ACT Inc. is a mission-driven, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people achieve education and workplace success. This two-year grant will enable ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning to conduct a rigorous and independent evaluation of the Pell Grant expansion to dual enrollment programs. View Website

The Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives will work with 30-40 chambers to create professional development strategies that will use an equity lens to align credentials and degrees to industry sectors with clear paths for economic mobility and advancement. View Website

The nation’s oldest higher education association has historically spearheaded initiatives to improve education access and success for low-income and underrepresented students. This grant provides two years of support to strengthen capacity within an existing initiative, connect students within the local community and urban environment, and document university-community partnerships. View Website

This grant will enable the Los Angeles Postsecondary Funders Collaborative, managed by the California Community Foundation, to re-engage young people who graduated from high school but never enrolled in college, and re-enroll college students who have stopped out. The Collaborative will identify an intermediary organization partnering with local high schools and colleges to execute a strategy of in-person and virtual admissions advising, career exploration, and FAFSA completion. View Website

Catholic Charities is a non profit agency serving people of all faiths in Hartford, Litchfield, and New Haven Counties since 1920. Catholic Charities partners with all to strengthen families and inspire people to achieve their fullest potential. This three-year grant supports Catholic Charities' participation in the Boosting Opportunities for Social and Economic Mobility for Families (BOOST) initiative. View Website

This grant contributes to a pooled fund focused on pandemic response and recovery for Los Angeles postsecondary students and institutions. View Website

The Center For Family Services is a strong and innovative non profit organization dedicated to improving lives. This grant provides general operating support to the Center For Family Services as part of the Boosting Opportunities for Social and Economic Mobility for Families (BOOST) initiative. View Website

The Center for Urban Families’ mission is to strengthen urban communities by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success. This three-year grant supports the Center for Urban Families' participation in the Boosting Opportunities for Social and Economic Mobility for Families (BOOST) initiative. View Website

The coalition is an affiliate organization of a membership organization that represents universities in large, metropolitan universities that share the same values for shared knowledge purposes. This funding will support conference sponsorship for Kresge grantees. View Website

The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) is an international affiliate organization of universities in large metropolitan areas that share common understandings of their institutional missions and values. This grant will sponsor the annual CUMU Conference in Chicago in October 2018. CUMU’s annual conference assembles the largest nationwide meeting of more than 350 leaders from urban and metropolitan-based universities and colleges. View Website

This grant will enable the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) to facilitate its virtual Summer Action Summit on housing insecurity at urban colleges. View Website

College for All Texans Foundation is the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s non‐profit support organization. This two-year grant will support Phase II of the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate (TAB) program. Developed in partnership with employers and higher education institutions, TAB is designed to use competency-based education methods to reduce both the cost and time required to complete a high-quality bachelor’s degree. Competency-based educational methods move away from seat time and replace it with a more flexible structure allowing students to progress as they demonstrate academic mastery of specific topics, whatever the time, place or pace of learning. View Website

The Communities Foundation of Texas has managed charitable funds for families, companies and foundations since 1953. This two-year grant will support the Texas Regional Degree Accelerator project, an effort to boost college attainment in the five urban areas poised to produce 95 percent of the state's student population growth over the next 20 years, by linking educational institutions with local workforce needs. Each regional team includes the following partners: K-12 schools, two- and four-year colleges, employers and workforce investment boards. View Website

The foundation supports the work and mission of the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, which is an organization of businesses working to advance their community. This two-year grant will be used to scale up the chamber’s efforts to provide targeted technical assistance to 18 chamber champions with a dedication to educational attainment and professional development. View Website

The organization provides administrative and financial services to nonprofit organizations implement projects and create partnerships among local nonprofits and national funders. This grant will enable the Southern California College Access Network (SoCal CAN), an alliance of 80+ nonprofit organizations in Los Angeles County working to increase college access and success for low-income and minority students, to support strategies for college advising targeting students in public housing, young men of color and undocumented students.  View Website

This financial amendment to the Southern California College Access Network (SoCal CAN) supports continued efforts to advance equitable college access for Los Angelenos in public housing. Community Partners serves as fiscal sponsor. View Website

The national association of large and midsize public housing authorities advocates for resources to solve local housing challenges and create opportunity in communities. This grant supports public housing authorities’ efforts to increase college access and success of residents and housing-insecure students. View Website

This joint Education/Detroit grant will support the Detroit College Access Network’s (DCAN) operations for the next three years.  DCAN coordinates and supports the city’s student-facing college access nonprofits and high schools (public, charter and private) serving Detroit high school students.  Over the course of the grant, DCAN aims to increase: 1) student access to high quality college counseling; 2) the percentage of Detroit high school graduates who enroll in postsecondary institutions; and 3) increase the percentage of high school students who are academically prepared for college.  In addition, DCAN plans to update and evaluate its current strategic plan in the wake of the pandemic and the arrival of a new leadership team.  Ultimately, DCAN hopes to restore the pre-pandemic momentum it had established for Detroit student postsecondary enrollment and success. View Website

As one of the largest chambers of commerce in the nation, the Detroit Regional Chamber connects Michigan’s business community and helps its 20,000 members and affiliates grow businesses through best-practice sharing, networking and advocacy. This three-year grant will be used to support the Detroit Drives Degrees Education compact Initiative (D3 Compact), a comprehensive student success campaign to boost education attainment among underrepresented students. View Website

This grant supports the implementation of strategies identified through the Detroit Drives Degrees Education Compact (“D3 Compact”), a comprehensive postsecondary access and success campaign to boost education attainment among underrepresented students – both traditional-aged and adult – in metropolitan Detroit. View Website