A Better Chance Celebrates 50 Years of Increasing High-Quality Education for Youth of Color
Approximately 75 directors of admission and diversity from Bay Area independent schools gathered for breakfast at the UC-Berkeley, Clark Kerr Campus Wednesday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of A Better Chance  More

A Better Chance Announces Theo Killion, Chief Executive Officer of Zale Corporation to Receive the 2013 A Better Chance DreamBuilder Award
A Better Chance, a national nonprofit that recruits academically talented and motivated students of color and guides them toward a variety of educational opportunities, announced that Theo Killion, Chief Executive Officer of Zale Corporation (NYSE: ZLC), will receive the 2013 A Better Chance DreamBuilder Award at The 50th Anniversary A Better Chance Awards Dinner to be held on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at Pier Sixty at Chelsea Piers in New York City.  More

High Cost of Ignoring Minority Students
Sandra E. Timmons, President of A Better Chance, talks with The Root about demographic trends in America and what that means for communities of color.  More

A Better Chance Letter To the Editor in The New York Times
President of A Better Chance, Sandra E. Timmons, wrote a letter to the Editor of The New York Times in response to an article about the education gap between the rich and poor.  More

Taking Stock of Race in Obama’s America
The New York Times Book Review of journalist Ellis Cose's new book, "The End of Anger," released in May 2011. In “The End of Anger,” Cose draws on a series of interviews with former participants in A Better Chance — a program that helps talented, underprivileged students attend elite prep schools — and with African-American alumni of the Harvard Business School, in order to track changing race relations in the post-civil-rights era.  More

4 Success Strategies From Gov. Deval Patrick
Derek T. Dingle, Senior Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Black Enterprise, provides a write-up of The 2011 A Better Chance Awards luncheon that took place on June 17, 2011 at 42nd Street Cipriani in New York City. He also selects four success strategies from Governor Deval Patrick's memoir, A Reason to Believe, to share. Governor Patrick, an Alumnus of the program, was honored at the event.  More

Nurturing Young Scholars
Carla A. Harris is helping give educationally disadvantaged children the "right kinds of support and the right kinds of exposure."  More

"Ridiculous" (Young Alumna Receives Prestigious Science Research Scholarship)
A Better Chance Alumna, Xochina El Hilali (St. George's School, '07) was recently awarded the United Negro College Fund/Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship. She attends Carnegie Mellon University.  More

The exacting quest for a good school
Mikal Hayden-Gates is one of thousands of prospective A Better Chance students who undergo Interview Day as part of the application process to enroll in the program. The 2010 Boston Interview Day was one step in her quest for a good school.  More

More Than ABCs
All three are graduates of Radnor High School—success stories for the New York-based “A Better Chance,” a nationwide organization that rescues students of color from less-than-ideal environments. ABC has been selecting and referring applicants since 1963. “Many of our kids are the first in their families to graduate from high school,” says Florence Hubert, board president of ABC Radnor, which will house eight students come September on a property in Wayne.  More

Teen Accepted into Four Ivy League Universities
Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe spoke with ESSENCE.com about choosing to go to President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama's alma mater, and the lessons her parents taught her about education.  More

Award-Winning A Better Chance Scholar Accepted at Top Schools
Very few college-bound students have the choices that were available to Fatima Hyacinthe.  More

Reflections from the Experiment in Morocco
This past summer Jenna Spencer traveled to Morocco with the Experiment in International Living. Though Jenna has always enjoyed traveling, this was her first adventure outside of North America. Jenna wishes to thank the many generous donors who make the Experiment possible for students like her, who would otherwise be able to afford teh experience.  More

From inner city to elite boarding school - Connecticut Post
Bridgeport youth gets opportunity of lifetime at Hotchkiss. On the evening before the first day of classes at Hotchkiss School in Lakeville this fall, after shaking hands with the headmaster, Joshue Guevara, of Bridgeport, will record his name and hometown into one of two leatherbound books, as is a custom at the 118-year-old boarding school.  More

275 city kids vie for spot in private schools program - NY Daily News
They've practiced. They've preened. Some have even plotted power breakfasts. Now, the big moment is here for about 275 kids who will audition today for spots in a program that could pave their way into the nation's elite preparatory schools.  More

The Complexities of Complexion - Risk Management Magazine
As a teenager growing up in Pittsburgh, Marvin Kelly got involved with A Better Chance. Soon after, he and six other kids from cities including Cleveland, Pittsburgh and New York left their urban lives and moved to the well-to-do community of Simsbury, Connecticut, where they enrolled in high school.  More

Scott and Robin Gwaltney: Making A Place to Thrive - REALTOR Magazine
Think your life is hectic? Try adding a half-dozen high school students to your demanding family life and real estate career. That’s exactly what Scott and Robin Gwaltney, sales associates with Coldwell Banker At Your Service Realty in Rochester, Minn., have been doing for 15 years.  More

Downstate students strive for a higher education in Clinton - Clinton Pennysaver
In his maroon “Clinton Football” T-shirt, Richard Nwarike Onyejuruwa, Jr., 17, doesn’t stand out among the members of Clinton High School’s senior class. But unlike his classmates, Richard lived most of his life in the Bronx. He’s one of eight teenage boys – two in each high-school grade level – who are part of A Better Chance, or ABC, a nationwide program designed to increase the number of minority students going to college.  More

ABC walks toward progress - The Daily Collegian
University of Massachusetts students "walked the walk" this past Saturday with the Amherst community, as they participated in the 40th annual Fall Foliage Walk for the A Better Chance House in Amherst.  More

Radnor "rookie" receiver shows potential as colleges catch on - Philadelphia Daily News
John Coleman carries a 3.2 GPA at Radnor High School and a 1,000 SAT score. He's also one of the league leaders for the Radnor Red Raiders with 19 catches and three touchdowns.  More

Speech is a fitting finale for ABC student - Appleton Post-Crescent
Appleton West High School usually chooses two seniors to speak at their graduation ceremony. But this year, the panel of senior homeroom teachers made an exception and picked three "really good ones," including one submitted by Anthony Neal, who has attended West since freshman year as an A Better Chance student.  More

Their Chance to Shine - The Boston Globe
Decked out in a red Ecko Unlimited T-shirt, baggy jeans, and a pair of Jordans, Adam Farward drops one shot after another from outside the paint through the basketball hoop. As he runs off the gym floor at Masconomet Regional High School, he boasts: "You're looking at the future of the NBA." Farward is one of five minority students attending high school in Topsfield as part of A Better Chance, a residential program for academically talented youth from underserved communities.  More

THE STARR REPORT - New York Post
The people over at Manhattan- based A Better Chance proudly note that alum Justin Martin, who starred for two years as Simba in Broadway's "The Lion King," moves to TV this Monday as a star of ABC's "A Raisin in the Sun." A Better Chance is a non-profit organization that identifies and places talented African- American, Asian-American, Native American and Latino youth in college prep schools; notable alums include Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.  More

A Better Chance Alum Wins Minority Business Enterprise Award
McMillon Communications, Inc. of Fort Washington, Maryland, is proud to announce that the company's President and CEO, Doris McMillon, has been selected to receive the prestigious Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise Award.  More

Education provides a Chance to rise above
BALTIMORE (June 17, 2007)- A Better Chance guided Erica Holland to a prestigious college preparatory school in Baltimore County and a full ride at the University of Pennsylvania.  More

29 Santa Ana students headed to prestigious preps
Twenty-nine middle school students from Santa Ana Unified have been chosen to participate in a program that places them in prestigious preparatory academies across the country.  More

Right choices can make a difference
Dr. Christopher Leggett tells his story without so much as a nod to the American Dream and its economic and social mobility. And yet what one hears in his story is the hopeful message that even a black kid from the south side of Cleveland, or Atlanta for that matter, can rise above his circumstances, that he can have love and honor and belonging and freedom.  More

Star lends support to ABC Wilton
WILTON (March 16, 2007) - Joe Pantoliano and his wife Nancy are hosting a dinner at their Wilton home on Saturday, March 18, as part of a benefit for A Better Chance [ABC] Wilton, a residential program which gives urban youth the opportunity to study at some of the nation's best schools.  More

ABC's of aiming high
Three very bright and sociable Lower Merion High School students recently discussed their lives and their hopes for the future, as all LM students do from time to time. But these three are unlike their classmates in one key respect: none of them has a permanent Main Line address.  More

Away from home, a chance to shine
It started as an experiment in 1963, the height of the civil rights movement: Select children from the country's roughest neighborhoods and move them at the ages of 13 and 14 into the nation's finest public and private schools. Today the program, A Better Chance, boasts over 11,000 alumni, including Governor Deval Patrick, who credits his experience at Milton Academy with setting him on the path to become the state's first black governor.  More

A Better Chance is moving into a new home
Chris Payne, 17, a junior at Wilton High School, has lived in the grey house behind the Wilton Library since he came to Wilton two years ago. Despite the fact that he's had some good times in the house, he's excited that he'll soon be leaving it.  More

ABC Kids Live King's Dream
NEW CANAAN (January 18, 2007) The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream is lived at A Better Chance (ABC) house of New Canaan.  More

Giving Minority Students a Push Along the Path to Leadership Roles
NEW YORK (1/3/07) - The (A Better Chance) mission is to increase the number of minority men and women in leadership positions. It is really about social mobility, whisking children out of their environment in urban neighborhoods and transporting them to institutions that are incubators for presidents, senators and titans of industry.  More