College Scholarship Leadership Access Program - CSLAP

An announcement from CSLAP founder, Thomas Ray Garcia.

Since 2013, CSLAP has directly impacted the lives of over 2,000 students who have attended at least 2 of our classes or college coaching sessions or who have received a scholarship from us.

For over 12 years, CSLAP has transformed to meet the needs of our community. From a volunteer-led summer institute spearheaded by college students to a high school course to an independent 501c3 nonprofit, we have continued changing and adapting to impact more students.

Today, we are announcing that CSLAP will begin winding down its operations. This means our team's work with high school students will end in 2025, and we will continue mentoring and supporting our CSLAP students to and through college until the final student graduates.

From the first CSLAP mentee in the class of 2013 to the hundreds of CSLAP students in the class of 2025 preparing to graduate, our community has grown to thousands of young people and their families. To our CSLAP students and parents: That community will always be here for you.

Because CSLAP is not a place, and it is not simply a program: It is a community of people driven by the spirit of altruism. It is that spirit of altruism that has led our CSLAP community members to uplift one another, to go out of their way to help someone in need, and to ask, “What can I do for my community today?”

No matter what our future holds, that spirit will never die.