Alumni support

Teach For America alumni can take advantage of a wide range of resources to maximize and sustain their individual and collective impact on the achievement gap, while pursuing their own career and civic goals.

The Career and Leadership Center provides job search and career development resources to support corps members and alumni. Alumni can identify and pursue career opportunities through résumé coaching, alumni mentors, résumé collections, career webinars, subscription-based newsletters in nine different career areas, and a comprehensive job board.  Take a tour of TFANet to learn more about these resources.

Partnerships with more than 200 graduate schools, including top-ranked programs in education, law, medicine, public policy, business, the sciences, and engineering, offer a range of benefits for corps members and alumni. These include two-year deferrals to participate in Teach For America, course credits for the corps experience, waived application fees, and special scholarships and awards.

Through employer and leadership development partnerships, hundreds of leading employers recruit and provide added benefits for Teach For America alumni. Employer partners include Accenture, Edison Schools, GE, Goldman Sachs, Google, KIPP, J.P. Morgan, McKinsey & Company, Wellstone Action, and The White House Project and offer benefits including two-year deferrals, internships, and career mentoring.

Our regional alumni affairs teams support corps members and alumni. They meet with them one-on-one, plan events, and develop strategic local partnerships to provide alumni with career and civic opportunities and forums to network with fellow alumni and engage with Teach For America.

Our leadership initiatives in school and teacher leadership, political leadership, social entrepreneurship, and policy and advocacy, help alumni build skills, readiness, and the network to accelerate their impact in these fields.

Alumni summits are held in several cities each year and provide an opportunity for alumni to reconnect with each other, learn from national and community leaders, explore career and job opportunities, and reflect on what we can do together to realize our vision of educational excellence and equity.

Alumni magazine and ongoing communication: One Day, the Teach For America alumni magazine delves into major issues in education reform and features profiles and perspectives from the alumni community.