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AU seeks to ensure that student populations who are historically disenfranchised by virtue of zip code, race, gender and/or sexual orientation are not only granted a high school diploma but also graduates from college, trade school and/or military services, in hopes to ensure a substantial life that detours one from poverty.
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My biological mother was 16 and a sex worker. My grandmother adopted me as an infant. Before the age of 16, I spent 24 months in Juvenile. I was the first in my family to graduate from high school. Yet, while in college, I was shot twice, placed under investigation for two murders that I did not commit, and wrongfully criminalized. Now, as a college and law school graduate, professor, and social entrepreneur, I understand the various complexities needed to excel academically and existentially. Yet, what happens to the scholar who isn’t so ‘lucky?’ And why does one have to be ‘lucky’ in order to defeat and overcome poverty? As a Morehouse man, a product of Dallas ISD and one who understands the power of education, I founded and created Access Unlimited, Inc. AU was birthed based on need, extreme frustration, and to have various and diverse answers to the above queries. AU does turn-around work, in partnership with NYCDOE and DallasISD, whereby having currently 17 schools in our portfolio of successful turn-around institutions that led to establishing a Comprehensive Management Organization, whereby developing our independent private and charter schools in New Orleans (private), Atlanta, and Dallas (charters).
Year Founded
2017
Amount Raising
$2,000,000
Previous Funding
$10,100,000
Headquarters
NYC
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AU is a small organization that has supported schools in NYC (NYCDOE), New Haven and Dallas, Texas since April, 2017. As a result, AU has created strong partnerships with NYCDOE and Dallas ISD, whereby supporting a diverse portfolio of schools, while advancing such schools to the most preeminent level, which has led to AU creating and starting our first private school in NOLA (August 2023) and charter school in Georgia (August 2024) and Texas (August 2025). Additionally, to achieve our mission and vision, AU currently has two main initiatives, with future implementation of two additional initiatives: AU Whole School Initiative: Redefining the road to college and career readiness by transforming schools via the creation of culturally responsive instruction and culturally sound and diverse learning environments, thus granting parents and instructors the socio-emotional tools necessary to ensure that the support system - be it domestic or academic - leads to a combining source of tools that determines unlimited access for all. AU Charter Network: Our institutions serve as educational hubs where young boys unpack the complexities of self while being educated in the liberal arts obtaining a broad grasp of literature, art, music, history and the sciences, in the name of discovering one’s ‘major’ via a specialized curriculum that’s rooted in performance-based systems that are cemented in college and career excellence.Future Initiatives: AU Legal Clinic (serving as a legal hub for parents, students and educators in individual and communal advocacy in education and civil rights) AU Community Center (creating community centers that offer the needs of our most vulnerable populations, whilst advancing the notion of community uplift to a level of preeminent intervention and redirection)

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Leadership

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cornelius-finley-50419318b/

Cornelius Finley

Founder
Morehouse College

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