what collaboration between a school and a community organization should be as it pertains to a working relationship. The Goal Card program offers an opportunity for our customers to be exposed and educated for personal integrity, civic awareness, work place literacy and academic achievement. Every school should be afforded an opportunity to work with serious, concerned and determined people who believe in making it happen, as opposed to those who talk about making it happen. Kudos to the RISE Memphis!”
Leviticus S. Pointer
Shelby County Schools Principal
STATS
Goal Card serves
400 students
students at the participating schools
Founded in 2003, Goal Card has served more than 9,000 students to date.
As of June 2022, Goal Card has graduated 18 Melrose CSA seniors with a combined total of $11,762.77 in savings and $21,655.03 in total disbursements. These funds were used to assist in first year college related expenses for our program participants.
Our 5th grade participants in Goal Card’s Pennies-a-Day coin savings program have saved over $800 in coins since its 2018 inception.
During the 2021-2022 school year, Goal Card graduated 80 high school seniors and promoted 73 fifth-grade participants to middle school and 124 eighth-grade participants have been promoted to high school. The remaining 146 program participants (grades 6-7 and 9-11) have successfully passed to the next grade level.
Colleges and universities in which former Goal Card participants are enrolled or have attended include:
GALLERY
CONTACT
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