First-Ever Prize Recipient Recognized for Building and Catalyzing a National Network of College Coaches that Reach Every Low-Income Student Earlier this week, at an event featuring education and philanthropic leaders from around the country, the Evergreen Prize judge committee announced that College Possible received the first-ever Evergreen National Education Prize. More than 70 groundbreaking organizations from across the country submitted applications this summer for the inaugural prize, all of whom are seeking to elevate our nation’s low-income youth to postsecondary…

The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation's On College Success blog recently spoke with our CEO and Founder, Jim McCorkell, about College Possible's mission to make college admission and success possible for students from low-income backgrounds, and the role of near-peer coaching in helping them reach college graduation. The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation have generously provided a $1.2 million, three-year grant for our Catalyze program, which seeks to embed our  model of near-peer coaching and a research-based curriculum on college…

This time of year, we do a lot of asking for things: donations, community support, scholarships, in-kind donations, the list goes on and on. In the midst of all this “asking” we also want to take the time to reflect and thank our amazing corporate partners who help make our work possible. When we think of corporate partners who we love, U.S. Bank rises to the top of our minds! In part because they recently awarded us with a generous…