Arbol

02/27/2026

Join our first live Arbol webinar for a product demo on how schools identify financially at-risk students and reduce summer melt by surfacing uncertainty early 🎓‼️

Summer melt rarely starts with a student changing their mind. It usually begins with financial uncertainty. 😓

An unclear balance.
A missing document.
A next step that feels confusing.

Momentum slows. Communication stalls. Deposited students quietly disengage.

In this live session, David Gonzalez, Co-founder and CEO, will walk through how institutions are bringing visibility to financial uncertainty earlier in the enrollment cycle and supporting students before melt accelerates.

This session is designed for Financial Aid teams, Admission leaders, and Student Success professionals focused on keeping students on track and enrolled.

🗓 March 17th, 2026
⏰ 1pm EST

👉Sign-up here: https://growarbol.com/reduce-student-summer-melt-with-arbols-proactive-platform

Would love to see you there! 🌳

09/21/2022

07/12/2022

We're still in shock of how much support we received on our 1st Annual Fundraiser on June 2nd!

Thank you Rachael Owunwanne Chiwuike (Chi-Chi) Owunwanne Royce Woods and Stephanie Rivera for coming out to show your support for local college students making it to graduation! Together, we'll be able to make anything happen.

With donations from supporters like Rachel, we can help disadvantaged students pursue their passions.

For as little as $25/month you can help one student pay for their supplies for the semester: https://growarbol.com/donate/

Sign up for the monthly newsletter to see the impact: https://lnkd.in/erbQVaUX

06/03/2022

Just wow! THANK YOU everyone who came out last night for our 1st annual fundraiser event Our entire team is speechless with the amount of support we received, with over 90% turnout. Such great energy from everyone ⚡🔥

The Buffalo community came together to help support local college students with the resources they need to persist to graduation. With your help, we will be able to prevent more students from becoming financially ungraduated ❤️

Thanks to Marirose Brucato Pratt Melanie DellaPietra Francesca Harvey for such a great job helping us coordinate and run the event!

Special thanks to Villa Maria College Ryan Hartnett Laura Pietak Matthew Giordano for coming out and being our main sponsor for the night. The Villa Maria students were amazing as well! As well as our other sponsors Unapologetic Coffee and

Thank you vendors for setting up tables and helping us raise funds to support local college students! Meet & Eat Charcuterie Buffalo Bitty Bombs Jeca Energy Bars

And thank you to all attendees for taking time out of your day to come out and have some fun, even rain couldn't stop the Buffalo community! In fact, it made the event even better allowing for a more grassroots style event with everyone intermingling in one room indoors. We hope to see you all at the next event!

Couldn't make the event? Learn how you can help make an impact 👉 https://growarbol.com/donate/

Stay tuned in to our social media channels to see all the photography, videos, and interviews in action!

05/11/2022

💡 “This is the first step in giving students the foundation that they need,” Gonzalez said. “We’re reimagining financial services for people who need it most.”

🌱 The seed is starting to sprout as we move into Q2 2022. Could not have gotten this far without our wonderful supporters and audience!

👉 You can get involved with the and become a supporter by attending our in-person event on June 2nd. If you're local to Buffalo, NY we want to see you there!

ℹ Find out more information about the event and tickets here: https://lu.ma/i6com1wi



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Arbol is seeing plenty of student interest in its services. Now it must build up the other side of its community.

05/03/2022

Check out Part 2 of the Social Work Insider Podcast with Harleny Vasquez, LMSW, SIFI✨ featuring Arbol Cofounders: David Gonzalez and Favio Osorio

In the episode, we take a deeper dive into our newly coined term, the "Financially Ungraduated" 💡

Many high achieving students have the drive to finish college but unfortunately, due to a lack of financial education and resources, they're unable to finish in time. And that can cause a huge negative impact on their lives moving forward. 📉

To address this problem, Arbol is hosting its first annual fundraiser event to support the financially ungraduated persist to graduation. Find more about the event & registration here: https://lu.ma/i6com1wi



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"Financially Ungraduated" is a term that my guests today, the co-founders of Arbol, created to address a big issue in today's world... financial illiteracy for students.The truth is, many high achieving students have the drive to finish college bu...

04/29/2022

💡 “This is the first step in giving students the foundation that they need,” Gonzalez said. “We’re reimagining financial services for people who need it most.”

🌱 The seed is starting to sprout as we move into Q2 2022. Could not have gotten this far without our wonderful supporters and audience!

👉 You can get involved with the and become a supporter by attending our in-person event on June 2nd. If you're local to Buffalo, NY we want to see you there!

ℹ Find out more information about the event and tickets here: https://lu.ma/i6com1wi



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Arbol is seeing plenty of student interest in its services. Now it must build up the other side of its community.

04/12/2022

For this we are highlighting Junior Achievement USA and Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York, Inc.'s JA Connect program 💡

If you know a student, share this program with them so they can be the most prepared for life beyond high school! Financial literacy can be a key factor that decides whether or not someone graduates 🚨

🚩About 42% of college students drop out due to financial challenges. Tools like JA Connect provide the resources and content in a digestible way for students to become more financially savvy and literate.

Learn more: https://connect.ja.org/

Junior Achievement's Purpose is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy.

04/08/2022

Team planning and building is everything!

Nahom Sososa flew in from Atlanta, Georgia to spend this entire week in Buffalo at Seneca One planning with us and to claim these awesome Arbol hats! 💪💪

What we got done:

• What Arbol looks like in the next 5 years (Vision, Strategy, Business Model) 🔮
• Executing on our 2022 goals 🥅
• Marketing Plan 📰
• Product and Business Roadmaps 🛣
• And of course, going to Niagara Falls! 💦

03/28/2022

It was a pleasure to have the opportunity to attend the Entrepreneurial Youth Summit Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York, Inc. at St. John Fisher College 🥳

Whenever there's a chance to support and provide advice to our youth, take it and pay it forward! 💪

Our cofounder Favio Osorio had a great time working with this bright group of students and they ended up placing 1st in the competition!! 🎉

03/22/2022

We have been learning that students are being very frugal to the point that they are not spending enough on food to keep themselves healthy. The students get quite creative to make the $1 stretch as far as possible, leading them to juggle between which expenses to pay or not.

Ex. "I am only spending $100 on food over the semester, because I have costs for rent and required costs to stay enrolled in my college classes."

By providing students with funding that cover their living expenses such as food, we believe more students will have comfortable financial situations and more time to focus on their education. 💡