The national reform network seeks to increase the academic success of community college students, particularly low-income and underrepresented students. This grant will enable Achieving the Dream to develop and launch a new fee-for-service program for member colleges to offer more holistic student supports, including financial coaching and access to public benefits, to improve student financial stability. View Website

Achieving the Dream (ATD) is a national reform network that seeks to increase the academic success of community college students, particularly low-income and underrepresented students. This three-year grant will help expand ATD’s influence and reach in New York State and will aid in building capacity to create greater educational and economic opportunity for low income students and students of color at four urban State University of New York (SUNY) community colleges: Schenectady, Suffolk, Broome, and Dutchess. View Website

The national reform network seeks to increase the academic success of community college students, particularly low-income and underrepresented students. This grant supports the network's efforts to launch the Dream Racial Equity Institute , which will convene 10 Achieving the Dream network colleges at The USC Race and Equity Center to create racial equity action plans to implement on their campuses. View Website

Achieving the Dream's (ATD's) mission is to lead and support a national network of community colleges to achieve sustainable institutional transformation through sharing knowledge, innovative solutions and effective practices and policies leading to improved outcomes for all students. This grant will build the capacity to expand Siyaphumelela, including training a cadre of South African coaches to work with participating universities and facilitating knowledge development across these two respective and growing learning networks. View Website

The national reform network seeks to increase the academic success of community college students, particularly low-income and underrepresented students. The financial amendment will enable a delegation of South African scholars and reserachers participating in the Siyaphumelela (“We Succeed”) South African student success initiative to attend Achieving the Dream's annual student success conference in February 2020 and continue ongoing learning exchanges with ATD network colleges.   View Website

Achieving the Dream is a national reform network that seeks to increase the academic success of community college students, particularly low-income and underrepresented students. This investment will enable ATD to work with AchieveMission, a nonprofit consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations improve leadership development and human capital management practices. View Website

The national reform network seeks to increase the academic success of community college students, particularly low-income and underrepresented students. This financial amendment will enable Achieving the Dream (ATD) to confer the 2018 Leah Meyer Austin Award on a community college that has made significant strides in improving student outcomes. Given annually since 2009, this influential award provides the winning college both modest financial resources to continue its efforts and, more importantly, public validation of its student-centered reforms.  View Website

The national reform network seeks to increase the academic success of community college students, particularly low-income and underrepresented students. This financial amendment will enable broader and deeper partnership between Achieving the Dream (ATD) and Kresge’s Siyaphumelela ("We Succeed") access and success initiative in South Africa.  View Website

This financial amendment supports Kresge-sponsored South African delegates' participation in ATD learning opportunities. View Website

This financial amendment will enable Kresge’s continued membership in the Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group and facilitate AGAG’s 20th Anniversary learning series, "Disrupting Silos, Connecting Conversations, Creating Impact." View Website

The American Council on Education (ACE), in partnership with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will reimagine the 50-year-old Carnegie Classification System to better reflect higher education’s public purpose and impact. The Carnegie system is the leading framework for classifying colleges and universities, clustering institutions by factors such as numbers and types of degrees awarded and research activity. View Website

The fund provides scholarships to Native American students and supports the country’s tribal colleges and universities. Building on a 2013 AICF grant, three years of support will go toward Achieving the Dream to foster Native American student success more broadly. Focus groups and surveys will be created after a formal institutional readiness assessment is developed and two to three colleges will be chosen for the case study. View Website

This grant supports the American Indian College Fund’s Emergency Grant Aid Program which provides emergency financial aid to Tribal College students facing basic needs deficiencies exacerbated by campus closures and other COVID-19 disruptions. View Website

APIA Scholars' mission is to make a difference in the lives of APIA students by providing them with resources that increase their access to higher education which serves as the foundation for their future success and contributions to a more vibrant America. This grant supports efforts to study Pacific Islanders in higher education and develop a plan for building leadership capacity-building for Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs).  View Website

This grant will enable Asian & Pacific Islander American (APIA) Scholars’ growth as a thought leader and national advocate for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) college students by funding two distinct but interrelated projects: 1) implementation of student success strategies at partnering colleges; and 2) exploration of mental health supports through a digital app. View Website

The foundation is serving as the fiscal sponsor and coordinator of the University Innovation Alliance, a coalition of 11 public universities. This two-year grant will be used to design and host a national convening, as well as develop an approach to expanding the alliance’s work in the higher education ecosystem. View Website

The association for the state’s 22 public community colleges seeks to enhance student success. This funding will support four years of the Student Success Center’s operating budget to provide a more stable, permanent funding base for the center. View Website

The association for the state’s 22 public community colleges seeks to enhance student success. This grant supports Arkansas to join Strong Start to Finish (SSTF), a national effort scaling developmental math and English courses to increase the number of students entering credit-bearing classes by the end of their first year in community college or broad-access four-year institution. Strong Start Arkansas will implement high quality, rigorous co-requisite courses in mathematics and English at scale across all 22 two-year and 10 four-year public colleges and universities in partnership with the Dana Center and Complete College America. View Website

The membership association of governing boards represents more than 6,500 elected and appointed trustees who oversee 1,200 community, technical and junior colleges in the United States and abroad. This funding will be used to develop programming related to the Student Success National Network, and other topics, at the association’s conference. View Website

The association provides consulting services and research on best practices in governance to 1,300 boards representing 1,900 colleges, universities and related foundations. This two-year grant will help strengthen historically black college and university governance as well as generate additional revenue for a selected institution through a three-step system. View Website