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College Access and Excellence Grant Initiatives is sponsored by Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation invests in strategic grant initiatives to expand educational opportunities throughout the United States for exceptionally promising students with financial need.
Programs focus on increasing access to and success in college, including initiatives like the Community College Transfer Initiative, which helps high-achieving community college students earn bachelor's degrees at top institutions.
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College Access and Excellence - Jack Kent Cooke Foundation College Access and Excellence The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation identifies and invests a portion of its funding in strategic grant initiatives to expand educational opportunities throughout the United States. The Foundation partners with educational leaders that share our commitment to advance the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need.
An organization serving Indigenous people of North America and the Pacific Islands, Albuquerque-based AISES (American Indian Science and Engineering Society) aims to substantially increase Indigenous representation in STEM fields of study and work.
In 2021, the Cooke Foundation awarded AISES $500,000 to support the retention and success of Native students pursuing STEM degrees through their mentorship, career and college success, and chapter programming.
Community College Transfer Initiative The Foundation’s Community College Transfer Initiative (CCTI) was designed to help high-achieving community-college students earn bachelor’s degrees at top colleges and universities nationwide. The Foundation has invested roughly $7 million to develop targeted programs at highly-selective four-year institutions.
Through this grant initiative, the Foundation currently supports a cadre of selective colleges and universities and their community college partners that are committed to developing and supporting programs to improve access for high-achieving, low-income community college transfer students.
The Foundation, in partnership with the Lumina Foundation for Education and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation , has sponsored significant research designed to answer important questions related to the initiative. Learn more about the results in the research report, Transfer Access to Elite Colleges and Universities in the United States: Threading the Needle of the American Dream .
National College Advising Corps The College Advising Corps significantly increases college enrollment among low-income students who have the potential to excel in higher education, but need extra support in selecting and understanding how to pay for the most rigorous college available. The program recruits and trains recent college graduates to serve as advisers in high schools nationwide.
Launched in 2005 with Jack Kent Cooke Foundation support, the College Advising Corps has grown from 14 advisers at a university supported organization (originally based at the University of Virginia and later based at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) l) into a national, award-winning, independent 501(c)(3) organization.
It currently employs over 500 advisers and has served over 543,000 students in high schools in 14 states. Since the program’s inception, the Foundation has invested over $12 million in the program.
The Foundation’s current funding supports the College Advising Corps’ efforts to lead, develop, and evaluate college undermatching initiatives (a dilemma where high-achieving, low-income students are not applying to selective colleges that match their abilities).
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation typically awards only a limited number of grants to nonprofit organizations whose efforts complement our mission of advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. We rarely, if ever, fund unsolicited proposals.
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Educational leaders and institutions that share the foundation's commitment to advancing the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need. Specific initiatives may have further eligibility requirements. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
Current published award information indicates Varies (e.g., $10,000 - $35,000 for one-time grants). Specific initiative grants can be higher (e.g. $500,000). Always verify allowable costs, matching requirements, and funding caps directly in the sponsor documentation.
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.