Let's Get Ready’s vision is to have a meaningful, transformative, national impact on central areas of disparity in college degree attainment ensuring that all students are able to reach their most aspirational post-secondary goals, entering adulthood with abundant confidence, choice and opportunity. In FY25, Let's Get Ready served nearly 33,000 students across all 50 [...]
Dual Enrollment Works Best When Systems Are Built Around Students At the end of 2025, I had the opportunity to attend the Educate Maine Conference alongside several of my colleagues. Spending time with students, state leaders, educators, and workforce partners was both energizing and grounding. It reminded me that while policies, programs, and credits [...]
Let's Get Ready (LGR) partners with amazing institutions, school districts, charter school networks, CBOs, and nonprofit organizations across the country. Many of LGR's students have the support of multiple communities to support their journey to a college degree. LGR Partner Talks explores the larger ecosystem of partners, program staff, and coaches that are bridging [...]
Let's Get Ready (LGR) is the nation's leading student-to-student college coaching organization, and this year LGR will support more than 30,000 students nationwide. Through its virtual, near-peer mentoring program, LGR addresses the enormous, pervasive national gap in college degree attainment for first-generation, low-income students.This Giving Tuesday, your support has twice the power! A Let's Get [...]
We are excited to invite you to learn more about the exciting achievements of Let's Get Ready's students and program in our 2024 Impact & Insights Report! This is a report shares more insights on what LGR is learning as we support more than 25,000 students across the country and you get ready to [...]
Three years ago Let’s Get Ready set out on an ambitious strategic plan. One of the goals was to double the number of students we serve annually from 12,000 to 25,000 students by 2025. We are proud to announce that we have achieved this goal and are currently serving more than 25,000 [...]
Your At Let’s Get Ready, we know that great coaching does not happen by accident. It takes support, guidance, and the right tools. That is why we created LGR360, our go-to platform for ongoing, on-your-own-time training and development.Through LGR360, coaches can access short, practical courses designed around their day-to-day work and focused [...]
You Made LGR United a Night to Remember! 🎉Thank you for joining us at LGR United – what a night! We came together for an evening of gratitude, celebrating how our students, coaches, parents, alumni, current and former staff & board members, and so many others have contributed to the success and legacy of Let’s [...]
The State of the Organization 2024 was an inspiring evening celebrating the progress and impact of Let's Get Ready's mission to support 25,000 students annually by 2025. If you missed the live event, don't worry—you can still be part of the journey! Watch the full event and experience the powerful stories [...]
When I was appointed CEO of Let’s Get Ready (LGR) in August 2019, after serving as Chief Program Officer for three years, I was both a new mom and a new leader feeling at times overwhelmed by these new roles and responsibilities. At the start, I was unsure if I had the skills and [...]