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Access to Higher Education
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Projects funded in 2009
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Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de CaliforniaLos Angeles, CaliforniaYear Funded: 2009Teens In Action is a youth project of the Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA) that works with Pasadena youth to develop and strengthen youth leadership development, and access to higher education.
Youth In ActionProvidence, Rhode IslandYear Funded: 2009ACT is a youth designed and implemented service-learning training. Youth gain the skills they need to be successful, while actively building critical thinking and action amongst their peers about the systems/issues that play a role in their achievement.
Center for Multicultural CooperationFresno, CaliforniaYear Funded: 2009The Youth Graduation Empowerment Project will engage over a thousand California students in service-learning to address the Achievement Gap and increase college entrance. The team will research reasons students drop out of high school and will address those needs.
Albion Neighbourhood ServicesOntario, CanadaYear Funded: 2009Youth will focus on new pathways to higher education by informing themselves and their communities of the issues (social, financial and environmental) that hinder their progress towards post secondary education.
Llano Grande CenterEdcouch, TexasYear Funded: 2009This project will help more Edcouch-Elsa High School students and their parents understand what it takes to get into college and how to pay for it. Focus will be placed on financial literacy, especially as it relates to going to college.
Lincoln IB World SchoolFort Collins, ColoradoYear Funded: 2009The Money Talks! project will allow youth to educate themselves about their spending and investment choices, as well as educate their parents and community members on strategies for financial security.
Evergreen Public SchoolsVancouver, WashingtonYear Funded: 2009Creating Achievable Pathways in Science for All Learners (CAPSAL), will provide a seamless learning experience through service learning and leadership focused on authentic environmental challenges facing our world today and in the future.
Ionia County ISDIonia, MichiganYear Funded: 2009Local youth plan to address the local achievement gap by developing youth leaders, capacity-building, improving the quality of service learning, developing cross-cultural competencies and 21st century skills using a variety of partners to support their efforts.
Impact AlabamaBirmingham, AlabamaYear Funded: 2009SpeakFirst enriches the academic experience of gifted students from Birmingham’s public high schools through participation in an “all-star” debate team. This initiative addresses a wide array of needs created by the deficit of opportunities and resources in their local communities.
Allen Park Public SchoolsAllen Park, MichiganYear Funded: 2009The project will provide life transition skills. Leadership will work with high school, middle school and upper grade elementary school students to introduce them to varying levels of interviewing, job shadowing, and college life and curriculum, and careers.
C.A.R.E.Cullman, AlabamaYear Funded: 2009Through service -learning, the key component of CARE's drop out prevention program, students are not only staying in school, they are thriving! Highlighted in a recent publication by Clemson University, CARE is bridging the achievement gap through service learning.
Common Cents New York, Inc.New York, New YorkYear Funded: 2009The Penny Harvest works with elementary and middle schools to give our youngest citizens the knowledge, tools and power to strengthen their communities through philanthropy, service, and civic action.
LEAPS Club Project/Mena Public SchoolsMena, ArkansasYear Funded: 2009Mena High School science honor students and science teachers will form a LEAPS (Life, Earth, and Physical Science) Club that will volunteer their time to increase 3rd-5th grade at-risk students interest in science during an after-school and summer program.
Leon County Schools - Hartsfield ElementaryTallahassee, FloridaYear Funded: 2009Fourth and fifth grade students will serve as technology tutors for the adult residents at Cherry Laurel Retirement Center. Through this project, students will develop relationships with adults who will serve as mentors for these students, encouraging them to excel in school and continue their education. Students will teach the adults how to communicate through the Internet with relatives far away, including the use of e-mails, blogs, podcasts, and digital pictures and videos. Students will also work with the adults to create holiday and end-of-year projects that encapsulate all they have done.
Morgan Selvidge Middle SchoolBallwin, MissouriYear Funded: 2009Students in grades 6-8 scoring at least one year below grade level in math and/or reading will be involved in a service learning project during the spring of 2009 that will culminate in the entire student body (680) designing and constructing an outdoor classroom and nature trail.
Rockhurst UniversityKansas City, MissouriYear Funded: 2009This program seeks to bridge the achievement gap by developing leadership, civic responsibility and environmental awareness. The project's academic curriculum should help reduce the two year achievement gap that a typical Hogan student entering high school faces and increase Hogan's college matriculation.
Students Today, Leaders ForeverMinneapolis, MinnesotaYear Funded: 2009The Pay it Forward Tour aims to provide a memorable high-impact experience that will increase confidence and initiative in students, while instilling values of leadership and service. Traveling on a bus from city to city, these Tours will consist of four unique service projects over the course of five days through partnerships with community organizations in a different city each day.
Georgia 4-H Club FoundationAthens, GeorgiaYear Funded: 2009The Georgia 4-H Youth Technology Leadership Team's Cyber Security Initiative (CSI) will partner the Need-a-Computer Project and cyber education through a mobile lab to improve access and information about technology to underserved youth and families throughout our state.
Stadium School Youth Dreamers, Inc.Baltimore, MarylandYear Funded: 2009The Youth Dreamers are a group of youth in Baltimore City trying to create a better environment for youth. Our mission is to decrease the amount of violence involving youth after school by creating a youth-run youth center.
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