Supporting our Scholars’ college success and career preparation
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We connect young adults to industry, business, and civic leaders.
We provide incentive-based scholarship funding as a lever to break intergenerational poverty.
Investing in talent to build a stronger and more vibrant city
• Incentivize academic
performance
• Career exploration
through service learning
• College advising
• FAFSA workshops
23,000 K-12 Students
• Academic support
• Peer-to-peer mentorship
• Career readiness through
paid internships
• Professional
development for
career launch
• Managing college
scholarships & loan debt
900 College Scholars
• Entry-level career
placement
• Leadership development
• Civic & community
engagement
• Generational wealth
building
We partner with students, families, colleges, community-based organizations, and businesses to strengthen academic skills and career preparedness.
Faces of Promise
are students of color
attend in-state colleges
are from households that earn
under $60K
are first-generation to college
are from households that earn under $30K
Hannah Providence
B.A. UNewHaven ’21
Senior Analyst
Federal Reserve Bank
Breylin Jones
B.A. CCSU ’17
Talent Acquisition Specialist
Yale New Haven Health
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Tap into the Promise talent pipeline of college students and graduates
Promise Alumni like Niasia Mercado-Walters (SCSU ’15) are building families and buying homes.
Jordy Padilla (UNewHaven ’15, Rutgers ’21) has become an engineer working on New Haven’s Q-Bridge and New York’s Queensboro Bridge. Take a look back 7 years in this video to hear from Jordy's younger self.
Empowering students and young adults to achieve their academic and professional dreams
We launch young people TO college and support them THROUGH college on their way to becoming leaders of our city.
Fontaine Chambers (UConn ’16, Quinnipiac ’24) takes us through her Law School journey and shares advice on how young law students can follow in her footsteps.
Alex Guzhnay (Yale ’24) is pulling his leadership skills and community experience to the forefront as New Haven’s Ward 1 alder.
Wealth Generators
By 2030, it is expected that 2,000 Promise Scholar Alumni will return to New Haven. They will earn $5.7 BILLION in their lifetime.
Over a lifetime, SCHOLAR DOLLARS are re-invested in our community contributing significantly to a stronger New Haven.
