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Helping College Students, Parents and College Students/Parents Programs.
Avenues to Success, is a way for parents to give their students daily support to help them succeed in college. It also provides needed funds to the college's student/parent program.
In 1996, I sent my oldest daughter quotations to motivate her to successfully complete her first year at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. She asked me to send the quotes to two of her friends, one at Coast Guard Academy and the other at the U.S. Navel Academy. They were appreciative of my effort to help them.
I began Avenues to Success (ATS) in 1997 feeling strongly that other parents would like to stay connected to their students and to the molding of their personal character.
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PARENTS: Here is an Unique Opportunity to Help Your Students
Your student has charted a course for success, but still needs a partner to get there. You are that partner, and here's another way you can help!Enroll your student in an unique service, Avenues to Success, that e-mails a daily motivational quotation specifically selected to help keep your student focused on achieving his or her goals.
Quotes originate from myriad sources - figures in literature, history, the sciences, to name a few - and are chosen for their ability to bolster self-esteem, encourage students through rough times and help them grow.
Our motivational quotes give positive reinforcement of these avenues through life:
* Courage
* Honor
* Integrity
* Leadership
* Persistence
* Personal Relationships
Quotations are limited to 50 words or less for fast reading. We do include other categories with the student in mind.
Rest assured that is not an advertising service and the e-mail addresses are never sold or shared with any third parties, Rather, this is an effective way for you to provide your student with a daily thought to help him or her excel in the face of life's challenges.
This is a win-win opportunity. Students, Parents and Schools Benefit.
STUDENTS College students are the reason we created Avenues To Success and it is students who benefit the most from this service. We are committed to helping them stay focused on their goals while in college. They can continue receiving the daily quotes when they finish school.
Students profit from the wisdom of others to overcome the obstacles they encounter. Your student will receive a motivational quote every day, without fail reminding him or her that they are supported though every step of their journey.
PARENTS As partners in your student's success, you may wonder how you can help your students through the challenges encountered. Avenues To Success gives you the satisfaction of knowing you are helping your student every day.
SCHOOLS By partnering with Avenues To Success, colleges and universities gain a valuable service that they can offer parents. We administer the entire program, so colleges incur very little overhead cost. Meanwhile, a majority of the subscription cost goes directly to the sponsoring school of your choice to support their student programs.
Click here to Subscribe Today
Avenues to Success
To Get you where you want to be.
information for COLLEGE PARENT/STUDENT ASSOCIATIONS
Details of how the program works for you.
ATS is a web-based business that leverages the power of the internet to offer a unique product that exclusively helps non-profit student/parent programs affiliated with colleges and universities.
Business Concept:
Avenues to Success is a subscription-based service which sends daily motivational quotations, via e-mail, directly to the subscriber, usually a college student. Subscriptions are sold by non-profit organizations affiliated with the student/parent programs at colleges/universities as a fund raiser where the organization retains a generous portion of sales revenues. The quotations are specifically selected to help students achieve their own goals in life and are a positive reinforcement of these "avenues:" honor, integrity, persistence, courage, leadership, and personal relationships as they:
1. Contain excellent advise from very wise people
2. Bolster self-esteem
3. Help reader to discover and grow into the man/woman they want to be
4. Help the reader through rough times
5. Prepare the reader for tough situations.
Clearly, ATS gives parents the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping their student everyday through words of encouragement.
Quotation Subscription Service:
Quotations are designed for the busy college student. They are selected to be inspiring, fast, and easily read additionally, quotations will not be duplicated within an eight-year cycle. Quotations chosen adhere to high standards set forth by ATS management. Quotes of a religious, sexual, or political nature will never be sent; advertising also will not be sent with the quotations.
Avenues to Success Vision:
1. To provide a fund raising service to college affiliated organizations that is easy to administer, has high fund raising potential, and offers a unique value proposition. Organizations will be encouraged not only to sell subscriptions for parents but also for anyone in their lives themselves, siblings, work colleagues, etc. The selling potential of ATS is therefore seemingly limitless.
2. The value proposition of ATS: To enable parents and guardians to send daily motivational quotes to their children/dependents that are hoped to keep students focused on their goals while in school. While other fund raisers offer things to eat and discount coupons, ATS offers exposure to the knowledge of others that may help students to overcome obstacles encountered during their college experience it is an excellent fit for both students and parents/guardians.
3. The overriding principle of ATS is to help college students keep focused on their goals while in school. This will ultimately help them achieve their own ambitions and help develop their character.
Sponsorship:
Sponsorship is open to colleges and universities and their affiliates. The ideal program to Sponsor ATS would be the student/parent group. ATS will only have one group at a Sponsoring school.
Price of a subscription is only $25.00; and the organization retains a majority of the sales revenues. Sponsors are encouraged to promote ATS to parents, alumni, and others as part of their overall fund raising activities. We do not encourage selling directly to students, although independent students can also buy subscriptions. ATS provides a blog, Avenues to Success Notes, to give additional information about ATS and the authors of the daily quotes. We have a small display ad ready to promote the program and other things are in the works, including a new mailing piece. All of these will be provided at no charge for stock work.
GETTING STARTED:
Contact us that you want to be a Sponsor and offer the service to the Parents. We are happy to answer your questions.
Please use the "Contact Us" below.
Avenues to Success
To Get you where you want to be.
Business Concept:
Avenues to Success is a subscription-based service which sends daily motivational quotations, via e-mail, directly to the subscriber, usually a college student. Subscriptions are sold by non-profit organizations affiliated with the student/parent programs at colleges/universities as a fund raiser where the organization retains a generous portion of sales revenues. The quotations are specifically selected to help students achieve their own goals in life and are a positive reinforcement of these "avenues:" honor, integrity, persistence, courage, leadership, and personal relationships as they:
1. Contain excellent advise from very wise people
2. Bolster self-esteem
3. Help reader to discover and grow into the man/woman they want to be
4. Help the reader through rough times
5. Prepare the reader for tough situations.
Clearly, ATS gives parents the satisfaction of knowing that they are helping their student everyday through words of encouragement.
Quotation Subscription Service:
Quotations are designed for the busy college student. They are selected to be inspiring, fast, and easily read additionally, quotations will not be duplicated within an eight-year cycle. Quotations chosen adhere to high standards set forth by ATS management. Quotes of a religious, sexual, or political nature will never be sent; advertising also will not be sent with the quotations.
Avenues to Success Vision:
1. To provide a fund raising service to college affiliated organizations that is easy to administer, has high fund raising potential, and offers a unique value proposition. Organizations will be encouraged not only to sell subscriptions for parents but also for anyone in their lives themselves, siblings, work colleagues, etc. The selling potential of ATS is therefore seemingly limitless.
2. The value proposition of ATS: To enable parents and guardians to send daily motivational quotes to their children/dependents that are hoped to keep students focused on their goals while in school. While other fund raisers offer things to eat and discount coupons, ATS offers exposure to the knowledge of others that may help students to overcome obstacles encountered during their college experience it is an excellent fit for both students and parents/guardians.
3. The overriding principle of ATS is to help college students keep focused on their goals while in school. This will ultimately help them achieve their own ambitions and help develop their character.
Sponsorship:
Sponsorship is free.
Sponsorship is open to colleges and universities and their affiliates. The ideal program to Sponsor ATS would be the student/parent group. ATS will only have one group at a Sponsoring school.
Price of a subscription is only $25.00; and the organization retains a majority of the sales revenues. Sponsors are encouraged to promote ATS to parents, alumni, and others as part of their overall fund raising activities. We do not encourage selling directly to students, although independent students can also buy subscriptions. ATS provides a blog, Avenues to Success Notes, to give additional information about ATS and the authors of the daily quotes. We have a small display ad ready to promote the program and other things are in the works, including a new mailing piece. All of these will be provided at no charge for stock work.
GETTING STARTED:
Contact us that you want to be a Sponsor and offer the service to the Parents. We are happy to answer your questions.
Please use the "Contact Us" below.
Avenues to Success
To Get you where you want to be.
Contact Us
Let us know you would like more information on being a Sponsor
Let us know your contact information and we will get back to you with more details on how this simple, program works.
Your comments are also appreciated.
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Updated Quotation and Blog Entries
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Below are links to other Avenue to Success related sites and interesting websites and blogs that may be of interest.
- Avenues to Success Notes
- The purpose of this blog is to give customers some additional information about Avenues to Success. It also has links for additional information about the authors of the quotes.
There are also more links to other helpful sites.
Sites of Interest
Here are some websites and Blogs where you may find additional information about helping college students succeed.
- ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center
- This link will provide you with a wealth of education literature.
For example, Item EJ534317, Avenues to Success in College: A Non-Credit Eight-Week Freshman Seminar (also linked) has a list of Descriptors provides links to related literature about students. - ERIC: Avenues to Success in College: A Non-Credit Eight-Week Freshman Seminar
- This listing in ERIC has a list of Descriptors provides links to related literature about students.
- The Hyperinflation of College and its Unintended Outcomes : Edumorphology
- The unintended outcomes of sending EVERY child to COLLEGE.
- USA College Graduation Rate Became Flat in 1980
- College Success Blog by Dr. Michael Kirst has posts covering college success studies.
- Top 31 Motivation Hacks
- Development for Conscious People
- No Sucker Left Behind: Top 10 Myths About College
- Admittedly this blog is an ad for the book. However, it does offer some good, heated debates in the comments. No Sucker Left Behind The official Blog for the book that will be published in Spring 2008. Helping students and families navigate college admissions and financial aid, and avoid the Great College Ripoff.
- Practical College Skills
- Saucy Pedantic Wretch My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.--Seneca
Every semester, most of us see a few students commit certain basic mistakes, heartbreaking errors that bespeak a sad lack of preparation for higher education. - America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree - Chronicle.com
- Here is a post from The Chronicle of Higher Education stating that a college education may not be the best value for students.
- Heading to College and Failure-bound | The John Birch Society - Truth, Leadership, Freedom
- This post is from the controversial John Birch Society. It is a commentary the poor value of a college education.
- PASS AROUND THE CAP STUFFED WITH CASH
- Here's an interesting site for information financing college. Highly recommended.
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