For CBOs
Your caseload, your team, your families and your university partners, in one place that was built for student records.
One flat price a year for the whole organization. No fee per seat, per student or per referral.
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Hold a founding place as a community-based organization
Fill this in once. Your price and the founding deposit are shown in the summary at the end, before you pay anything.
A counselor at Harbor Light Scholars
Each student belongs to one organization
01A university writes to you
Partner universities reach your staff in a shared channel. Requests come to you first.
02One organization per student
Each student belongs to one organization, and a counselor works their caseload inside it.
03The request goes through you
The university asks for an introduction to one student, with a reason.
04One channel for staff
A partnership between an organization and a university opens a shared staff channel.
- Northfield University
We have ten places at our nursing preview day in March. Travel is covered.
- You
Thank you. One of our juniors would be a strong fit.
- Your caseload
Each student belongs to one organization. A counselor works their caseload here.
- Northfield University
Request sent for one student from Discover. Reason: nursing preview day.
- Harbor Light Scholars
Partnership with Northfield University. A shared staff channel is open.
See it working
From roster to introduction
Import your roster, work a caseload, answer a university's request, then use the shared channel, in four steps.
Recorded in the demo workspace. Every person and organization shown is fictional.
If you use Slate today
Slate.org tells you what happened after a student applied. This is where the years of work before that happen.
Slate.org, the free counselor side of Slate
What Slate does
- See application progress and admission decisions for students who applied to participating colleges
- Upload materials for those students
- Build lists of students, applications and colleges
- Colleges choose which information they share
CBOs of America
What you get here on top
- A caseload with tasks, notes and last contact for every student, including the ones who have not applied anywhere yet
- Messages with students and parents, and staff channels that can be archived, searched and handed over
- One calendar of fly-ins, visits, scholarships and deadlines, matched to the students they fit
- Introduction requests from universities, one at a time, each with its reason
- Packets: what each student still needs for a program, checked off as it arrives
- A map and directory of colleges and education nonprofits across the country
We do not show application status or admission decisions. Slate.org does, for colleges that share them.
What Slate does is taken from Technolutions' own public documentation, read in October 2026. Slate and Slate.org are products of Technolutions, which is not connected to CBOs of America.
The daily work
What staff do here
A counselor opens one screen and sees their students, what each one owes this week and who has gone quiet. A director sees the whole roster and every open request from a university.
- Roster and caseloads
- Every student in the program, assigned to the counselor who works with them.
- Tasks
- Assign a task to one student or a group. Students check it off. Parents can see it.
- Team channels
- Staff talk in channels inside the workspace, next to the records they are talking about.
- Family messages
- Message a student or a parent directly, inside the workspace and not on a personal phone.
- Forms
- Intake and consent forms that a family can complete and sign on a phone.
- Partners
- Work with the universities that want to meet your students. Each partner gets a shared staff channel.
How your records connect
One record for each person
Each student, parent, partner and funder has one record. Notes, emails, forms, meetings and tasks all land on its timeline, so anyone on your team can pick up where someone else left off.
Records link to each other: a student to a guardian, a partner to the college it works with. Nothing is copied into a second tool.
University introductions
A request goes to your organization first
A university searches the pool by graduation year, state, student type, interests and GPA band. Profiles have no free text.
A university asks your organization for an introduction, and says why. A request goes to your organization first.
University01
Searches the pool
Every university is confirmed before it can search the pool, by graduation year, state, student type, interests and GPA band.
University02
Asks for an introduction
The recruiter asks the student's organization for an introduction and says why.
CBO03
Receives it first
The request goes to the student's organization first. Each student belongs to one organization, and a counselor works a caseload inside it.
Partnership04
Opens a shared channel
A partnership between an organization and a university opens a shared staff channel.
Rules you can show a board
Enforced in the database
- One organization per student
- Each student belongs to one organization, and a counselor works a caseload inside it.
- Small groups are hidden
- A university search that matches fewer than 10 students returns nothing, so no one can be singled out.
- Every university is confirmed
- Every university is confirmed before it can search the pool.
- Some things are never collected
- No race, ethnicity, nationality, ancestry, immigration status, disability or justice involvement. No FAFSA, tax or aid documents.
- No accounts under 13
- A student under 13 cannot have an account.
A CBO is not a school
Two different kinds of organization
Community organization
An independent nonprofit that students choose to join. It helps them get to college outside the school day. Its advisors work for the nonprofit, not for a school.
School
The place a student is enrolled: a high school, a charter network or a district counseling office. Its counselors work for the school and serve every student enrolled there.
| Community organization | School | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it is | An independent nonprofit, such as a college access program. | A high school, charter network or district counseling office. |
| How students arrive | They apply or sign up by choice. | They are enrolled there. |
| Who the staff work for | The nonprofit. Often called advisors or coaches. | The school or district. School counselors. |
| Records | Keeps its own student records. A school cannot read them. | Keeps its own student records. A CBO cannot read them. |
| Working together | Can work with universities, and with a school when both agree. A partnership never shares student records. | Can work with universities. Can partner with a CBO if it chooses to, and never has to. |
| Cost | 500 USD a year. | 1,500 USD a year. |
Hold a founding place for your organization.
You see your price and the founding deposit at the end of the signup form, before you pay anything.