Meeting Program: Sisu Academy

Our mission is to support underserved and disengaged high school youth with a tuition-free boarding school education. This will allow us to move our students from environments that are inhibiting their success to becoming community leaders. The model is both exciting and unique. We believe that providing a project-based education with a focus on entrepreneurial skills, while having wraparound services on campus, is essential to our students’ success. Because we are a boarding school, we have more time in each week to devote to our students. We are able to work on many types of curriculum through project based learning including financial literacy and public speaking skills. And we will address important social and emotional issues required for future success. We do all this while also building a long-term self-funding model. We are a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that is creating an internal, sustaining, accelerator on campus to create revenue and allow us to remain tuition-free.