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Partners

As organizations committed to strengthening community colleges’ success with low-income students, Jobs for the Future and the National Council for Workforce Education are excited to partner in this groundbreaking effort to promote and accelerate innovation in serving low-skilled adults.

Jobs for the Future believes that all young people should have a quality high school and postsecondary education, and that all adults should have the skills needed to hold jobs that pay enough to support a family. A nonprofit research, consulting, and advocacy organization, JFF works to strengthen our society by creating educational and economic opportunity for those who need it most.
www.jff.org



The National Council for Workforce Education is a private, nonprofit, professional organization committed to promoting excellence and growth in workforce education at the post secondary level. NCWE, an affiliate council of the American Association of Community Colleges, provides a national forum for administrators and faculty in occupational, vocational, technical, and career education as well as representatives of business, labor, military, and government, to affect and direct the future role of two-year and other postsecondary institutions in work-related education.
www.ncwe.org



Funding Partners

Grants from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation support efforts to promote the implementation of strategies and programs to help low-literacy adults prepare for and succeed in community college occupational and technical degree programs.
www.mott.org

Knocking Down Walls: Why the Mott Foundation Supports Breaking Through





http://us.gsk.com/community/ncfound.htm



Education is the Key: Why the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Supports Breaking Through



The Ford Foundation supports the Breaking Through state policy efforts. This work focuses on researching, documenting, and testing state policies that improve outcomes for low-skill adults in their efforts to succeed in college and careers.
www.fordfound.org