Three Frame Media This grant supports "The Class," a six-part PBS docuseries premiering in 2025 that highlights educational innovation. View Website Amount 175,000 Year 2025 Location Santa Monica, California Program Education Focus Area
National Center for Inquiry and Improvement This grant supports the National Center for Inquiry and Improvement’s (NCII) second collaboration with the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program and the Ohio Student Success Center, to scale Ohio’s successful Leadership Academy. View Website Amount 500,000 Year 2025 Location Program Education Focus Area
Michigan Community College Association Foundation The Michigan Center for Student Success will use this funding to strengthen capacity building initiatives for community colleges across the state. View Website Amount 650,000 Year 2025 Location Program Education Focus Area
America’s Promise Alliance This grant supports the participation of college access and success programs to enhance educational pathways for students. View Website Amount 650,000 Year 2025 Location Washington, D.C. Program Education Focus Area
One Million Degrees This grant funds a new partnership between One Million Degrees to enhance educational capacity building and student support services. View Website Amount 335,000 Year 2025 Location Chicago, Illinois Program Education Focus Area
Foundation for California Community Colleges This grant will develop a case study of how the California College Guidance Initiative supports educational pathways for students. View Website Amount 50,000 Year 2025 Location Sacramento, California Program Education Focus Area
The Aspen Institute, Inc. This grant will enable The Aspen Institute to award the biannual Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, which elevates exceptional community colleges and facilitates the replication of promising practices in the student success field. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2024 Location Washington, DC Program Education Focus Area
Jolt Initiative This cross-team grant, one of a suite of six aimed towards democracy and student voting, will support the Jolt Initiative to address the underrepresentation of young Texas Latinos in civic engagement. View Website Amount $125,000 Year 2024 Location Austin, Texas Program Arts & Culture, Education, Health Focus Area
Education Counsel This grant will enable EducationCounsel to continue its efforts to support the higher education ecosystem process and respond to the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling ending race-conscious college admissions. View Website Amount $250,000 Year 2024 Location Program Education Focus Area
Class Action Network This grant will support Class Action’s “End Legacy Campaign”, an effort designed to pressure elite colleges and universities to end admissions preferences for the children of alumni. View Website Amount $50,000 Year 2024 Location Program Education Focus Area
Bottom Line This grant will support Bottom Line’s expansion of its best-in-nation college access and success programming to Detroit. Currently operating in Chicago, New York City, Boston, and Dayton, Bottom Line partners with degree-aspiring students of color from under-resourced communities to get into and through college and successfully launch a career. View Website Amount $500,000 Year 2024 Location Boston, MA Program Education Focus Area
Teachers College, Columbia University This cross-team (Education and Environment) grant supports a half-day convening in April 2024 hosted by Teachers College’s Community College Research Center (CCRC) in collaboration with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). View Website Amount $30,000 Year 2024 Location New York, New York Program Education Focus Area
Reinvestment Fund Inc. This grant will support the Reinvestment Fund’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Brilliance Initiative, which also received a $3.5 million dollar investment from the SIP, to enhance HBCUs' facilities, community anchor goals, financial health, and growth potential. View Website Amount $750,000 Year 2024 Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Program Education Focus Area
Tennessee State Collaborative On Reforming Education (SCORE) This grant will enable the Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (TN SCORE) to expand upon its existing trust-building and FAFSA completion efforts developed by convening the Memphis Area Presidents Council (MAPC) and the Complete Tennessee Leadership Institute (CTLI). View Website Amount $155,000 Year 2024 Location Program Education Focus Area
Postsecondary National Policy Institute This general operating grant will enable the Postsecondary National Policy Institute (PNPI) to advance professional development for current and prospective policymakers who work on federal higher education issues. View Website Amount $145,000 Year 2024 Location Washington, D.C. Program Education Focus Area
National College Attainment Network This general operating grant will support a longtime Kresge partner, the National College Attainment Network (NCAN), to bolster opportunities for students of color and those from low-income households to attain and complete high-quality postsecondary degrees. View Website Amount $900,000 Year 2024 Location Washington, D.C. Program Education Focus Area
James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy Foundation, Inc. This grant will enable the bipartisan Hunt Institute to equip state policymakers and elected leaders with learning opportunities and platforms for cross-state collaboration to improve underrepresented student postsecondary education success. View Website Amount $175,000 Year 2024 Location Durham, North Carolina Program Education Focus Area
Bipartisan Policy Center This grant will enable the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) to advance its CoPro2.0 college promise work with two projects enhancing college affordability, student success, and completion. View Website Amount $75,000 Year 2024 Location Washington, D.C. Program Education Focus Area
University of Venda for Science and Technology This grant will support University of Venda For Science and Technology (UNIVEN) to join the Siyaphumelela (“We Succeed”) initiative, which seeks to expand the national student success network from seven to 20 of South Africa’s 26 universities. Siyaphumelela 3.0 builds upon reform efforts pioneered in both the United States and South Africa and, by expanding to nearly 80% of the country’s universities, aims to nationalize evidence-based student success goals to increase South Africa’s overall postsecondary attainment rate and, ultimately, enhance individual social mobility and South Africa’s overall prosperity. View Website Amount $240,000.00 Year 2024 Location Program Education Focus Area
The Century Foundation This grant will support the Century Foundation (TCF) to highlight the need for equitable state funding and appropriations for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). TCF will develop a communications strategy using data, key messages, and information to push for systemic changes. View Website Amount $400,000.00 Year 2024 Location New York, NY Program Education Focus Area