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Frances Kweller is fundraising
Immediate Needs Fund for 3 Children

Update 5/25/2022: 100% of these funds have been donated. Thank you to 2,600+ donations raising over $150,000 to support and stabilize the three children of Zhiwen Yan. See here. This fundraiser is closed. Thank you for supporting these three children.

Yi Andy Chen, the Queens Executive Director of Coalition of Asian Americans for Civil Rights who is also fluent in Mandarin, has volunteered to assist Eva, Zhiwen Yan’s widow, with a second GOFundMe directly for her. His fundraiser is solid and coordinated well with the first one. Please make future donations to this second fundraiser.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/zhiwen-yan-father-of-3-left-his-beloved-family

Thank you to everyone who donated. This GoFundMe charity fundraiser is guaranteed to be tax-deductible. Donors will receive tax receipts automatically from Gofundme charity partner, PayPal.
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Frances Kweller is fundraising
Ace the Specialized High School Entrance Exam!
Only seven percent of students accepted into specialized high school are black or Hispanic. This low rate is not acceptable. We believe that these students can excel in such exams. What they are missing is resources that help them prepare.

Want to join me in making a difference? Kweller Prep Tutoring and Educational Services is raising money to benefit the First in Family Fund Inc, an educational nonprofit, and any donation will help make an impact to help increase the number of minority student placement at Specialized High Schools.

The specialized high schools are known as the crown jewels of NYC. They include Stuyvesant, Bronx, Brooklyn Latin, LaGuardia, Staten Island Tech, York, and HSME Lehman. A STEM education can be a key to success and we are asking for your help in fundraising programs to sponsor students into test prep.

Entrance into a specialized high school requires passing the Specialized High School Entrance Exam (the SHSAT), and often requires months of rigorous test preparation. At the current time, students who pass this challenging exam are disproportionately not from predominately Black or Latinx communities.

Although Black and Hispanic students represent 70% of all NYC students, they account for less than 1% percent of the accepted students at Stuyvesant High School. See the NY Times Article Here

We want to change the narrative.

Kweller Prep (Website: KwellerPrep.com) is an established supplemental education company that offers targeted classes for the SHSAT. After helping thousands of students exceed the cut off the specialized high school over the years, Kweller Prep has developed a formula for success: regular and rigorous test prep for one year and two summers, starting the summer after 6th grade ends (the actual SHSAT is on October of 8th grade).

Kweller Prep can change the narrative.

Our private company has created a nonprofit division, called the First in Family Fund (FIFF) , as registered NYS and NYC Charity. and is now seeking donors to help sponsor 100 Black and Latinx students into our program per year.

We need your help. Donors can sponsor one semester, one summer, or just a few weeks of test prep. Any amount will help. Your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause.
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About First in Family Fund

The First in Family Fund is a scholarship funding company that aims to remove and reduce these barriers for immigrant families in NYC. We support students who are the first in their families to pursue higher education, providing top-tier services from Kweller Prep at little to no cost. Kweller Prep programs also support students entering and graduating from New York City’s most competitive high schools. Kweller Prep’s founder, Frances Kweller, Esq., drew on her experiences as a first-generation student while developing her competitive preparatory programs. Kweller desires to “fill the gaps” and remove barriers to education by providing scholarship support to students through the First in Family Fund.

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2014

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2022

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46-0706718

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Private Independent Foundations

First in Family Fund is a 501(c)(3) public charity, EIN 46-0706718. Donations are tax-deductible. Select content is provided by GuideStar.

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