ZF Real-World Coaching
We encourage our students to develop and live by values. We coach how to apply their values when making key life decisions. Our pragmatic life principles help our students succeed and build a ZF community with a common value system. We believe that effective adults become our change-makers and future leaders by living their values personally and professionally.
Meet our ZF Coaches!
Meet our ZF Coaches!
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We supported our first students in 1984 by providing a scholarship. Over the years, we began to work with ZF applicants earlier in their college application process, before they had to choose a school. During this time, we discovered that students (and their families) were making decisions that impacted them for years, perhaps decades, after graduation. We also learned that some of these decisions (school choice & financial obligations), became difficult to change once made. ZF decided to broaden our mission from simply providing financial scholarships to “Helping Students Become Effective Adults”. We coach our applicants to begin with the end in mind - what impact will your school choice and financial decisions have post-graduation? We coach our students far more than we evaluate & select scholarship recipients. As a matter of fact, some of our applicants choose colleges which don't require ZF funding yet want to maintain their coach relationships.
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We are not experts nor do we have hidden agendas - political, economic, academic or vocational. We’re situational and focus on specific student needs where we can add perspective. We coach and learn by working with our students, by asking questions and encouraging discussions between students, their families and advisors. While no one can ensure “right” decisions, we encourage thoughtful and informed decisions. As we see patterns, we seek or develop reference materials and tools, such as our College Affordability Toolkit, as resources for our community and the public.
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