Overview

Every day at IDEA Public Schools, a promise is made in classrooms across the network: that every student will have the opportunity to graduate from college and live a life of empowered choice.

For more than 26 years, IDEA has prepared students to get to college through academic excellence, high expectations, and unwavering belief in their potential. The IDEA Promise Foundation builds on that promise by helping unlock the resources and support students need to get through college and earn their degrees.

Because getting to college is only the beginning. Students can arrive on a college campus prepared to succeed and still face financial barriers and unexpected challenges that stand between them and a degree. We believe that a student’s ability to finish college should not depend on whether they can overcome those barriers alone.

As the philanthropic home of IDEA Public Schools, we connect donors with meaningful ways to help close the gap between college opportunity and college completion. Through scholarships, strategic initiatives, endowed funds, and philanthropic partnerships, we unlock opportunities and help scholars remove barriers, persist, and ultimately graduate.