About Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count      Brochure

Achieving the Dream is a multiyear national initiative to help more community college students succeed, particularly students of color and low-income students who have traditionally faced significant barriers to success. Achieving the Dream emphasizes the use of data to drive change and focuses on measurable outcomes, especially closing achievement gaps.

Eighty-three community colleges in 15 states participate in Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, which is funded by Lumina Foundation for Education, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, Houston Endowment Inc., College Spark Washington, Nellie Mae Education Foundation, The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Kamehameha Schools, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, The University of Hawaii Community Colleges, The Lloyd G. Balfour Foundation, The Boston Foundation, TERI, The Irene E. & George A. Davis Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the South Carolina Technical Colleges System, and external partners coordinated by the Palmetto Institute.

MDC is the managing partner in this initiative that includes eight national partner organizations. The national partner groups include: Public Agenda, Community College Research Center, Association of Community Colleges, JLB Associates, and Jobs for the Future (JFF), KSA Plus, MDRC, Community College Leadership program at the University of Texas at Austin.

The initiative has its own Web site at www.achievingthedream.org.