ASA Commits to Empowering Students and Support Youth Career Readiness Programs

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American Student Assistance (ASA), a national education and career-readiness nonprofit, has announced 30 grants totalling $17.7 million to mission-aligned, youth-serving organisations in 14 states. The grants will enable recipients to scale access to opportunities that improve career readiness outcomes for students in middle and high school.

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The grants focus on four key areas: work-based learning, social capital, education and career pathways, and career exploration. Recipients include The Education Trust in Washington, D.C., which received $1.5 million over three years to expand its middle school career learning programs.

Other recipients include SparkNC, which received $1 million over two years to bolster its statewide STEM career readiness programs across 20 school districts in North Carolina, and Partners for Youth with Disabilities in Boston, which received $300,000 over three years to build out its career immersion efforts.

ASA’s executive vice president, Julie Lammers, emphasized the importance of the organization’s grantmaking efforts in the youth career readiness arena. “Our philanthropic grantmaking efforts in the youth career readiness arena have been critical in gaining valuable insight on what works best for young people, fueling innovation, expanding opportunity, elevating voices, and informing needed policy change,” Lammers said.

Lammers added, “We… look forward to continuing our work with mission-aligned organisations looking to move the career-connected learning field forward to drive policy and systems change.

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