While many high school seniors receive acceptance letters from colleges across the country this spring, young people who have experienced foster care...
Having relationships with resourceful, knowledgeable individuals is important for the college success of young people with foster care histories. Put more simply,...
Some laws can make life exceptionally difficult for homeless and runaway youth. Whether it’s requiring parental consent to receive health care or...
Advocates often urge the dismantling of the school-to-prison pipeline. But for many of our youth, prisons are already their schools. In 1954,...
For the past two years it’s been a rite of spring for Trump to propose killing the program, for advocates to defend...
Toni should be celebrating. She’s part of a rarified group — the 10 percent of students at four-year public colleges who graduate...
Subject: Education, Childhood Education, Employment, Job/Career Training, Environment | Deadline: May 3, 2019 (LOI) | Amount: Unspecified
Move over oil and gas power brokers. Take a seat, criminal justice advocates. The most influential lobbyists in Louisiana’s statehouse may be...
Subject: Education, Secondary/High School, GED, College Access, Employment | Deadline: Apr. 9, 2019 | Amount: $180,000 - $475,000
Going through the foster care system isn’t easy, but what happens to youth as they begin to transition into life outside foster...
Why did no one tell me? I’ve heard this question countless times. The last time it came from one of our foster...
In August, an 11-year-old African-American girl was tased by a Cincinnati police officer when he tried to apprehend her for shoplifting. The...
Dr. Elizabeth González, Ph.D. has been named chief program and strategy officer of the California-based College Futures Foundation (CFF). González’s career is...
Da’Sean Harrison, 22, has ambitions to be a general contractor, a master of all trades. Now working on a construction job in...
Young people in the child welfare system, most of whom have experienced trauma and frequent loss, have all the same capabilities as...
Rebecca C. Villarreal, Ph.D. is the new director of education grantmaking in the Community Investments Division of the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation...
This latest edition of GLSEN's flagship report on the experiences of LGBTQ youth in schools across the country shows a worrying uptick...
America’s justice system is reverting to 1960s-style “law-and-order” policies that are exacting a heavy toll on communities of color, especially young people,...
Subject: Education, Minority Students, Academic Improvement | Deadline: Oct. 26, 2018 | Amount: Up to $13 million
Subject: Community Development, Job/Career Training, Education, Safety, Drug Abuse | Deadline: Jan. 30, 2019 | Amount: Unspecified