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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:

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Innovia Foundation/LaunchNW

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: K-12 Attendance Task Force

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MENTOR MD|DC

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: City Schools’ Student Mentoring Expansion

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Shared Lane

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Expanding Pathways: Youth Speak Out

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Philadelphia Education Fund (PA)

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: College Access and Success Ecosystem: On-Time College Graduation Action Team

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Urban Strategies, Inc.

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name:  NICHE Initiative

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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.

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National Louis University

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Career Pathway & Community Symposium

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Achieve Atlanta

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Increasing Intentionality of College Access Programming: Using student voice to guide support and resources

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Partnership Gwinnett

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Grow Gwinnett

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Peer Power Foundation

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: Peer Power and Olympic Career Training Institute Collaboration

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L.B. Landry High School

Community Collaboration Challenge Project Name: B.U.C.S. Project (Balanced Uplifting Calm Space Project)

2022 – 2023 Recipients

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Manzano High School (Albuquerque, NM)

Middle School and High School Vertical Articulation to Adult Success

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri

Engaging Young People in Pursuit of Successful Futures

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Peer Power Foundation (Memphis, TN)

Peer Power Student Intern Tutor Program

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Philadelphia Education Fund (PA)

College Access and Success Ecosystem (CASE)

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University of Maine System

Research Learning Experiences

2021 – 2022 Recipients

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Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation (IN)

Exposure and Opportunity for Advanced Coursework

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Lighthouse Community Schools (CA)

Addressing College Persistence and Income Inequity: Developing Innovators and Entrepreneurs from East Oakland

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Overton High School (Memphis, TN)

Reducing Chronic Absenteeism for Hispanic/ESL Students

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Philadelphia Education Fund (PA)

College Access Toolkit: Building a Structured, Proactive Pan for High School Students

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Uplift Education (Dallas, TX)

Comprehensive Early Warning Indicator Tracking System

2020 – 2021 Recipients

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Access Arizona State University

Virtual College Application and FAFSA Support (you can find their September 14, 2021 Solutions Forum presentation here)

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National Louis University

Innovative Career Preparation Model to Drive Equity in Student Employment Outcomes (see November 16, 2021 Solutions Forum presentation)

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Peer Power Foundation

Peer Power Virtual Learning Lab (September 14, 2021 Solutions Forum presentation)

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Philadelphia Education Fund

Creating a PAS-informed Postsecondary Fair Toolkit (Solutions Forum presentation: September 14, 2021)

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Puget Sound ESD

Student Voice Data System (Solutions Forum presentation November 16, 2021)