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- EIN 16-1639511
- (330) 761-3113
- 10 North Main St Ste 503 Akron OH 44308-1958 USA
- www.projectgradakron.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Scholarships, Scholarships & Student Financial Aid
Mission: In collaboration with community partners, project grad akron (pga) will provide students with pathways and opportunities to achieve success from kindergarten through career. Since 2002, project grad akron has provided services to students, parents and educators to support academic achievement. Our program areas include mentoring, academic support, social services, college access, college awareness and readiness, and scholarship for many first-generation college students. In addition to these programs, we provide scholarships to students who meet our specific scholarship course criteria. As of june 2017, project grad akron has awarded nearly one million six hundred dollars ($1,600,000) in scholarships to akron public schools' graduates who have met the requirements of the rigorous project grad akron learning contract.
Programs: College access (ca) - the goal of the college access program is to increase the number of students graduating from buchtel community learning center, attending college and successfully completing college. (the word college is used to include any post-secondary accredited program). College access services begin in middle school and continue through college, although the majority of direct services are provided at the high school level. We provide programming at the middle school level focused on college and career readiness through kids2college and junior achievement financial literacy and career programs. Specific programming at the high school in our resource room includes: college and career central, a semester long intensive course focused on college applications, scholarship applications, financial aid for college, and financial literacy; small group work addressing social competencies, case management services to guide and assist students to meet the contract requirements and receive the $4000 project grad scholarship, american college testing (act) prep workshops, summer and school year institutes, math tutoring, mentoring services, service learning and community service opportunities, leadership skills development opportunities, college and career exploration, and college success services for our scholars in college.
campus family support (cfs) - cfs is the umbrella for a diverse array of services and activities to support students and families and address barriers to student achievement and social competence. Specific activities include bridge to kindergarten (transition to kindergarten), kent state university home school community partnerships, snacks and educational fun with santa, the expo for success, a career fair, and we utilize the small group process with elementary children to address specific conditions that affect children realizing social competence. We have established a significant number of partnerships with area agencies, organizations, and local universities which support our programming and services.