Supporting
our Scholars’ college success and career preparation
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© 2022 New Haven Promise Inc. All Rights Reserved.
We connect young adults to industry, business, and civic leaders.
We provide incentive-based scholarship funding as a lever to break intergenerational poverty.
Investing in talent to build a stronger and more vibrant city
•
Incentivize academic
performance
• Career exploration
through service learning
• College advising
• FAFSA
workshops
To.
23,000 K-12 Students
• Academic
support
• Peer-to-peer mentorship
• Career readiness
through
paid internships
• Professional
development for
career launch
• Managing college
scholarships & loan debt
Through.
900 College Scholars
Back New Haven.
1,000 Alumni
• Entry-level
career
placement
• Leadership
development
• Civic & community
engagement
• Generational wealth
building
What We Do
We partner with students, families, colleges, community-based organizations, and businesses to strengthen academic skills and career preparedness.
Faces of Promise
from New Haven
are students of color
attend in-state colleges
are from households that
earn
under
$60K
are first-generation to college
are from households that earn under $30K
100%
90%
85%
71%
70%
38%
Hannah
Providence
B.A.
UNewHaven ’21
Senior Analyst
Federal Reserve Bank
Breylin
Jones
B.A. CCSU ’17
Talent Acquisition
Specialist
Yale New Haven Health
Our Impact
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Tap into the Promise talent pipeline of college students and graduates
Promise Alumni like Niasia Mercado-Walters (SCSU ’15) are building families and buying homes.
Jordy Padilla (UNewHaven ’15, Rutgers ’21) has become an engineer working on New Haven’s Q-Bridge and New York’s Queensboro Bridge. Take a look back 7 years in this video to hear from Jordy's younger self.
Empowering students and young adults to achieve their academic and professional dreams
We launch young people TO college and support them THROUGH college on their way to becoming leaders of our city.
Fontaine Chambers (UConn ’16, Quinnipiac ’24) takes us through her Law School journey and shares advice on how young law students can follow in her footsteps.
Alex Guzhnay (Yale ’24) is pulling his leadership skills and community experience to the forefront as New Haven’s Ward 1 alder.
Wealth Generators
By 2030, it is expected that
2,000 Promise Scholar Alumni will return to New Haven. They will earn
$5.7 BILLION in their
lifetime.
Over a lifetime, SCHOLAR
DOLLARS are re-invested in our community contributing significantly to a
stronger New Haven.
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Core Founders
$33,000,000
total investment in scholarships
67.7%
Four-Year College Graduation Rate
vs 59.8% National Average
86%
NHP alumni return to the Greater New Haven region
Undergraduate Debt
$12,000
vs $30,000 National Average
internships and jobs brokered by Promise for our scholars and alumni
1,100
We need your help to serve our diverse, mostly first-generation and low-income students. You can support our community in four ways:
A Call To Action
The James W.C. Pennington Scholarship Funded by Yale University:
