Institutional Capacity Building For Student Success

Institutional Capacity Building For Student Success is sponsored by The Kresge Foundation. This program supports colleges and universities, especially minority-serving institutions, community colleges, and public universities, in reforming practices to better ensure student success and developing robust business models.

Institutional Capacity Building For Student Success - Kresge Foundation Our Story at 100 Promoting human progress since 1924, expanding equity and opportunity today Our Staff Our work is made possible by a staff of mission-driven professionals Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Central to how we operate and fund, we center DEI in all we do Careers Check for new openings and learn about working at The Kresge Foundation Board of Trustees Leaders who provide governance, expertise and support to our work Press Room Resources and information for commnunications professional American Cities Effective, inclusive community development in U.S. cities Arts & Culture Positioning culture and creativity as drivers of more just communities Detroit Expanding long-term, equitable opportunity in our hometown Education Addressing postsecondary attainment and closing equity gaps Environment Helping cities with equitable climate resilience strategies Health Building equity-focused systems of health to achieve well-being Human Services Increasing social-economic mobility for people with low incomes Social Investment Practice Unlocking capital for community development Strategic Learning, Research & Evaluation Building a culture of learning across the organization and support community learning priorities Initiatives Our time-bound funding programs can bring multiple Kresge teams together to co-create strategies Grants & Social Investments Grants Awarded A database of grants dating back to 2009 Social Investments Made A database of PRIs, guarantees and other investments How to Apply Details on eligibility, FAQs, Fluxx guidance and more For Current Grantees FAQs for partners, communicating about your work and more Institutional Capacity Building For Student Success We seek to help colleges reform outdated ways of working to better ensure student success in the 21st century.

We also support colleges with an explicit focus on serving underrepresented students – such as minority-serving institutions, community colleges and public universities – carry out their missions and better help students succeed. Colleges and universities are the most critical part of the path to earning a degree or high-quality credential.

Yet many institutional practices make it difficult for students, especially those attending college for the first time, to succeed. Students may experience lackluster or nonexistent advising, face confusing pathways to degrees, struggle to transfer courses from one campus to another, or be forced to take ineffective developmental courses that bear no credits or derail students’ paths to completion.

These and other institutional barriers have made successful, on-time graduation the exception to the rule rather than the norm. We work with colleges and universities to reform these outdated ways of working to better ensure student success in the 21st century. To advance this focus area we support networks of institutions and efforts that scale solutions across institutions.

We periodically invite applications for specific efforts through requests for proposals. A Commitment to Student Success All colleges enroll some first-generation students, often from low-income households or underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds. But certain colleges do so with an explicit and scaled commitment to increased access and student success.

Community colleges, minority-serving institutions and public institutions make it their mission to support these students along the path to college success. We support efforts to give these institutions the resources they need to join national networks dedicated to student success, to reform on-campus practices to ensure students succeed, and to develop robust business models so they can flourish now and in the future.

We focus our work on three special geographic interest areas: The Kresge Foundation has three focus cities: Detroit, Memphis and New Orleans. The Education Program has four focus states: California, Florida, Michigan and Texas. The Education Program also partners with educational institutions in South Africa.

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