Nov 6Behind every student parent working toward a degree is a journey that takes determination, sacrifice, and support.To our donors, thank you for believing in HOPE’s mission. Your generosity helps ease everyday challenges for student parents, giving them more room to focus on their education and their families. 🎓 Your support is part of what makes this work possible. We’re grateful to have you alongside us as we help student parents move closer to graduation and build brighter futures for their children. #supportnonprofits #atlantanonprofit #singleparents #supportsinglemoms #momsincollege #communityimpactLatest
Nov 6Behind every student parent working toward a degree is a journey that takes determination, sacrifice, and support.To our donors, thank you for believing in HOPE’s mission. Your generosity helps ease everyday challenges for student parents, giving them more room to focus on their education and their families. 🎓 Your support is part of what makes this work possible. We’re grateful to have you alongside us as we help student parents move closer to graduation and build brighter futures for their children. #supportnonprofits #atlantanonprofit #singleparents #supportsinglemoms #momsincollege #communityimpact
For three years, I've been fighting two battles.♥ 18 · Oct 20
There’s a lot that happens behind the scenes of a student parent’s journey.♥ 10 · Oct 5
There is a single mom right now doing everything she can to keep going.♥ 10 · Aug 25
Happy MEDAL Monday 🏅🏃🏽♀️🏃🏼🎉 Because it's finally RACE week!♥ 9 · Sep 14
Single parents already carry enough.♥ 9 · Aug 11
Support can look different in every season.♥ 8 · Oct 9
For three years, I've been fighting two battles.
♥ 18 · Oct 20
There’s a lot that happens behind the scenes of a student parent’s journey.
♥ 10 · Oct 5
There is a single mom right now doing everything she can to keep going.
♥ 10 · Aug 25
Happy MEDAL Monday 🏅🏃🏽♀️🏃🏼🎉 Because it's finally RACE week!
♥ 9 · Sep 14
Single parents already carry enough.
♥ 9 · Aug 11
Support can look different in every season.
♥ 8 · Oct 9
Childcare AssistanceWe pay up to $400 a month toward childcare. The money goes straight to your childcare provider, every month you are enrolled full time.
- Rent Assistance
We pay up to $400 a month toward your rent or mortgage. The money goes straight to your landlord or lender, every month you are enrolled full time.
- Social Services
Sometimes you need help with something we do not cover. A licensed social worker meets with you and points you to other resources in the community, including help with food, clothes, and car repairs.
Budget Coaching & Life Skill TrainingYou meet one on one with a budget coach every month. Together you work on saving, paying down debt, and building your credit. We also help with resumes, interview practice, and job searching, so you are ready for what comes after graduation.
- Emotional Support & Mentoring
Doing all of this alone is stressful, and how you are feeling affects how you do in school. You can meet with a licensed counselor. Our counselors work with people dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, and domestic violence.
You spend so much time showing up for everyone else.
Nov 3
Lois’s journey reflects something so many mothers understand…
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Sometimes, progress looks like finally being able to breathe.
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You may not know what is possible yet.
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Are you ready?
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A race with purpose.
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Are you REGISTERED???
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Hearing Valerie's WHY will motivate you to run too!
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Azariah’s story is a reminder of what can happen when a parent has the support to keep…
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Sometimes the strongest reason to serve others is knowing what it feels like to need…
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Hope is more than a feeling.
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Your gifts help single parents like Lois finally get the help they deserve!
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Behind every student parent working toward a degree is a journey that takes determination, sacrifice…
Nov 6
🎉 A $25,000 grant means more opportunities for student mothers to keep moving toward their degrees.
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What would finishing your degree make possible for you?
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HOPE is more than a program.
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Small support can make a meaningful difference in a student parent's journey.
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A degree can become part of a family’s story long after graduation.
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Behind every student parent is a family, a responsibility, and a future they are working toward.
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Not every milestone is reached alone.
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Every milestone has a story that most people never see.
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About
Single parents are some of the most resilient people we know, and we created a 501c3 tax-exempt organization to empower, encourage, and equip low-income single parents to obtain a college degree, develop essential life skills, and ultimately become self-sufficient through wrap-around services including financial assistance for housing and childcare, community resources, financial training, and counseling.
H.O.P.E., Inc. stands for Helping Other People be Empowered. Kenita Smith founded it in November 2009, out of her own experience. She was a single parent, and she struggled to finish her BBA and MBA. There was almost no help for parents in her position, and she wanted to change that.
Money is the number one reason students do not finish college, and government aid leaves a gap. It covers rent only if a parent is not working. It covers childcare only for parents earning a diploma or certificate who are living below the poverty line.
That leaves out the parents who are working and going to school to build a better life. Those are the parents we help. We put up to $400 a month toward rent and up to $400 a month toward childcare while you attend a two or four-year accredited college. The money goes straight to your landlord, lender, or licensed childcare provider.
We determine eligibility by conducting an intake and application process. Each individual must provide the following for consideration: