The Hampton Community Foundation is seeking applications for its Educational Success Grants Program to improve educational achievement of under-performing children and youth from their region.
Donor Name: Hampton Community Foundation
State: Virginia
County: Northampton County (VA), Accomack County (VA), Franklin County (VA), and Isle of Wight County (VA)
City: Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/01/2022
Details:
Educational success of a region’s people is a core element of a thriving and resilient region. An educated citizenry is fundamental to strong economic development and personal prosperity. Reaching developmental academic and socio-emotional milestones is critical to a child’s early success. Lack of kindergarten readiness crosses all socio-economic levels; however, children living in poverty often have multiple barriers that inhibit their educational success. Students who graduate from high school on time and successfully transition to college and complete a degree or career-based certification have a greater likelihood of living healthier and more financially stable lives.
Community Grants for Educational Success encourage growth through opportunities for all students to excel in their educational pursuits and meet the region’s current and future workforce demands.
They support innovative programs that improve academic achievement of their region’s public school students in the following areas:
- Projects that prepare children, academically and/or socio-emotionally, to succeed in kindergarten.
- Programs that prevent middle and high school students from dropping out of school.
- After-school time projects that have been proven successful at increasing the likelihood of students earning advanced or standard diplomas within four years of entering high school.
- Programs that help students successfully transition from high school into collegiate education or career-based certificate programs after graduation.
Outcomes
Grant proposals should address one or more of the following outcomes:
- Young children meet age-appropriate developmental milestones
- Children succeed in kindergarten and are promoted to first grade
- The number of quality-rated center-based or home-based pre-school facilities increases
- Public school students succeed academically and are promoted to the next grade on time
- The drop-out rate for public school students decreases
- Public school students graduate from high school on-time
- Public high school graduates enroll in collegiate education or career-based certificates after graduation.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Hampton Roads Community Foundation welcomes grant applications from 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity organizations serving residents of South Hampton Roads, including those in:
- Chesapeake
- Eastern Shore of Virginia (Accomack and Northampton counties)
- Franklin
- Isle of Wight County
- Norfolk
- Portsmouth
- Suffolk
- Virginia Beach
- Grants to Eastern Shore nonprofits are awarded in partnership with their affiliated Eastern Shore of Virginia Community Foundation.
For more information, visit Hampton Community Foundation.
