EAW Awarded Grant from Trellis Foundation
Written by: Melanie Shires | Director of Marketing
EAW is honored to be one of the recipients of a grant from the Trellis Foundation who announced $2.5 million in total awards to 26 Texas community-based organizations.
This award comes at the same time Education at Work is celebrating its successful one year partnership with UTEP and will surely provide direct impact to our mission of helping high-achieving Texas college students gain the career-ready skills and financial stability needed to succeed after graduation.
Trellis Foundation is a grant-making public charitable organization focused on improving postsecondary attainment for low-income students and students of color in Texas. Their approach is highly collaborative and prioritizes catalytic investments, focused on changing or informing change to policy, practice and systems.
“These grants are an acknowledgment of the innovative and essential work that community-based organizations engage in and our commitment to this important section of the postsecondary completion ecosystem,” said Trellis Foundation’s Executive Director Kristin Boyer. “We are proud that the Foundation’s 2023 RFP supports these organizations rooted in their communities and informed by the students and families they serve. We’re excited to learn more about their support for students to and through higher education.”
At EAW, we believe that every student deserves the same opportunity to reach their full potential. Over the past decade, we have provided more than $100 million in salaries and tuition assistance to over 8,100 students across four states and are poised for growth. Grants like this one from Trellis Foundation will help us expand our proven model to serve many more students, employers, and universities and we couldn’t be more excited.
Founded in 2012, Education at Work (EAW) is a national work-based learning nonprofit that helps students graduate with less debt and more skills, connections, and confidence by connecting them with flexible, paid employment opportunities. We help high-achieving college students gain the career-ready skills and financial stability needed to succeed after graduation. Our campus-based “learn and earn” model generates career outcomes for students, provides employers with a skilled workforce to address early talent needs, and helps colleges boost affordability while improving student success. Please contact us to learn more about EAW and our impact.
