#  Early Impact + Launch Parties | Arbol

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- Published at: 2022-01-28 22:12:14 UTC
- Updated at: 2025-07-17 23:24:35 UTC

## Author
David Gonzalez

## Subject
Arbol

## Content
Hello All,We are off to a fast start in 2022! We've funded our 2nd student, launched a product MVP, rolled out Arbol to D'Youville College students and launched the Arbol Community Fund (ACF). Looking forward, we are well positioned to build on a strong start to Q1 by wrapping up our Wefunder campaign, rolling out Arbol to Villa Maria College and growing monthly recurring contributions to the ACF.As always, we appreciate your continued support!Sincerely,The Arbol Team 🌳❗ ACTION REQUIRED: Wefunder investors should confirm their investments before February 3, 2022. Confirm your investment🎙️ AnnouncementsNahom Sososa will join Arbol as a full time contractor in a generalist role that will find him assisting with product development, go-to-market and analytics.Matt Mignona will advise Arbol on Fintech partnerships and help with optimizing revenue opportunities.The Arbol Community Fund is now live. The fund will be used to help low income students pay for their life expenses. Go make a recurring contribution today.👩‍🎓Student HighlightsIn this section we'll share student stories that cover the impact that Arbol is already having in it's brief existence and the ones that are sure to come.Sarah Ash has successfully received her supporter funds in her Arbol provisioned debit card and has started to purchase books and supplies for the Spring Semester. She is diligent with her expense tracking and planning her spending throughout the semester with Arbol’s guidance.Arbol partnered with Scholar Bridge provided emergency funding of $6,000 to Angela Simasiku, a law student at Georgia State University to pay her student bill. Angela was at risk of forced disenrollment while only being 3 credit hours away of graduation.🤝TractionLaunched private beta in partnership with D’Youville College that provides 15 students with a $1,000 microgrant to use towards non-tuition expenses such as books, supplies, transportation, off-campus housing and childcare.The team plans on extending the private beta to students from Villa Maria College and Undocuprofessionals in the coming weeks.Launched the Arbol Community Fund in partnership with PPF. The charitable fund is now available for supporters to contribute towards. The funds will be distributed directly to students to cover their life expenses in the form of microgrants. Supporters can subscribe to a recurring contribution. 🖥 ProductArbol 1.0 is now live with over 20 students from the Urban League and D’Youville College. Students can now create a profile, manage a budget and book an appointment with Arbol to perform a needs assessment.Launched debit card proof of concept with Sarah and Angela. Later this year, the team plans on rolling out Arbol branded cards with expense controls to help the students effectively manage the funds they receive from the Arbol supporter network. Vendor partner still TBA. 💰 FundraisingArbol filed their Form C with the SEC and can now accept investment from the investors on Wefunder. The next step is to finalize the round with the help of Wefunder's investor network and anyone else who'd like to participate.Those who have made reservations, please confirm your investments ASAP or by Feb 3, 2022 by clicking this link and completing the steps: wefunder.com/valorabien/investThose who have not made a reservation or commitment yet and want to invest in Arbol can still do so for a few more weeks here: https://wefunder.com/arbol📈 KPIsWe’re actively working on to standardize on report on our KPIs and share how they trend over time. This is our first step, expect this section to become more robust and paint a more vivid picture of our progress in upcoming updates.Note we launched our recurring contribution model a few days ago on 1/24/22. We plan to increasingly shift focus to growing the fund as we wrap up our Wefunder Campaign.Total Student Funding Granted: $9,000Students Actively Receiving Funding: 2Active Student App Users: 17Monthly Recurring Contributions: $550Active Supporters: 8