Grants

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation partners with educational organizations and institutions that share our commitment to enabling exceptionally promising lower-income students to reach their full potential. Through strategically targeted grants, the Foundation works to expand educational opportunities for thousands of remarkable students whose families, schools, and communities need additional resources to help these students fulfill their promise.

 

Youth Education

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s youth education grants provide resources to organizations committed to expanding educational opportunities for exceptional K-12 students with financial need.

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College Access

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s National College Advising Corps is designed to significantly increase college enrollment among low-income students who have the potential to excel in higher education, but need extra support in selecting and understanding how to pay for the most rigorous college available.

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Community College Transfer

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Community College Transfer Initiative expands opportunity for high-achieving, lower-income community college students to attend the nation’s most selective colleges and universities.

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Good Neighbor Grants Program

The Good Neighbor Grants program identifies and strengthens ties with youth-serving nonprofit organizations in the Northern Virginia, metropolitan Washington, DC, and Maryland areas that are helping students with significant financial need reach their fullest potential through education.
 

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