Education
$50
can teach a frontline staff member to identify the effects of trauma on clients.
$100
can cover a year’s worth of leadership training to keep and develop a great teacher.
$500
can supply a child with daycare and preschool until their parents find work and can make ends meet.
$5000
can provide an unemployed adult with vocational training, counseling and job placement services.
We support non-profit organizations that produce strong academic outcomes, such as literacy, high school graduation, college attendance and postsecondary degrees that provide steps out of poverty for low-income students.
Follow the efforts to invest in education initiatives throughout the Bay Area.
2019 IMPACT:
INVESTMENT: $7.6M
PERCENTAGE OF CORE GRANTMAKING INVESTMENT: 45%
THE NEED: Nationwide, only 21% of low-income, first-generation students who enroll in college graduate.
TIPPING POINT IMPACT:
Young people served by Tipping Point grantees earn college degrees at twice the rate of low-income, first-generation college students nationally.
- 5,613 students achieved proficiency in grade level math + English
- 1,063 students graduated high school or completed their GED
- 5,643 students enrolled in post-secondary education + persisted towards graduation