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College Completion Innovation Fund (CCIF) is a grant from the Heckscher Foundation for Children, administered through the City University of New York, that funds collaborative projects to address barriers affecting low-income, first-generation, and students of color completing college in New York City.
The fund has invested more than $8 million to support innovative programs that improve college completion outcomes across New York City's educational ecosystem. Funded activities include holistic advising, academic intervention, career readiness services, digital credentialing, and wraparound support for adult learners and re-engaging stop-out students.
Eligible applicants are community colleges, educational nonprofits, and community-based organizations partnering to streamline student supports, advocate for policy changes, and scale evidence-based best practices.
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College Completion Innovation Fund – The City University of New York College Completion Innovation Fund (CCIF) is a collaborative education fund that leverages partnerships with community-based organizations and colleges to address barriers that disproportionately affect New Yorkers with historically underrepresented backgrounds succeed and persist in college.
CCIF has invested more than $8 million to support projects that aim to significantly improve student completion outcomes. A majority of the students served by these projects are low-income students, first-generation college students, students of color, and others who are traditionally underrepresented among college degree holders.
A New York City where all students regardless of race, zip code, or socioeconomic status are able to attain a post-secondary degree that empowers them to achieve a fulfilling future. Our mission is to strengthen and support New York City’s educational ecosystem to dismantle institutional barriers in order to increase individual student success.
Foster innovation and the implementation, replication, and scaling of successful best practices and programs throughout New York City. Advocate for education policies that adapt continuously to meet the needs of all NYC students. Cultivate intentional collaborations to ensure that students are seamlessly supported through their educational journeys, improving student experience.
Establish a network of professional colleagues, and make educational information accessible and actionable for practitioners. CCIF actively promotes a deeper understanding of student journeys and works to remove barriers to their success.
Through the initiatives it backs, CCIF aims to enhance existing programs and streamline processes, advocate for impactful policy changes, and foster a culture of data sharing and research dissemination to enhance transparency. These concerted efforts are geared towards achieving significant advancements in college readiness and graduation rates across New York City.
CCIF’s first endeavor to evaluate the overall impact of its funded projects on the goal of enhancing college completion and student success across NYC.
Bronx Community College,The Finish Line Project: Re-engaging Adults for Degree Completion The Finish Line Project re-engages adult stop-out students through holistic support—advising, academic intervention, career readiness, and wraparound services—helping 300 learners return, persist, and graduate despite academic, financial, and life challenges successfully.
CUNY School of Professional Studies, From Coursework to Career Signals: Digital Skills Badges for Working Adult Learners From Coursework to Career Signals helps adult learners translate coursework into employer-recognized skills through digital badges embedded in Brightspace, improving career visibility, persistence, and advancement for working students.
LaGuardia Community College , Adult Learner Evening Hub: Resources, Access, and Dedicated Space for Adult Learners The Adult Learner Evening Hub provides coordinated evening access to advising, tutoring, financial aid, career services, and basic needs, removing time barriers, improving persistence, accelerating degree completion, and building college culture.
View Full 2026 Project Descriptions & Previous Awardees CUNY College & Career Advising Fellows College & Career Bridge for All College Completion Innovation Fund Network for College Success
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Colleges and nonprofit community-based organizations in New York City. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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Youth Development Grants is a grant from The Heckscher Foundation for Children that funds programs and organizations serving low-income and underserved youth in New York City. The foundation focuses on leveling the playing field for underprivileged children, with priorities including college preparation, higher education access, academic success, and workforce development and job readiness. Eligible applicants include nonprofits of all sizes that can demonstrate measurable outcomes in the foundation's areas of interest. The foundation offers four distinct grant types, so applicants should identify the appropriate funding category before applying. Grant amounts vary based on program scope and organizational need.
College Access and Success Initiatives is a funding program from the Heckscher Foundation for Children that supports efforts to improve college readiness and degree completion rates for low-income and underrepresented students in New York City. The Foundation targets the persistent problem of academically qualified low-income students who do not apply to or attend selective institutions due to challenges completing college applications. Eligible organizations include nonprofit community-based organizations and colleges with programs addressing college navigation, application support, and financial aid literacy. Priority is given to projects serving New York City students with demonstrated need.
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.