KIPP Foundation
Project Title
For project support for college and career match and postsecondary success initiatives
Date
Dec. 12, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
Founded in 1994, KIPP is the nation’s largest network of public charter schools, educating more than 123,000 students, in 278 schools, across twenty-sevenregions, in twenty-onestates and the District of Columbia. Under a prior Corporation grant, KIPP built out their college access and success strategies to continuously improve their college counseling, persistence, and career preparation; codified and scaled these strategies across the network; and began to share them with other CMOs and districts. Now there are currently 15,000 KIPP alumni pursuing postsecondary degrees. A subsequent grant allowed KIPP to find scalable ways to support thousands of alumni to and through college, all the while sharing practices to benefit others. This grant builds on that work focusing on KIPP’s high school and alumni success strategies.
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For project support of the KIPP Postsecondary Success Collaborative
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
KIPP, a non-profit network of 255 college-preparatory public schools, seeks to substantially improve student outcomes, reach more students, and find scalable ways to support thousands of alumni on to college and career while sharing practices to benefit others. KIPP’s expanded aspiration for students and alumni is that they should have the skills and confidence to pursue their paths—college, career, and beyond— to lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world. Corporation support allowed KIPP buildout their college access and success strategies to continuously improve their college counseling, persistence, and career work; codified and scaled these strategies across the network; and began to share them with other CMOs and districts. This grant willbuildon that work focusing on KIPP’s high school and alumni success strategies.
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For continued support around KIPP's high school to postsecondary effort
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
KIPP, a non-profit network of 255 college-preparatory, public schools seeks to substantially improve student outcomes, reach more students, and find scalable ways to support thousands of alumni on to college and career, all the while sharing practices to benefit others. KIPP’s expanded aspiration for students and alumni is that they should have the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose—college, career, and beyond— so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed additional urgency on this aspiration as KIPP’s students, alumni, families and communities face disproportionate impact by both the pandemic and pervasive racial injustice in our country. Under a prior Corporation grant, KIPP built out their college access and success strategies to continuously improve their college counseling, persistence, and career work; codified and scaled these strategies across the network; and began to share them with other CMOs and districts. This grant builds on that work focusing on KIPP’s high school and alumni success strategies.
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For work on college and career access and success and the launch of the Charter Management Organizations Alumni Success Collaborative
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
KIPP, a high-performing charter management organization (CMO), has been serving low-income and minority students with groundbreaking success, proving that those children can achieve at high levels and can graduate from college at unprecedented rates. Now serving about 100,000 students in 224 schools, KIPP seeks to substantially improve student outcomes, reach more students, and find scalable ways to support thousands of alumni on to college and career, all the while sharing practices to benefit others. Under a prior Corporation grant, KIPP built out their college access and success strategies, codified and scaled them across the network, and shared them with other CMOs and districts. This grant builds on and continues to improve that successful work; supports the launch of a new collaboration with other CMOs to drive collective alumni success; and starts more intensive exploration, development, and implementation of career supports for their students and alumni.
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For learning and sharing across and beyond the network as part of the KIPP:2020 plan, with a focus on KIPP Through College and External Impact.
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
In our country today, if current statistics go unchanged, only one in ten students from low-income families will graduate from college. KIPP is a non-profit network of 200 college-preparatory, public charter schools in twenty states and the District of Columbia, educating nearly 80,000 elementary, middle, and high school students, that aims to change this picture. The network serves some of the nation’s most vulnerable students and has a twenty-year track record of preparing students in educationally underserved communities for success in college and life. KIPP is now embarking on an ambitious 2020 plan in which they will focus on how to scale a system of schools while remaining a learning organization; how to drive the adoption and integration of proven practices across diverse stakeholders; and how to maintain a culture of continuous improvement and create space for breakthrough innovation. This grant supports learning activities related to those areas of inquiry, with a particular focus on strengthening college success outcomes for underserved students.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
7 months
Description
In our country today, if current statistics go unchanged, only one in ten students from low-income families will graduate from college. While education is understood as the key to greater opportunity, economic mobility, and a way out of poverty, outcomes among low-income students paint a sobering picture. For two decades, Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools, which have been built on a simple formula—rigorous academic preparation infused with character education, supported by exceptional college and career guidance—have been producing markedly better results. However, much remains to be done, and KIPP is approaching its work going forward with the belief that continuous learning and a commitment to innovation must guide and be woven throughout their work, and with the recognition that as they reach more children with the aim of getting better as they get bigger, the integration of their efforts will be critical to driving improvement. This grant is for general support.