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1999 |
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Mike Eichler establishes The Consensus Organizing Center at SDSU.

The Step-Up program launches at Hoover High School with a $227,000 grant from Alliance Healthcare Foundation, inspiring and empowering underserved high school students to pursue a college education.
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The Price Community Builders program begins giving newly-graduated SDSU social work students the opportunity to work in City Heights and receive scholarships to pursue Master’s of Social Work degrees. |
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2001 |
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2003 |
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Fostering Community Connection (now called Rise Up) begins with a $356,000 grant from California Endowment to assist newly-emancipated foster youth obtain a college degree and successfully transition into adulthood. |
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SDSU President Steven Webber supports Step-Up for three years with $75,000 from the President’s Leadership Fund. |
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2006 |
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2007 |
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Executive Director Mike Eichler publishes his book, Consensus Organizing: Building Communities of Mutual Self-Interest, which becomes the seminal text on Consensus Organizing.
Rise Up receives support from The Alex Smith Foundation to work with former foster youth at SDSU.
Rise Up receives $322,000 from the Andrus Family Fund to incorporate the Transitions Framework into programming.
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MSW and law students at California Western School of Law begin to work together on Consensus Organizing projects as part of the course, Community Organizing & Problem Solving.
The Hervey Family Fund at Price Charities begins supporting former Step Up alumni with yearly college scholarships.
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2008 |
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2009 |
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First Step-Up alumnus graduates from SDSU with her Master’s of Social Work degree and returns to her community of City Heights to be a school counselor.
The Legal Path program exposes high school students to the legal profession and gives them the opportunity to take Political Science 102 at SDSU.
The Step-Up program gets a boost with $95,000 of support from Congresswoman Susan Davis.
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The Ernest and Betty Singer Scholarship is established to support students enrolled in the Community Development/Administration track of the Masters of Social Work program at SDSU and seed their initial work in community practice.

A.I.M. for Law launches first class. |
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2010 |
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2011 |
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First A.I.M. for Law graduate starts law school.
College Access Foundation of California provides college scholarships to support the Rise Up and Step Up alumni.
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SDSU students practice Consensus Organizing in Costa Rica as part of The Costa Rican Organizing Project, a new study abroad course at SDSU.
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2012 |
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Former Assistant Director Jessica Robinson takes the lead and becomes the second Executive Director in Consensus Organizing Center history. |
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2015 |
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Former Senior Program Manager, Jennifer Cosio, takes lead and becomes the third Executive Director in the COC history.
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