From Sore to Soar
College Transition
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela
Supportive Advosources
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
Website: https://charleskochfoundation.org
Description: funding innovations in postsecondary education
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
Scholarships/Grants
10000 degrees - Database of scholarships
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