Grant Strategy

Proven supports help increase single moms' college persistence and completion.

These include:

Childcare/early childhood education assistance

Financial/tuition assistance

Emergency cash assistance

Coaching/case management

Transportation assistance

Brightway partners with community college and college systems, and independent program providers, to fund supports that have been demonstrated to work.

Highlight: Brightway’s Three-Year Grant to SUNY College System

Provides critical supports to low-income student parents who are primary caregivers, including covering 100% of a parent’s childcare costs and emergency cash assistance.

Maximizes impact and efficiency by implementing in conjunction with SUNY’s expansion of ASAP, a highly successful program that delivers supports to low-income students, and has been replicated across seven states and consistently proven to significantly improve completion rates.

“The Brightway-SUNY program is a shining example of how the public and private sectors can work together to innovate and leverage tax payer and philanthropic dollars.”

— SUNY Chancellor John B. King, Jr.

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited grant proposals. For media inquiries, contact info@brightwayfoundation.org