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New Grant Award for Program Gains Media Coverage


The Minority Reporter newspaper quoted Vilma Patterson, assistant director of student services at DCC, in an article about MCC’s Save for Success program as a recipient of a second federal grant.

Save for Success — a community collaboration among MCC, MCC Foundation, Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, PathStone Corporation and ESL Federal Credit Union — makes college education more affordable for economically disadvantaged students, enabling them to persist and graduate.

Save for Success was launched at MCC in 2014 in collaboration with PathStone Corporation and ESL Federal Credit Union with a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The 2014 grant is expected to help 113 MCC students over five years. For the second $200,000 grant, MCC partners with Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection to recruit and provide support services for an additional 113 Save for Success participants.

Click the link to read the article:
https://minorityreporter.net/mcc-receives-grant-to-expand-save-for-success-program/

To date, 11 Save for Success scholars have graduated or transferred to a four-year school and more than 50 have used the funds toward their MCC education. Over 110 have started savings accounts to attend MCC in the future.

Latest data show that Save for Success participants are more likely to stay in school than non-participants: 64 percent of Save for Success students in fall 2014 returned to MCC the following fall, compared with the retention rate of 44 percent of students who were not in the program.

Hency Yuen-Eng
Marketing and Community Relations
12/02/2016