COLLEGE BOUND Receives $100,000 Grant from Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Grant to support College Bound St. Louis as they continue to offer their To and Through Program to students from the St. Louis region. St. Louis, MO / July 30, 2024 – College Bound announced today it received a grant More »
Donation to help support credit-bearing coursework for under-resourced students in St. Louis. St. Louis, MO July 3, 2024– College Bound announced today it received a grant for $50,000 from Bayer Fund to support Bayer Fund College Bound Summer Institute (CBSI) at the University of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL). Bayer Fund More »
“No one benefits from ignorance. Although formal race-linked legal barriers are gone, race still matters to the lived experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways, and today’s ruling makes things worse, not better.” —Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson “I don’t want nobody to give me nothing; open up the More »
College Bound Recognizes a Decade of Leadership by Scott Baier St. Louis, MO (August 23, 2022) – College Bound, the St. Louis‐grown college access and success nonprofit organization recognized with the Award of Excellence from the National College Attainment Network, is recognizing 10 years of leadership by President & CEO More »
WashU Pledge covers tuition, board for admitted Pell-eligible students from Missouri, southern Illinois. On Dec. 12, 707 high school seniors received electronic notification they been admitted early decision to Washington University in St. Louis. But Zussy Chavira Duron of St. Louis got the good news straight from a team of More »
The St. Louis-area teens with whom Debbie Greenberg interacts at College Bound are doing everything they’re supposed to do as they prepare to further their education – seeking out mentors, studying for college-entrance exams, gaining financial literacy and more. But with a high-profile college-admissions scandal making headlines at the same More »