From Sore to Soar

College

Building knowledge through specialized professional or vocational training

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

Advocacy & Resources

  • Child Mind Institute

    • Website: https://childmind.org

    • Description: Support for children who are struggling with mental health, behavior, and learning challenges, and support for college students managing social and emotional situations

  • Think Higher Education

    • Website: https://thinkhighered.net

    • Description: Inclusive postsecondary education, or IPSE, is a college for students with intellectual disability, it is attending college with other peers with or without disabilities, designed to expand opportunities beyond the disability.

  • 10000 degrees

    • Website: https://www.10000degrees.org

    • Description: To achieve educational equity and to support students from low-income backgrounds to and through college to realize their full potential and positively impact their communities and the world.

  • Charles Koch Foundation

  • Degrees of Change

    • Website: https://www.degreesofchange.org

    • Description: partner with community organizations, high schools, colleges, and employers to Prepare diverse, homegrown leaders to succeed in college and career

  • Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

    • Website: https://www.thefire.org

    • Description: Defends and sustains the individual rights of students and faculty members at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process, legal equality, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience

$ Glance at Funding Opportunities

  • 10000 degrees (see above) - Database of scholarships

  • Act Six (see above) - Scholarship

  • Charles Koch Foundation - Scholarships

* Toolkits & More

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