IMPACT (Improving Mississippi's Persistence and Completion Together) • $3,075,000
To implement or scale innovative, proven student success practices within Mississippi public baccalaureate institutions, to reduce achievement gaps, improve persistence and completion among underserved populations, and create a learning community for campus practitioners
College Access Services for Get2College • $5,727,331
For the Get2College program
Millsaps College-WHEF Endowed Scholarship • $100,000
In honor of the Foundation's co-founders, Jack Woodward and Herman Hines, to establish an endowed scholarship fund to provide financial aid to Mississippi community college students transferring to Millsaps
Mississippi Community College Foundation • $9,818
To support the short-term financial stabilization of community colleges
Mississippi Community College Foundation• $310,000
To provide emergency relief to Mississippi community college students impacted by COVID-19
Get2College Corps • $379,500
To promote strong, early FAFSA completion rates in Mississippi by scaling professional development and training opportunities to community college partners
Achieving The Dream • $900,000
To develop a peer learning community and build capacity among community colleges
Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy • $50,000
To support the general operations of the newly-formed organization as it develops strategy and programming to address the philanthropic needs in the state of Mississippi
Mississippi Alliance of Nonprofits and Philanthropy • $48,000
To support the creation and operations of an Education Funders Affinity Group in Mississippi
Phi Theta Kappa • $50,000 • $441,280
To support a Mississippi transfer pathway partnership by providing Phi Theta Kappa membership scholarships to Mississippi students who have demonstrated financial need
Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning • $50,000
To develop the Mississippi P20 collaborative website
Community Foundation for Mississippi, on behalf of Barksdale Reading Institute • $40,000
To examine and share insights of the extent to which insufficient reading skill impedes academic achievement during and after high school, and the impact it has on performance and completion among Mississippi students
Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi • $50,000
To increase activities that promote college access in Mississippi Delta counties
Itawamba Community College • $40,000
To increase postsecondary attainment among minority male students
Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi, on behalf of MS Delta After-School Collaborative (MiDAC) • $40,000
To improve college access programming at each MiDAC site
Mississippi State University • $25,000
To increase fall-to-fall retention rates for first-time Mississippi freshmen
Team 36 • $13,300
To support the development of ACT test prep for under-resourced high schools in Mississippi
Southeastern Council of Foundations • $5,000
To provide general operating support for advancing education in southern philanthropy
Itawamba Community College • $1,000
To support campus-wide professional development opportunity that seeks to improve the delivery of student services
Springboard to Opportunities • $1,000
To provide initial deposits in the Children’s Savings Accounts of students