Denver Teaching Fellows seeks outstanding professionals and recent graduates to make a difference in the lives of the students who need you the most by becoming teachers in some of our highest-need public schools. Do you want to be a part of what can truly make Denver great?

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic majors and career interests who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. This year, a corps of 56 of the nation’s most promising future leaders are teaching in our city’s lowest-income classrooms as a part of Teach For America • Denver. They are working to ensure their students have the educational opportunities they deserve. Our alumni are a leadership force, working from within education and every professional sector to effect broader change. Together they are helping us make educational equity a reality in Denver.

Providing Access to Higher Education for Hispanics in Colorado

LARASA, an agency committed to the Latino community, will lead a collaborative effort to move the state of Colorado toward a future with no disparities in education, health, economic status, decision-making, or leadership in both the public and private sectors.

SHPE Colorado is the leading social-technical Colorado Hispanic organization whose primary function is to enhance and achieve the potential of Hispanics in engineering, math and science.

1. Professional Development
2. Academic Excellence
3. Graduate Technical Education
4. Programming, Improving and Strengthening our Organizational Infrastructure
5. Marketing our SHPE Colorado Organization

CO.R.N. Mission: To identify, communicate, and collaborate with leadership working to resolve education, economic development, health/social, and legal/safety issues in our diverse CommUNITYs while holding accountable ourselves and others impacting these CommUNITYs.

JA is a non-profit business education organization whose purpose is to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business and economics to improve the quality of their lives. JA uses hands-on experiences to help students understand the "economics of life."

Focusing on workforce readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy, JA brings the real world to students, opening their minds to their potential. This mission is achieved by inviting trained volunteers to go into the classrooms to present the JA programs at no cost to the schools.

Our mission is to advance the economic success of Latino families through our three program areas - business, career, and youth and family development.

Hope Online Learning Academy Co-Op is an online public charter school that provides a high-quality education for k-12 students.

Hope Online has created an innovative learning model based upon proven methods that utilize individualized instruction. Students have the option to access the curriculum at a Hope Online Learning Center or at home, each coupled with the support from

Alpha Phi Omega is a national co-ed community service organization and fraternity. Our mission is to provide service to our community, to our campus, and to the nation, while making friends and having fun. If you're looking for a way to give back, you've found it. If you're looking for a way to meet great new people, you've found it. If you're looking for fun, you've found it.

Gamma Theta is the CU-Boulder chapter of Alpha Phi Omega.

Our mission is to make youth voice real in school renewal to increase student achievement though:

• Action
• Research
• Leadership Development
• Community Partnerships

Balarat Outdoor Education Center has been a part of Denver Public Schools since the late 1960s. In 1975, Balarat launched the fifth grade residential program. Since then, Balarat has continued to offer residential programs to fifth graders, and has expanded to offer outdoor education experiences to third graders, middle school students, and high school students.

Currently, Balarat Outdoor Education Center serves over 10,000 students each year! At Balarat, we continually strive to offer relevant educational opportunities that help students connect their experiences with classroom learning.

Colorado MESA is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization under the Colorado Minority Engineering Association (CMEA). Our Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) program is designed to encourage minority and female students to prepare themselves for a college education and to major in mathematics, engineering or science.

The MESA program is a premier educational resource and experiential program, serving students in grades P-12. MESA's mission is to increase the numbers of economically disadvantaged and at risk students who graduate from high school fully prepared for post secondary education in engineering, mathematics, science, computer science, business, and other math- and science-based fields. MESA programs provide the educational resources and experiences students need to be successful in these pursuits. To accomplish its goals, trained MESA advisors, usually math and science teachers, implement MESA after-school programs in their schools. The state MESA office and newly developed University MESA Centers provide professional development training and networking for advisors as well as hands-on, project-oriented curriculum and materials, university mentors and academic resources.

Mile High Youth Corps improves communities and the lives of youth by putting young people to work in urban neighborhoods, public parks and open spaces. We have a 16-year track record of engaging youth in jobs that help the planet and provide pathways to a promising future. By integrating paid work experience on community projects with career exploration, education and lifeskills training, the Corps helps youth develop the skills they need to succeed in the classroom, the workforce and everyday life. Through hands-on service, youth gain the knowledge, skills and motivation they need to make positive changes in their own lives, their community and the world.

MISSION: Shorter Community African Methodist Episcopal Church, a Christ-centered family of believers, is committed to the saving of souls and the empowerment of all humankind through the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ Jesus. We will accomplish this mission through five foundation principles:

• Worship (John 4:24)
• Fellowship (Acts 2:42-47)
• Discipleship (Matthew 28:19-20)
• Evangelism (Mark 16:15)
• Service/Mission (John 9:4)