Design Challenge Recipients
2023 – 2024 Community Collaboration Challenge Recipients
The Everyone Graduates Center is pleased to announce the following recipients of the 2023-24 PAS Community Collaboration Challenge stipends, made possible by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for the projects listed:
Innovia Foundation/LaunchNW
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: K-12 Attendance Task Force
MENTOR MD|DC
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: City Schools’ Student Mentoring Expansion
Shared Lane
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Expanding Pathways: Youth Speak Out
Philadelphia Education Fund (PA)
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: College Access and Success Ecosystem: On-Time College Graduation Action Team
Urban Strategies, Inc.
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: NICHE Initiative
Albuquerque Public Schools—Manzano High School, Grant Middle School, Jackson Middle School and Kennedy Middle School
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Middle School and High School Vertical Articulation to Bringing the Right People Together for Adult Success
We are excited about these projects’ potential to improve young people’s prospects for future success as they navigate the challenges of the pandemic/post-pandemic world, and we look forward to learning from these collaborators’ experience in the field.
National Louis University
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Career Pathway & Community Symposium
Achieve Atlanta
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Increasing Intentionality of College Access Programming: Using student voice to guide support and resources
Partnership Gwinnett
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Grow Gwinnett
Peer Power Foundation
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Peer Power and Olympic Career Training Institute Collaboration
L.B. Landry High School
Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: B.U.C.S. Project (Balanced Uplifting Calm Space Project)
2022 – 2023 Recipients
Manzano High School (Albuquerque, NM)
Middle School and High School Vertical Articulation to Adult Success
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri
Engaging Young People in Pursuit of Successful Futures
Peer Power Foundation (Memphis, TN)
Peer Power Student Intern Tutor Program
Philadelphia Education Fund (PA)
College Access and Success Ecosystem (CASE)
University of Maine System
Research Learning Experiences
2021 – 2022 Recipients
Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (IN)
Exposure and Opportunity for Advanced Coursework
Lighthouse Community Schools (CA)
Addressing College Persistence and Income Inequity: Developing Innovators and Entrepreneurs from East Oakland
Overton High School (Memphis, TN)
Reducing Chronic Absenteeism for Hispanic/ESL Students
Philadelphia Education Fund (PA)
College Access Toolkit: Building a Structured, Proactive Pan for High School Students
Uplift Education (Dallas, TX)
Comprehensive Early Warning Indicator Tracking System
2020 – 2021 Recipients
Access Arizona State University
Virtual College Application and FAFSA Support (you can find their September 14, 2021 Solutions Forum presentation here)
National Louis University
Innovative Career Preparation Model to Drive Equity in Student Employment Outcomes (see November 16, 2021 Solutions Forum presentation)
Peer Power Foundation
Peer Power Virtual Learning Lab (September 14, 2021 Solutions Forum presentation)
Philadelphia Education Fund
Creating a PAS-informed Postsecondary Fair Toolkit (Solutions Forum presentation: September 14, 2021)
Puget Sound ESD
Student Voice Data System (Solutions Forum presentation November 16, 2021)