The Neighborhood Longhorns Program (NLP) and its 1000+ volunteer tutors and mentors would like to take you to the magical color wonderland known as Color Me Rad on Saturday, November 9, at 10 a.m. at the Travis County Expo Center. Color Me Rad is a 5K run/walk unlike any other.… read more
Thank You Amplifiers!
Thank you for supporting the Neighborhood Longhorns Program during the 24-hour Amplify Austin campaign between March 4 and March 5th! Forty-one people contributed $2,075 to NLP! It was a phenomenal day for local nonprofits and we are grateful for your support. Together, we raised a total of $2.8 million for… read more
UT Senior Marzavia Crayton Making a Difference in NLP
Like many Neighborhood Longhorn Program (NLP) alumni, Marzavia Crayton ended up at The University of Texas at Austin. But he also ended up with a $20,000 scholarship to attend UT. Crayton is now a senior majoring in Human Relations within the College of Communications and looking forward to graduate school… read more
Amir Emamian is an NLP Lifer
Amir Emamian has been involved with the Neighborhood Longhorns Program (NLP) for most of his life. As a third-grader at Winn Elementary School in Northeast Austin, he joined other students at his school by participating in reading challenges and visiting the University of Texas at Austin for special events. When… read more
Partnering with AISD to Help Little Longhorns Dream Big
There are two things no sports program can do without: athletes and fans. By the early 1990s, the UT Athletics Department had reason to worry about losing them both. Like many universities in Texas, a significant number of UT’s student athletes were African American. But historically UT’s overall enrollment of… read more
NLP Paves the Way for College Readiness
In the fall of 2010 Melissa Alvarez was one of nearly 8,000 freshmen to arrive at The University of Texas at Austin. For Alvarez, as for many other Austinites, the path that led her to pursue higher education was one paved in part by the Neighborhood Longhorns Program (NLP), an… read more