$2.1M in expenses

Scholarships since 2006, the foundation has supported hundreds of students across virginia's 23 community colleges through its scholarships and fellowships program. Thanks to our generous partners, the vfcce has awarded more than $6 million in scholarships, helping students increase their chances of success. For the 2023 -24 academic year, 103 scholarships were awarded, totaling $458,566. The prestigious fellows program awards high-achieving second-year students with full scholarship support to complete associate degrees and develop leadership skills through a cohort model. Since its launch in 2011, 320 students have received financial support, mentoring, and leadership training through the fellows program. College attainment for parent students (caps)the virginia foundation for community college education (vfcce) launched a critical initiative in 2023 to support single parents from low-income backgrounds as they pursue college. The college attainment for parent students (caps) program advances a two-generation, anti-poverty solution that increases employment and income opportunities by providing comprehensive coaching services and targeted financial assistance. The pilot program served 100 parent students across five colleges providing direct student support through a cohort model and helped to identify structural challenges that are hindering parent-student success. Caps will be relaunched in fall 2025 to engage more colleges and support more parent students statewide.

$773K in expenses

The great expectations program helps young people who have navigated the foster care system complete high school, gain access and succeed in college, and transition successfully to living independently. Since the program began 16 years ago, 4,856 students have participated and 1,062 have earned a degree, credential, or certificate.great expectations students have almost tripled the average college graduation rate for foster youth, with 22% of ge students obtaining a college credential compared to only 8% who graduate nationally.

$671K in expenses

The rural virginia horseshoe initiative (rvhi), established in 2014, has been renamed to the gerald l. Baliles rural virginia horseshoe initiative award continuing the mission to raise educational attainment levels for students in rural virginia. Rvhi provides career coaches in rural high schools to encourage high school and college completion and offers financial incentives and to assist adult learners return to higher education and training.fourteen rural community colleges participate in the program. The program has two 10-year goals. One is to reduce the number of residents of the rural horseshoe region that have not earned a high school diploma by half, from 20% to 10%. Since 2012, that metric has lowered to 11.9%. The other is to double the population in the rural horseshoe with an associate degree or career certification. In 2012, that percentage was 26%. As of this report, that metric is up to 53.9%.since the program's inception, 91,546 students were served by 28 high school career coaches, either on a one-to-one basis, or in small groups. Thanks to engaged donors, the vfcce provides match funding that is leveraged by local college foundations to support the program.

$1.1M in expenses