First-Generation College Students Get Help from the Walmart Foundation to Pursue Their Degrees
 Enabling first-generation college students to become the first in their families to graduate is a top priority for the Walmart Foundation’s higher education-focused philanthropy. To this end, the Foundation awarded a $4.2 million grant to the Institute for Higher Education Policy, which will support programs to help first-generation students achieve success at minority-serving institutions. Through this grant, 30 colleges will each get $100,000 to improve student retention and academic performance.
Additionally, the Foundation has also granted $1.49 million to Excelencia in Education to support their “Growing What Works” program. This new national initiative is designed to replicate programs that effectively increase Latino student success at the associate and bachelor levels. These two grants are among multiple others the Walmart Foundation has provided recently to help first-generation students earn their diplomas. Other recent grant recipients in this area include the Council of Independent Colleges, Scholarship America, the Foundation for Independent Higher Education, the American Council on Education and the American Association of Community Colleges.
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