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  • Home
  • ABOUT
    • OUR MISSION
    • OUR IMPACT
    • OUR SCHOLARS
    • OUR PARTNERS
    • OUR TEAM
  • THE SCHOLARSHIP
  • STUDENTS
    • CURRENT SCHOLARS
    • HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
    • PROMISE ALUMNI
    • Hartford Promise Connect
  • FAQ
  • MORE
    • GET INVOLVED
    • PRESS
    • CONTACT US
  • DONATE

OUR IMPACT

WHY HARTFORD PROMISE?

Hartford Promise was founded to address the extremely low percentage of Hartford Public High School students going to and graduating from college (23% in 2015). This lack of higher education success contributes to seemingly intractable problems of poverty, poor health and family instability. Our Integrated College Success Model, based on sound research on college success for low-income first-generation minority students, is the most clear and direct way of addressing and reversing these chronic problems. ​
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THE PROMISE OF A BETTER HARTFORD

$7.2 MILLION
IN SCHOLARSHIPS

900+ SCHOLARS
AWARDED

90+ COLLEGES
ATTENDED

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20% of Hartford Public School Students
earned the Hartford Promise Scholarship in 2022
(up from 13.6% in 2016)

PROMISE SCHOLARS: AN IN-DEPTH LOOK

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87% persist as freshmen

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80% attend 4-year college

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70% attend in-state college

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70+% college graduation rate

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EDUCATION IS NOT JUST ANOTHER ISSUE

No single thing has a greater impact on a young person's life than a college education.
Research shows that people born into low-income families have a much better chance of escaping poverty if they earn a college degree. Hartford Promise is taking down the financial barriers that limit a student's choices and giving them the support they need to succeed.

​​It's an investment in a promising workforce for Hartford's future.
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Hartford Students REACHING HIGHER
Help Hartford's Workforce REACH NEW HEIGHTS

Hartford businesses are hungry for movers and shakers.
Motivated, disciplined, talented young people with their eyes on the prize.
You can help enrich the supply.
Hartford Promise is priming the Hartford workforce with a thriving pipeline of achievers.
Hundreds of them.
Your donation will make a monumental difference to Hartford’s vitality.
Our Promise Scholars will pay forward every dollar you give:
in promising careers, commitment to their hometown & by inspiring new generations to Reach Higher.
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THE FUTURE IS PROMISING

Guirlene Morales: Degree from Springfield College in Criminal Justice. Career aspirations: to be a resource to the spanish speaking community, a victim's advocate and juvenile advocate.
TJ Noel-Sullivan: Degree in Film & Media Studies from Yale University. Plans to to document important Hartford stories as an aspiring filmmaker.
Rode Bataille: Degree in Philosophy & Sociology from UConn. Has a big heart and the desire to aid our community in many ways.
Sara Delgado: Degree in Biology from USJ. Pursuing a career in Pharmacy, Sara is vocal about pursuing success and bringing change to her community
Nyasia Bagot: Degree in Actuarial Sciences from Temple University. Pursuing Catastrophic Modeling.
Yaw Darko: Degree in Psychology at UConn. Pursuing a Masters in Public Policy helping to change our institutions from the inside out.
INVEST IN OUR FUTURE

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

- MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

CONTACT

​Hartford Promise

750 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103

info@hartfordpromise.org
Phone: 860.956.5310


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