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Access to Higher Education
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Projects funded in 2010
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A Greener DayMilwaukee, WisconsinYear Funded: 2010This project is designed to introduce elementary children to 'Green Jobs' of the future while helping them build academic confidence.
East Austin College Prep Academy - Breaking Barriers Through SuccessAustin, TexasYear Funded: 2010Breaking Barriers Through Success is a direct service learning project developed by youth to spread awareness that all students, regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status, should have access to higher education.
Project PathwaysToronto, OntarioYear Funded: 2010Project Pathways aims to increase the exposure of the academic programs with an emphasis on improving access to post secondary education in underprivileged areas and to close the achievement gap by conducting student-led academic seminars and adopting a mentorship program
Project GEM--Galesburg Enrichment MentoringGalesburg, IllinoisYear Funded: 2010Project GEM tackles the achievement gap by providing both elementary, middle and high school students with experiences in books, dance and art enrichment and mentoring that will instill in youth the ability to become a self-reliant thinker, reader and learner. Knox College students will work weekly with a group of middle school students who are first-generation potential college students. These middle school students will in turn learn how to mentor and work with elementary school students from the Galesburg community.
Speaking Out: Youth Voices through VideoDubuque, IowaYear Funded: 2010Speaking Out: Youth Voices through Video pilots an innovative educational model that utilizes student-directed curriculum, adult mentors, and curriculum-based service learning projects to empower youth, close the achievement gap, and increase the graduation rate among high school students. Speaking Out encourages students to create change in their community through civic discourse and solution-oriented inquiry processes.
The Academic Legacy InitiativeLive Oak, FloridaYear Funded: 2010The Academy Legacy Initiative incorporates students from Suwannee High School to develop three different products highlighting the value of education in a rural community in order to establish an Academic Legacy: 'Spotlight Readers', 'Community Voices', and 'Future Tours'. These products will be dynamic, engaging, and informative in striving to address the closing of the achievement gap.
Providing Education, Encouraging Restored Students (PEERS)Bronx, New YorkYear Funded: 2010Providing Education, Encouraging Restored Students (PEERS) will bring young people together to work on a project that addresses discipline policies within New York City schools. Students have expressed interest in a year-long trial period of peer juries at Monroe High School instead of suspensions and expulsions. Suspension and graduation rates will be compared over this time period to evaluate success.
Auburn University Outreach/Loachapoka High School College Preparatory ProgramAuburn, AlabamaYear Funded: 2010Auburn University students and Loachapoka High School students will be engaged together in service-learning projects to mentor middle and high school peers on study skills, computer and technology skills, advanced math, science, and communications skills.
The Penny Harvest program will sponsor the 'Full Pantry Project' during the 2009/2010 school year.New York, New YorkYear Funded: 2010The Penny Harvest works with elementary and middle schools to give elementary students the knowledge, skills, and power to strengthen their communities through philanthropy, service, and civic action. Within schools children gather pennies and then form student-run foundations to sponsor service-learning projects and make grants to address immediate needs in their community.
CSI - Cyber Security InitiativeAthens, GeorgiaYear Funded: 2010The Cyber Security Initiative (CSI) will partner the Need-a-Computer Project and cyber education through Improvement and enhancement of a mobile lab to improve access and information about technology to underserved youth and families throughout our state.GPS/GIS mapping will chart the recipients of Need-a-Computer in persistent poverty communities and add to the science, engineering and technology (SET) based practical skills for science based careers in the 21st century.
State Farm & Mercer County Community College Presents Discovering Options- Trenton Area College ClubTrenton, New JerseyYear Funded: 2010Discovering Options is geared for high school students to prepare students to think about college and other options after high school while making steps towards achieving their goals. It will compliment the studentís guidance counselors, parents, and other programs in providing students with information to discover post secondary opportunities. Weekly sessions around college selection process, financial aid literacy, SAT preparation and life skills will be held.
Approaching diversity issues using a service learning cascade.Kansas City, MissouriYear Funded: 2010A collaboration between university, high school, and grade school students will be formed to discuss and conduct activities concerning issues of diversity and social justice. The program involves collaboration between students from Rockhurst University, Hogan Preparatory Academy, and Brookside Frontier Math and Science (BFMASS) schools in urban Kansas City, Missouri.
Active Citizenship ProjectGreenville, South CarolinaYear Funded: 2010The Active Citizenship Project will provide opportunities for students at Title One and high-poverty schools to participate in extra-curricular, overnight field trips promoting democracy and civic engagement. Scholarship funds would allow Title One/high poverty students to participate in the Model Legislature and Court Conference, providing not just service-learning in civic education, but also providing much-needed extra-curricular activities that will make them more competitive in college admissions, and increase attendance in post-secondary education.
School Success: Students Supporting Students NetworkInglewood, CaliforniaYear Funded: 2010School Success is a service-learning mentorship project created and led by students at four inner city Los Angeles high schools in crisis struggling with high drop-out rates, low income, and poor graduation rates. Through this project students will create the solution; a pipeline of support for peers by utilizing the skills learned through Leadership and Peer Counseling classroom curriculum combined with meaningful community service.
Youth Education Leadership ProgramDenver, ColoradoYear Funded: 2010Youth from around the Denver Metro Area will participate in the Youth Education Leadership Program (YELP), a week-long summer seminar that aims to empower students to be effective advocates in their schools, capable contributors to Habitat's youth volunteer initiative, 'Youth United,' and self-aware public servants.
Books & BeyondBloomington, IndianaYear Funded: 2010Books & Beyond is an innovative, newly established project which promotes intercultural communication, literacy skills, advancement of education, and service-learning by engaging students in authoring, illustrating, publishing, and marketing children's books and/or a collection of short stories.
The North Star CollaborativeShaker Heights, OhioYear Funded: 2010The North Star Collaborative works to inspire girls living in the metropolitan Cleveland area to fulfill their school's mission to better the world intellectually, socially, emotionally and physically, and to foster socially conscious and action-oriented behavior in Laurel girls.
National Service-Learning Leadership ProgramSaint Paul, MinnesotaYear Funded: 2010The National Service-Learning Leadership Program will provide a training ground to bring youth together from across the nation and prepare participants to return home to address the achievement gap through trainings and intensive service-learning projects.
The Dream Project, University of Washington | BothellSeattle, WashingtonYear Funded: 2010The mission of the Dream Project is to mentor first generation and low-income college bound high school students through the college admissions process.
The Concordia University Leadership, Empowerment, and Development Success (LEADS) ProgramPortland, OregonYear Funded: 2010The Concordia University LEADS Program is a mentorship series designed to promote meaningful relationships between university students and under-privileged urban youth through four different corps programs. This program addresses low graduation rate, low testing results, high gang prevalence, and lack of positive role models.
Blank CanvasBloomington, IllinoisYear Funded: 2010The Blank Canvas program at Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University improves access to higher education for low-income minority youth by leveraging their strengths as creative problem solvers and fast adopters of new technology
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