Grant Highlights
Education
The network develops program and evaluation models, disseminates best practices, and offers wide-ranging services to member organizations, including community-based college-access programs, statewide college-access networks, and postsecondary education institutions in 44 states. This three-year funding commitment creates or strengthens statewide college-access networks in five states: Arizona, California, New Mexico, Ohio, and Texas.
Headquartered at the University of North Carolina, the National College Advising Corps places new college graduates in underserved high schools and community colleges where they help students complete college applications and apply for financial aid. The grant supports the corps’ national training program and helps implement the near-peer mentoring model in Michigan.
Founded by the United Methodist Church in 1866 to educate freed slaves, the private, four-year liberal arts college has undergone a renaissance by focusing on serving low-income students. This three-year grant establishes the Center for Social Justice to engage scholars and researchers working on social-justice issues.
In addition to degree-granting programs, the college supports community outreach, public lectures, an Art Walk, and an Arts Adventures camp for low-income children. This challenge grant helps to fund the construction of a LEED-rated Drawing, Painting, and Photography Building, allowing for the expansion of studio space and the addition of degree programs in Native American Art.
Founded by the United Methodist Church in 1866 to educate freed slaves, the private, four-year liberal arts college has undergone a renaissance by focusing on serving low-income students. This three-year grant establishes the Center for Social Justice to engage scholars and researchers working on social-justice issues.
The district is the Pacific Northwest’s largest Head Start provider and delivers education services in 35 Seattle-area school districts. This challenge grant provides funding to construct the Greenbridge Early Learning Center, a LEED-rated demonstration site providing comprehensive child-development and family-support services to low-income residents based on the innovative Educare early childhood education model.
Like most South African universities, Rhodes’ student body has diversified significantly since the end of Apartheid to better reflect the nation as a whole, but the university’s mostly white male faculty is aging, and filling those posts after current faculty retire is proving difficult. This four-year grant seeks to help develop, diversify and retain the next generation of faculty in South Africa by encouraging current Rhodes faculty to better mentor new academic staff, and by providing opportunities for young professors to complete their degrees, undertake research, attend conferences, and to develop better classroom teaching skills.
The RP Group is a professional association for California community college institutional researchers and planners. This three-year grant provides funding for a study to identify cost-effective student-support services that improve community college transfer and degree completion, and to disseminate the findings throughout the state’s community college system.
Housed at the Rutgers University-Camden campus, the Center for Strategic Urban Community Leadership is creating a new Early Learning Research Academy to provide early childhood education for minority and low-income children in Camden, an extremely low-income and underserved community. With assistance from this planning grant, the center is formulating and implementing a capital fundraising campaign for the academy.
Over the past 50 years, the national nonprofit organization has awarded nearly $2 billion to more than 2 million students through its scholarship programs and services. This grant supports the expansion of the Dreamkeepers Emergency Financial Assistance Program, which helps community college students overcome financial emergencies and stay enrolled in school.