Outreach Support for Young Scholars Program and College Scholarship Program

Project: Research project

Project Details

Description

To increase awareness and access to the JKCF scholarship program, CTD will conduct the following outreach activities: • Presentations to educators and families at schools and community-based organizations, as well as presentations and representation at conferences and educational fairs • Emails or mailings to 7th grade CTD program participants during the program year, and to 6th grade students after deadlines pass to begin recruitment for the following year. • Emails, mail and phone calls to CTD school coordinator contacts as well as to community-based organizations working with high-ability, low-income youth. • Data mining of schools and districts who have had JKCF Young Scholar applications and NUMATS participation to target outreach for meetings with school staff and parents • Phone calls to highest-scoring NUMATS 7th graders who qualified for fee waivers • Social media blasts on CTD Facebook and Twitter accounts, information on CTD website and special blog posts on CTD blog and make and promote video, in conjunction with JKCF. • Advertisements and flyers distributed to educational list serves, networks, in-house CTD e-blast list • Workshops with parents to help them complete JKCF applications.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date6/1/185/31/19

Funding

  • Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (Agmt 8/2/18)

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