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Say Yes to Education, Inc. (Say Yes) is a U.S. non-profit organization that seeks to improve inner-city education. The main focus of Say Yes is to increase high school and college graduation rates by offering a range of support services to at-risk, economically disadvantaged youths and families, and by pledging full scholarships for a college or vocational education to children living in poverty.
Between 2006 and 2010, Wyss contributed $2.5 million to retire oil and gas leases that covered 110,000 acres of public land around the Rocky Mountain Front.In 2008, the foundation donated $12.5 million to The Nature Conservancy, [9] and during 2009–2010, an additional $35 million in support of The Nature Conservancy's "Montana Legacy Project" to preserve 310,000 acres of timberland.
UNCF, the United Negro College Fund, also known as the United Fund, is an American philanthropic organization that funds scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically black colleges and universities.
In order to fund the new endowment, a new scholarship plan was developed, allowing a family to purchase tuition for 1 son for $50, tuition for all of the family sons for $100, and a perpetual and inheritable scholarship for $200. [31] The measure, which passed the board by a vote of 12 to 4, was able to raise the $60,000 quickly. [31]
Regis High School was founded in 1914, through the financial bequest of a single (originally anonymous) benefactress, Julia M. Grant, [a] the widow of New York City mayor Hugh J. Grant. She stipulated that her gift be used to build a Jesuit high school providing a free education for Catholic boys with special consideration given to those who ...
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", [a] is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are ...
The New York State averages during that year were 480 in reading, 500 in mathematics, and 470 in writing. [5] In 2014, Alan Bersin announced the Mildred and Arthur Bersin Scholarship, to be awarded to students from Gompers Preparatory Academy, Abraham Lincoln High School, and the Preuss School who are accepted into Harvard University. [6]
Hobart and William Smith Colleges are private liberal arts colleges in Geneva, New York.They trace their origins to Geneva Academy established in 1797. Students can choose from 45 majors and 68 minors with degrees in Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Science in Management, and Master of Arts in Higher Education Leadership.