Helping Community Colleges Enable Dreams

ZogoTech is driven by a singular, powerful mission: to help low-income and first-generation students into the middle class and breathe new life into the American Dream. Our commitment lies in leveraging the transformative power of data in education to open doors to success, eliminate performance gapes, and enable economic mobility.

Our Vision

We envision a future where every student has an equitable chance to achieve economic mobility, enter family-sustaining careers, and fulfill their full potential – regardless of their background. Our ultimate aim is to restore the promise of the American Dream by ensuring education truly becomes a vehicle for transformative social and economic change.

Why it Matters

Research by renowned economist Raj Chetty powerfully underscores the urgency of our mission and vividly illustrates the stakes:

Declining Economic Mobility: Once, the American Dream felt within everyone’s grasp. Today, this promise has dimmed considerably. Only about half of today’s children earn more than their parents, down from over 90% for those born in the 1940s. This decline represents not just economic stagnation but lost potential, broken dreams, and generational disappointment.
Critical Drivers of Opportunity: Raj Chetty’s groundbreaking research has uncovered that key factors influencing upward mobility include early childhood environments, quality education, and strong economic connections. Neighborhoods, social networks, and accessible pathways to higher education profoundly impact a child’s life trajectory.

Community colleges, deeply embedded in their local communities and committed to open access, hold the keys to reversing this troubling trend. They can directly address educational disparities, build robust social networks, and become powerful engines of upward economic mobility for millions of students.

“ZogoTech's mission is to level the playing field so that every person, regardless of their start in life, has a fair shot at reaching the middle class. We believe in the power of education to transform lives, and through our work, we're committed to helping community colleges turn data into pathways for success.”

Michael Taft

CEO, ZogoTech

Our Commitment

For many of us at ZogoTech, the path to success wasn’t always easy. Many team members were first-generation college students, navigating higher education without a clear roadmap. Others faced academic struggles, financial barriers, or personal hurdles that made graduation seem unreachable. We intimately understand what it means to confront performance gaps – and to push through them with resilience and determination. This personal understanding drives our unwavering commitment to helping community colleges pinpoint and solve these critical issues, ensuring that more students receive the targeted support necessary to persist, graduate, and realize their dreams.

Our Impact

By harnessing the vast potential of data, we help community colleges make quicker, more informed decisions that profoundly impact millions of students nationwide. Our emphasis on community colleges and broad-access institutions aims to broaden the horizon for first-generation and low-income students, making the American Dream attainable once more.

With ZogoTech, community colleges across the nation are achieving remarkable outcomes:

Increased Enrollment and Retention

Helping colleges attract, enroll, and retain more students by quickly identifying and addressing barriers to enrollment and ongoing success.

Improved Pathways to Careers

Clearly mapping student pathways from entry to graduation, ensuring that students are supported every step of the way toward meaningful, family-sustaining careers.

Closed Performance Gaps