Greater Texas Foundation supports KIPP To (and through) College program, which is a college preparatory and support program designed to ensure access to and success in college for low income, minority students. The minds behind the KIPP charter school program and nationwide movement, Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, have recently been awarded the William E. Simon Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Social Entrepreneurship (also known as the Manhattan Institute Award for Social Entrepreneurship).
The Manhattan Institute Award for Social Entrepreneurship honors nonprofit leader who have founded innovative, private organizations to help address some of America’s most pressing social problems. Throughout our history, the United States has been distinguished by the capacity of citizens to address social problems through new organizations established through their own initiative. From Clara Barton and the American Red Cross to Millard Fuller and Habitat for Humanity, Americans have consistently come forward, without prompting or assistance from government, to organize nonprofit action to improve American society by providing services to those in need. It is those who follow in such footsteps whom the Manhattan Institute Social Entrepreneurship Award seeks to recognize.
To visit the Manhattan Institute’s website, click here.
To read more about the award, click here.
Visit the KIPP website.
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