Young Scholars and College Scholarship Program Outreach

Project: Research project

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Description

The Program The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation established a grant with Center for Talent Development (CTD) for a Community Outreach Manager specifically for their Young Scholars (YS) Program. The goal of the Outreach Manager is to establish new relationships and maintain existing relationships with schools having large numbers of low-income, high-achieving students in order to increase participation in the NUMATS (Northwestern University Midwest Academic Talent Search) Program, supply quality candidates to the Young Scholars Program, and increase quality Young Scholar applications from non/low-participating states. The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Young Scholar Program (JKC YS) is a national scholarship program that selects high-achieving youth with financial need and provides them with individualized educational opportunities and support throughout high school and college that will enable them to develop their talents and abilities. The Young Scholars Program is one of the most individualized scholarships offered in the U.S. The criteria for the Young Scholars Program are: the student must be a current 7th grader or will be attending 8th grade in the Fall (during the application season). They must be academically high achieving with significant financial need. The Young Scholars Program makes the application available in early January and has a final deadline date of May 23rd. The Foundation aims to eventually award as many as 75 of these scholarships a year, this year the goal is to award 60. With the recruiting support of the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University, Duke University’s Talent Identification Program, Rocky Mountain’s Center for Bright Kids and Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development, the Foundation has awarded hundreds of scholarships. CTD offers students that qualify for a federally subsidized program the opportunity to participate in the NUMATS Program at no cost through the support of JKC and NUMATS fe
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date6/1/135/31/14

Funding

  • Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (award signed 07/24/2013)

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