ARTICLE TAG

Post Secondary Education

6/2/2015

Citi Foundation Invests In Urban Youth

The Citi Foundation, in partnership with America’s Promise Alliance, has launched a $3 million Youth Opportunity Fund to support scalable programs that help prepare low-income youth for college and career paths.

11/21/2014

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies Fund Projects to Help More Kids Get to College

The Virginia-based Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has announced a $500,000 grant to their long-time partners, the College Advising Corps, to provide personalized college advising to high-achieving, low-income students from around the nation using video conferencing and screen sharing, among other technologies.

7/22/2014

The Real Cost of College: Time & Credits to Degree at California Community Colleges and California State University

This report focuses specifically on the hidden and unspoken costs of college, and the communities that are placed at a disadvantage.The report specifically talks about the longer students are enrolled in college, the more they will pay for tuition, fees, living expenses, books, and other education-related expenses, and the loss of time results in loss of overall money and wages.

2/18/2014

New College Scholarship Fund Announced for Dreamers

TheDream.Us Washington, DC 1150 15th Street, NW Washington, DC 20071 Earlier this month, a new fund called TheDream.US, was created to help undocumented immigrants, also referred to as DREAMers, obtain a college degree.