At Reality Changers, we believe that College Changes Everything and we will have turned $300 of seed money into $100,000,000 in scholarships by May 2016! Our programs help high-potential, low-income y...
At Reality Changers, we believe that College Changes Everything and we will have turned $300 of seed money into $100,000,000 in scholarships by May 2016! Our programs help high-potential, low-income youth become first generation college students at the nation's top colleges. ------------ After working with gang members for five years, Reality Changers Founder Christopher Yanov felt that it was just not right that most inner-city teenagers today know more people who have been shot or killed in the street than people who are on the road to college. As a response, Reality Changers began in May 2001 with four 8th grade students at the Hispanic Presbyterian Church near downtown San Diego with the hope of building first generation college students. Starting with just $300 to its name, Reality Changers has given more scholarship awards to college bound students than any other single organization in San Diego County since 2006. Reality Changers continued to grow by opening two more chapters in Solana Beach (2004) and in the San Diego neighborhood of City Heights (2006), with both sites led by program graduates. Reality Changers moved to a new headquarters in City Heights in April 2008 and became California's leading tutoring program for scholarship since June 2009.