Individuals who work with Impact Alabama spend a year of service after graduation at a unique, nationally recognized organization fighting poverty in Alabama. Impact seeks highly motivated, talented graduates to fill full-time staff positions that implement and oversee three nationally unique initiatives based upon a collaboration with twenty colleges across the state of Alabama: FocusFirst, SaveFirst, and CollegeFirst. FocusFirst trains college students to provide high-tech vision screenings and follow-up care to preschool-age children in Head Starts and day cares in low-income rural and urban areas throughout Alabama. SaveFirst trains college students to provide free tax preparation services and opportunities for economic improvement to working families in Alabama. CollegeFirst trains college and graduate students to provide academic tutoring and mentoring to high school students pursuing Advanced Placement coursework and help implement a Pre-AP summer academic enrichment program for rising ninth graders.