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College-Community Connections Partnerships

The Teagle Foundation has long felt that it has a special responsibility to the community within which it operates and over the years has contributed to a wide-range of organizations that work with young people in New York City. Our College-Community Connections program (CCC) honors this commitment and aligns our giving in this area with our concern for access to higher education. This program is designed to forge partnerships between community-based organizations that have strong college preparatory programs and colleges and universities in the New York City metropolitan area. The overall goals of the program are:

  • To enhance the college readiness of highly talented but disadvantaged high school students served by community-based organizations in New York City.
  • To encourage these students to aim high in setting their academic goals, and to succeed in reaching them.
  • To provide opportunities for faculty and students at colleges and universities in the New York City area to work with these students.
  • To encourage community-based organizations and colleges and universities to explore ways in which such partnerships can be more fully integrated, and eventually institutionalized, at their institutions.
  • To support college preparatory programs at community-based organizations.

The Foundation supported ten partnerships in a pilot of the CCC program from 2005-2008. An evaluation conducted by Metis Associates revealed that the partnerships had a positive impact on the high school students, community-based organizations, and colleges. Metis' report can be found here, and a summary of "promising practices and common challenges" is available here.

Building on the results and lessons learned from the pilot, the Foundation issued a Request for Proposals for a second round of CCC partnerships. The following partnerships were funded in February, 2009:

  • Barnard College and Harlem Educational Activities Fund
  • Brooklyn College and CAMBA
  • Columbia University and the Double Discovery Center
  • Cornell University and Henry Street Settlement
  • Drew University and Union Settlement Association
  • Fordham University and Bronxworks
  • Manhattan College and Kingsbridge Heights Community Center
  • New York University (Polytechnic) and Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women
  • New York University (Steinhardt) and Children's Aid Society
  • Pace University and Groundwork
  • Skidmore College and Sponsors for Educational Opportunity
  • State University of New York at Old Westbury and Harlem RBI

Brief project descriptions can be found here.

Additional Grants

February 2009

The Foundation recognizes that multiple efforts are necessary to ensure that all students are prepared for, and have to access to, college. As such, the Foundation made a grant in February, 2009 of $100,000 over two years to the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education at New York University for the Adolescent Post-Secondary Education Exchange Teagle Scholars Program. This program will see sophomores and juniors at New York public high school through a holistic process of college-readiness preparation, providing them with flexibly structured, individualized, and supportive tutoring and mentoring work plans.

The Foundation also made grants of $25,000 over one year to the following community-based organizations to support their college preparatory programs:

May 2009

To help ensure that community-based organizations in New York City can continue providing essential afterschool programs and services during the current financial crisis, the Foundation has made a grant of $75,000 over 12 months to the Partnership for After School Education (PASE) in support of its Supporting Afterschool Agencies in Turbulent Times (SAATT) initiative. More information on SAATT can be found on PASE's website.

March 2010

The Foundation made grants of $50,000 over two years to the following community-based organizations to support their college preparatory programs:

The Foundation also made a grant of $30,000 over two years to the Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement House to support their college preparatory programs: