Link to complete info: https://www.usafunds.org/access_and_outreach/CollegeSuccessGrants/
Indianapolis-based USA Funds has announced that it will award two grants of up to $1 million each to nonprofit organizations working to bolster student success in postsecondary education.
Established to commemorate the organization's fiftieth anniversary, the awards will enable the recipients to expand programs that advance the goal of increasing the percentage of American adults with college degrees to 60 percent by 2025. The USA Funds Trustees' National Award for College Success will be awarded to a nonprofit outside Indiana, while the John Burkhart Indiana Award for College Success — named in honor of Burkhart, a local business/civic leader and one of USA Funds' founders — will be awarded to an Indiana-based nonprofit.
To be eligible, programs must be able to demonstrate that they boost student success rates in higher education, especially for underserved populations such as low-income students, students of color, and first-generation college-going students. A panel of outside advisors will recommend finalists for each award; USA Funds will announce the winners in March 2011.
"The majority of the jobs in the work force today require education beyond high school," said USA Funds board chair Ernest J. Newborn II, "yet fewer than four of every ten young adults — both nationally and in Indiana — have college degrees."
“USA Funds to Award $2 Million to Promote College Success.” USA Funds Press Release 7/08/10.
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