Our unique and powerful model provides holistic support to significantly increase single moms’ college persistence and completion.
Our Program Strategy
Brightway forms strategic partnerships with colleges and college systems to provide comprehensive supports proven to significantly increase college persistence and completion rates. Our early results have been outstanding.
Our holistic support includes:
- 100% coverage of family childcare costs, on or off campus, net of any available state or federal subsidies
- Financial and tuition assistance that removes critical barriers to success
- Cash assistance for emergencies or other unforeseen expenses that could derail educational progress, delivered quickly and flexibly
- Personalized advising, coaching and case management that provides guidance at every step
- Transportation assistance that ensures access to classes and resources
By leveraging existing college infrastructure, along with city, state and federal funding streams, we deliver greater impact on student success and we multiply the effectiveness of philanthropic dollars.
This approach makes Brightway’s model remarkably scalable. We believe the potential to expand our impact is effectively limited only by the resources we can secure—each dollar invested creates ripple effects across generations.
We are changing the system by partnering with the system itself.
“I can now focus more on raising my baby…and on school as well and what I need to do to succeed. Brightway helped me cover childcare, diapers, groceries, car insurance and rent.”