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The Lumina Foundation – Increasing Access to Higher Education and Employment Grants

Subject: College & Careers | Deadline: Dec. 31, 2014

National Institutes of Health – Bridges to Baccalaureate Program

Subject: College & Careers | Deadline: Sep. 25, 2015

A New Trial

Program seeks higher-ed over incarceration, but hurdles remain difficult to clear When his fellow inmates in a juvenile lockup on Rikers Island...

Why Numbers can’t Tell the Whole Story

While some young people, such as Antonio, and organizations such as NYEC sing the praises of CASES for its progress with Next...

Finding the Right Match

Program Works to Get Low-income Students into More Selective Colleges Rashid’s job is to turn that kind of thinking around.When students at...

The Plummeting Labor Market Fortunes of Teens and Young Adults

Education Department, Cities Team Up on After-School Programs

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Education Department and the National League of Cities have agreed to work together to foster development of after-school...

Getting at the Roots of Trauma

  When violence and mental illness stem from adverse childhood experiences. Eddie Bocanegra grew up in Chicago’s mostly Mexican-American Pilsen neighborhood in...

After Newtown, School Districts Across Nation Ask What it Takes to Make Kids Safe

  After the shooting at Newtown, Conn. last year, Superintendent Matt Dossey launched a program to arm a select group of staff...

Grants Awarded: October – November 2013

Stuart Foundation stuartfoundation.org/ 415-393-1551 San Francisco, CA American Institutes for Research – to support the California Collaborative on District Reform (Collaborative), which...

Grants Awarded: August – September 2013

The Atlantic Philanthropies atlanticphilanthropies.org/ 212-916-7300 New York, NY and Washington, D.C. Georgetown University – to provide policy analysis, strategic planning and technical...

How Children’s Savings Accounts Catapult Kids to College

Jonathan Cabrera working on the Computer Numerical Control machine. Photo courtesy Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical for the Deaf. When 20-year-old Jonathan Cabrera...

Increasing Access to Higher Education

Mynecia Taylor, 18, studies for the ACT at her apartment on January 6, in St. Louis, Miss. Taylor opted out of foster...

Essential Resources and Programs for Achieving Higher Education

The National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth published “College Access and Success for Students Experiencing Homelessness: A Toolkit...

Hands-On Help for Higher Ed

Anthon Smith, executive director of Seattle Education Access, and other experts shared the following tips for service providers and programs wanting to...

Child Abuse: Mandatory Reporting and Best Practices

Two brothers enrolled in an after-school program participate irregularly – daily one week and then not at all the next. The program...

Helping Can Hurt

Four years ago, a valued long-time staff member walked into Dr. Ginny Sprang’s office and announced suddenly that she was quitting. The...

Foundation Highlights Strategies to Increase Economic Security for Low Income Women

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Six months ago, the Goodwill of Greater Washington started a program to help employees overcome barriers such as lack of child...