BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION GRANT TO HELP NEW ORLEANS STUDENTS EARN DEGREES, CERTIFICATES
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $175,000 grant to a Louisiana initiative that aims to help more students get an associate degree or career technical certification within a year of finishing high school.
The grant recipient, Growing Bridge Year Pathways Across New Orleans, will build from the career and technical training work already being done by other New Orleans-based training providers.
With the grant, the group hopes to expand the number of bridge year program participants in New Orleans to 160 in 2022-23 and 250 in 2023-24.
The grant is part of the newly launched Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation initiative to expand career and technical training.