At Strada Education Network, we collaborate with organizations who help us fulfill our mission of forging clearer and more purposeful pathways between education and employment.
Since 2014, we have invested more than $120 million in strategic philanthropy, focusing on initiatives that help people pursue meaningful education and career pathways aligned with workforce demand.
At informal meetings around the country, we engage with other philanthropic organizations who share our goals. By exchanging information, we can build solutions together and make progress faster.
We invest in carefully selected organizations and funds that have a proven track record of supporting strong education-to-career pathways for learners of all types.
The event will bring employers and educators together to discuss the importance of integrated work experiences that help students apply their learning, connect with employers and develop marketable skills.
Deborah Santiago’s parents always made clear she and her three siblings would go to college.
Grant competition seeks to connect learning with employment for first-generation students, those who struggle to afford education, and students of color. .main-content__header-area .header-image .text-box { max-width: 100% !important; text-align: center; }
A college or university can be deemed a “Hispanic Serving Institution” if at least a quarter of its students are Latino. But Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, says serving Latino students is about more than just enrolling them. It’s about supporting their journey through college graduation and into the workforce. Deborah and I discuss the Seal of Excelencia, and along the way we learn about her own journey growing up in a military family and pursuing her education as a first-generation college student.
Roslyn Clark Artis grew up in southern West Virginia, the only African American in her graduating class. The daughter of a coal miner, she dreamed of becoming a lawyer and applied to every public university in her home state, hoping to find an affordable route to college.
$25 million grant from Strada Education Network taps the collective experience and insights of HBCU leaders to scale experiential learning and leadership development within the college experience .main-content__header-area .header-image .text-box { max-width: 100% !important; text-align: center; }