AT&T Foundation Announces High School Success Special Grants Program

As part of AT&T Aspire, the company's recently announced $100 million initiative to address high school success and college and workforce readiness, the AT&T Foundation is accepting applications for a $12 million special grants program to help moderately at-risk students in the United States complete high school successfully.

The high school success program offers two types of grants:
1) Project support for existing high school retention programs with a successful track record of achieving effective results.
2) Planning/capacity-building support for efforts that need additional planning time and resources.

Eligible applicant organizations include school districts and school district foundations with 501(c)(3) public charity status; charter school foundations and private school foundations with 501(c)(3) status; 501(c)(3) public charities that work on-site with public and private education institutions; and 501(c)(3) public charities that work with public and private education institutions on a project basis. Priority will be given to programs that begin serving students who are either in ninth grade or are making the transition from eight to ninth grade. Funding will also be considered for programs that begin serving students in tenth grade; no funding will be provided to programs that begin serving students after tenth grade.

For more information: http://www.att.com/gen/corporate-citizenship?pid=11546