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Your gift creates opportunity
Every gift to SEO fuels life-changing opportunities for ambitious young people. Your support provides academic enrichment, mentorship, career access, and one-on-one guidance that helps take students from high school graduation to and through college, and launch meaningful careers beyond. You’re not just making a donation, you’re investing in human potential and shaping brighter futures.
Talent is Everywhere, Opportunity is Not
Learn more about the SEO Scholar journey.
“SEO is different because it doesn’t just prepare you to graduate; it prepares you for life. It prepares you for your career and builds the skills you need to be successful in real life.”
Justina Bethune SEO Scholars ‘22
“The SEO Scholars program has shown me the value of pursuing ambitious opportunities and aligning my passions with meaningful work in the community. This summer, I’m thrilled to work with the Farmlink Project as a FIELD Fellow, designing initiatives that connect food security with health and wellness in Chicago. ”
Anthony Buchfuhrer SEO Scholars ‘23
“SEO’s help in networking with my peers and connecting with professors and advisors made all the difference in landing my internship. I’m thrilled that this summer I’ll be working at the Mayo Clinic as a Student Nurse Intern, working with nurse preceptors in the emergency department!”
Jennifer Tsang SEO Scholars ‘22
Give the gift of education and career success
Our amazing community of supporters helps ensure SEO students stay on their path to and through college — with a 85% college graduation rate — and beyond.
Your individual support is essential in ensuring SEO Scholars get the resources they need for their 8-year journey (high school to and through college) with SEO.
Enjoy tax advantages by donating directly from your donor advised fund. Give now from your donor advised funds.
Automatic, recurring donations allow you to contribute regularly at a level that works for you. SEO relies on this steady financial support throughout the year.
Our family of foundations and corporations who make annual or multi-year grants to SEO demonstrate an investment in opportunity and play a huge role in making the world a better place. Your support of SEO’s educational and career opportunities help our dedicated and talented young people succeed.
Does your employer offer a matching gift program? Multiply the impact you have on SEO students through a matching gift donation!
Are your friends and colleagues looking for something meaningful to support? Share your passion for SEO and the opportunity to make a difference via your own personal campaign.
Help our Scholars attend a top-tier or first choice college. Your major multi-year contribution helps close the tuition gap and change the life of a Scholar.
Established in memory of Andrew Golkin by his friends and family who lost him on September 11, 2001, this fund provides scholarships and emergency funds to ensure that SEO Scholars persist through college.
SEO Legacy Society
The SEO Legacy Society is a special group of visionary donors who are making a lasting investment in closing the educational and career opportunity gaps for future generations of ambitious young people. Your planned gift — whether through a bequest, retirement assets, life insurance, or other estate planning tools — ensures your enduring commitment to advancing long-term impact.
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The generosity of supporters like you has made all of the milestones our Scholars achieve possible. SEO is committed to being a responsible steward of your investment, earning top ratings from independent evaluators and ensuring that every dollar directly fuels enrichment, mentorship, and long-term success for motivated public high school students.
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