Thread: LULAC REC's $1 MILLION GRANT/AT&T

LULAC RECEIVES $1 MILLION GRANT FROM AT&T

Grant Will Help Improve High School Dropout Rate Among At-Risk Latino Youth

WASHINGTON, DC — The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the AT&T Foundation, the corporate philanthropy organization of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced today that LULAC will receive a $1 million grant from the AT&T Foundation’s Aspire initiative, to implement LULAC’s Adelante America program, which will provide academic classes, mentoring and student leadership development for underserved, at-risk Latino teens in grades eight through 10.

"This important educational initiative in our community will help ensure that our nation's rich high-tech future and digital empowerment is within reach of our Latino youth," said LULAC President Rosa Rosales. "A good education is the key to a successful future. And as a long-time leader in broadband and mobile communications, and a long term dependable partner of the Hispanic community, AT&T is once again demonstrating their corporate leadership by keeping the American Dream accessible to Latino students all across the country."

The $1 million grant will be spread out over two years and will serve a total of 910 at-risk participants in the eighth through the 10th grade. The Adelante America program will develop services and activities that will link classroom learning with the challenges that students face in post-secondary education and the workplace of the future. The goals include increasing rates of on-time promotion to the next grade; improvement of academic performance as measured by grades and test scores; improvement of interpersonal relationships between the children and their peers, teachers, family and other adults; reduction of the dropout rate, delinquency and gang involvement; and achieving a higher graduation rate for its participants.

[b]“As one of the most well-respected advocacy organizations in the country, LULAC will help ensure that Latino students have the tools they need to live up to their maximum educational potential,â€

Monday, July 21, 2008 - 10:29 AM EDT
AT&T Foundation donates $1M to improve futures

Tampa Bay Business Journal
The AT&T Foundation has made a $1 million grant to implement the Adelante America program from The League of United Latin American Citizens, also known as LULAC.

The Foundation, based in Washington D.C. is the corporate philanthropy organization of AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T).

The money will go to provide academic classes, mentoring and student leadership development for underserved, at-risk Latino teens in grades eight through 10, a release said.

"A good education is the key to a successful future," said LULAC President Rosa Rosales in a release. "This important educational initiative in our community will help ensure that our nation's rich high-tech future and digital empowerment is within reach of our Latino youth," she said in the prepared statement.

LULAC has statewide and local chapters in Florida. LULAC Florida advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of the Latino population of Florida, its Web site shows.

The organization was formed more than 75 years ago, and is now one of the largest and most active membership organization serving the Latino community, it said. LULAC has developed national and community-based programs to address the needs of the Hispanic community and "to ensure that this nation's workforce obtains the necessary education and skills to keep America productive."

The $1 million grant will be spread out over two years and will serve a total of 910 at-risk participants in the eighth through the 10th grade. The Adelante America program will develop services and activities that will link classroom learning with the challenges that students face in post-secondary education and the workplace of the future.

Currently, Latinos are vastly underperforming when compared with other groups, LULAC said. The percentage of adults over the age of 25 that has earned a bachelor's degree or higher is 27.2 percent. Among Latinos, that percentage is only 12.2 percent.

In addition, Hispanic secondary school students have the highest dropout rates of any ethnic or racial group in the Unites States, the release said.

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