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Promise Gets $1.3M Boost

New Haven Promise — the program that guarantees in-state college tuition for New Haven public-school students who earn B averages, show up for class, and do community service —can count on a new $1.3 million thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation for Greater New haven.

The Foundation, which created the program along with Yale University, announced the three-year grant on Tuesday. The organization has already given Promise $3 million since the program’s 2010 inception.

The Community Foundation sees New Haven Promise as one of the most ambitious and important things happening in our community today,” Foundation CEO William W. Ginsberg stated in a release. It is creating a college-going culture in our schools and promoting college access and success for our most promising young people. The Foundation is deeply proud of our role in helping to create, sustain and grow New Haven Promise since 2010 and we are very excited about what New Haven Promise can contribute over the next three years. With more and more NHP Scholars graduating and returning to our city with the education and skills needed in today’s economy, New Haven Promise is proving itself to be indispensable to how our community creates opportunity for the next generation of our young people.”

The release also quoted Promise President Patricia Melton: Nearing the end of its sixth year of operation, New Haven Promise has provided invaluable scholarship benefits in excess of $5.2 Million for more than 1,000 students and their families in New Haven. It has developed stronger connections for New Haven’s most accomplished and best educated students with Connecticut’s institutions of higher education and with local institutions and employers through mentorship and career-focused internships. Our students benefit from an entire city’s support and their success is our community’s success.”

Click on or download the above and below audio files to listen to interviews with Melton on WNHH radio about the Promise program.

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