Our College Scholarship Program is Open!

Outstanding high school seniors should apply now for the nation's largest scholarship. Receive up to $40,000 per year to complete your bachelor's degree, as well as opportunities for internships, study abroad, and graduate school funding.

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Making Global Connections: Santiago Tober Potes

Through his studies at Columbia University, Cooke Scholar Santiago Tober Potes hopes to learn international diplomacy strategies from both philosophy and economics. He's already made some impressive global connections in Colombia and China.

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Cooke Scholar Alumni Reconnect in San Francisco

At our recent Cooke Scholar Alumni Summit, 95 artists and scientists, physicians and philanthropists, researchers and tech entrepreneurs, lawyers and public servants shared ideas on connecting vision with action.

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Building a Better City

Cooke Scholar Chat Travieso is an artist, designer, and educator whose community-focused projects create engaging spaces. Watch our newest scholar spotlight video to see Chat in action.

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Celebrating the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s 16th anniversary

For the first time, we have compiled updates on the foundation's initiatives to educate the public, award prizes, make grants to other organizations with similar missions, and conduct high-visibility research. Click below to read our annual report.

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Executive Director Harold O. Levy Discusses School Funding in The 74 Million

"Providing adequate funds to educate students can change their lives for the better. ... Failing to meet our responsibility to children today will cause irreparable harm to them and our nation far into the future."

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Recent Blog Posts

Cooke Chronicle: Nov. 18, 2016

Popular articles focus on sanctuary campuses for undocumented students and the barriers to academic success for many low-income students.

Cooke Scholar Selena: Conducting Research and Keeping an Open Mind

Selena is attending Harvard University where she will be studying Biological Sciences with an open mind to other possibilities.

Cooke Chronicle: Nov. 11, 2016

Several scholars and publications are attempting to understand how the surprising election results will affect education policy.

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News

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Teachers College to Pilot Online College Advising Program Designed to Train Professionals in College Selection

Funded by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the new program will improve the competence of high school counselors, college advisors, teachers, librarians, school paraprofessionals, and the staff of community-based organizations to help increase college opportunities for underserved high school students

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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Report Commemorates 16 Years of Scholarships, Grants, and Research

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation today published a report summarizing its first 16 years of operation. The report details how the foundation has provided over $152 million in scholarship assistance to nearly 2,200 high-achieving students from low-income families and over $90 million in grants to organizations that serve such students.

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Friday, September 30, 2016

Cooke Foundation Seeks Applicants for $40,000 College Scholarship

High-achieving high school seniors should apply now for the nation's most generous college scholarship program. The application is open until Nov. 30, 2016.

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About the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

A video introduction to the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, a private, independent foundation established in 2000 to advance the education of exceptionally promising students who have financial need.

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