00 / Get involved

You are the intervention.

Beyond giving, the most powerful thing you can offer a Scholar is your time and your network. Mentor, speak, host, or partner — and become the cross-class relationship the research says changes everything.

01 / Give time the way you'd give money

Looking to give money instead? Donate →

1 hour

Speak

Tell a cohort how you got here. One talk. Scholars taking notes.

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Half a day

Host

Open your office. A site visit Scholars will reference for years.

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1 hr / month

Mentor

The highest-impact seat in the program. One Scholar, six years, one phone that gets answered.

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Our signature fundraiser

Come to Sunday for Scholars

Our signature afternoon at the Houston Polo Club. Buy a seat, sponsor a table, or bring the colleague who should meet this program.

Details
coming soon
SFS 2026

02 / Why you, specifically

The strongest predictor of a kid's economic mobility isn't school quality. It's knowing people like you.

Harvard's Opportunity Insights mapped 21 billion friendships across 72 million people and found that friendships across class lines outpredicted school quality, income, and every other community factor they tested. When you mentor a Scholar, host a site visit, or speak to a cohort, you create exactly that.

Chetty et al., Nature (2022) — Opportunity Insights

Be the person they know.