First Graduate: Helping first generation students graduate from College. Talking to Terri Forman CEO.

That's such a great example, and I'm glad you gave us that example because one of the benefits of going to college – and you alluded to this at the outset – one of the benefits of going to college is not only to get a great education, to get a degree, to launch yourself in a satisfying and lucrative career – that all goes without saying – But you're also perhaps a little more connected to society in terms of giving back, being a volunteer.

And what better organization to volunteer with than the one that helped to bring you along? So obviously what you're doing works.

Yes.

It does.

It does.

We have lots of proofs of performance, and it's quite wonderful to see that and experience it.

We just actually had one of our alums.

Can I name a company? Of course.

Absolutely.

Okay.

One of our alumni is now working with BlackRock that has been supporting us with volunteers and some funding.

And a couple of weeks ago, we became one of their...

One of the 13 beneficiaries that they funded through their annual benefit.

And so again, that was facilitated because of an alum.

So it's just a remarkable story and we hope that those kinds of things keep on going.

That must be so satisfying to you as CEO and for your board to say, you know, we were successful and these kids are coming back and we've sown the seeds that these kids are going to be able to continue doing this 10, 20, 30 years out.

And they in turn will.

will inspire other kids.

So you've obviously got something, you've done something right there.

You've done a lot of things right.

But that says to me, that to me, that's proof of concept right there.

So very impressive.

Exactly.

It's fun because we also have alums or college students who say, you know, my cousin's now going to go to college.

because of this program.