Support the OTO Program
About the OTO Program
An “OTO” is our affectionate name for the Overcoming the Odds Award. (“OTO” rhymes with motto.) This unique awards program was created by Student Advocacy in 1996 and has been continued annually since then. Sixty remarkable young people have already been honored. Four new honorees will receive awards at our next awards program in May.
Donations to the awards program help us honor the OTO winners, provide scholarships for them, and provide educational advocacy services to students who are still struggling in school through our Overcoming the Odds project.
Read more about the OTO Awards.
Ways to Help
Give an OTO Scholarship
Contribute to the college scholarship for each OTO winner. Scholarship levels depend upon contributions.
Help Kids to Overcome the Odds
Your contribution will provide educational advocacy services for a child, from a low-income family, who is failing in school. The average cost to represent one child is $850.
Honor the OTO Winners
Help honor the OTO winners: contribute to the costs of providing each winner with an engraved award; gifts; complimentary tickets to the awards dinner for each winner, his/her parents, and the educator who nominated them. which costs $1,000 for each of the four winners.
Honor Student Advocacy’s Staff
Celebrate our hard-working staff by paying for their dinner tickets. A table for the staff costs $1,750.