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Deloitte Foundation grants help boost students’ success
Helping vulnerable high school students in local communities
In response to the extraordinary disruption to student learning due to the pandemic and related economic fallout, the Deloitte Foundation donated a total of $600,000 to nonprofit organizations in eight original COVID-19 hotspot locations across the country. These grants helped students from underrepresented backgrounds and underresourced communities - primarily students of color - persist on pathways to college and career success.
Our commitment to furthering education for diverse learners
As the COVID-19 pandemic began to send shock waves throughout the education sector, the Deloitte Foundation made one-time donations to fund education initiatives across 18 nonprofit organizations working to minimize learning obstacles for more than 100,000 vulnerable high school students nationwide. Our funding was used by the nonprofit organizations to:
- Enhance online content to accommodate virtual programming
- Provide broadband access for virtual online learning programs and internships
- Offer devices and technical support to help close the digital divide
- Hire college professors to facilitate virtual college-level courses for high school students
- Enable college and employment application and interview preparation
- Award college scholarships for graduating high school seniors
- Facilitate mentoring, hands-on job shadowing and job training, career exploration, and employment opportunities
- Deliver educator training to aid students who experienced loss and adversity during the pandemic in building resilience as well as strategies to cope through new life circumstances
Below are a few examples of the critical support these grants made possible to affect so many during this unprecedented pandemic:
City Year partners with schools in underresourced communities to create learning environments where all students can reach their full potential. AmeriCorps members serve as success coaches, mentors, and tutors helping students build on their strengths and cultivate social, emotional, and academic skills.
“The Deloitte Foundation grant enabled us to deploy additional AmeriCorps members to serve as tutors, mentors, and role models for students at Roosevelt High School, where 99% of the student population is Latinx. During this time of academic disruption, the team is focused on encouraging resilience, providing emotional support, and offering students individualized help with their virtual instruction.”
Opportunity Network’s Fellows Program supports highly motivated students from underrepresented communities from the summer after the 10th grade through high school and college graduation and into purpose- and skills-aligned careers.
“Thanks to Deloitte Foundation support, OppNet was able to continue advancing our mission to deliver rigorous college and career programming and provide additional support to help these students and their families navigate the challenges and uncertainties brought forward by COVID-19.”
More about the Deloitte Foundation
Founded in 1928, the Deloitte Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that supports education in the United States through a variety of initiatives that help develop the next generation of diverse business leaders and their influencers and promote excellence in teaching, research, and curriculum innovation.
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Kathy Shoztic
Executive Director, Deloitte Foundation
Managing Director, Deloitte Services LP
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