Welcome to Project GRAD Kenai Peninsula!
Project GRAD is a nonprofit K-16 school reform model that is currently underway across the country. The mission of the program is to ensure a quality public education for all children, increase high school graduation rates and prepare graduates to be successful in college.
As a result of GRAD’s success in the lower 48, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District invited Project GRAD to work with its lower-performing schools on the Kenai Peninsula. We are located in Homer, Alaska and we work with seven schools in the Kenai Peninsula; Nanwalek, Ninilchik, Nikolaevesk, Port Graham, Razdolna, Tyonek and Voznesenka. The variety of our students is expansive. Project GRAD Kenai Peninsula works within the vast variety of cultures in all seven schools from the Ninilchick school, Native Villages, and Russian Old Believer Villages.
PGKP’s high school program provides the support to strengthen high school academics and to ensure success in college. At the heart of the GRAD high school program is the college scholarship.
GRAD scholarships are fundamental in helping students overcome extraordinary challenges to fulfill their promise of high school graduation and college education. Privately funded at $1,000 per year for up to four years, they are available to GRAD scholars who meet eligibility requirements and enroll in an accredited college or technical school. A contract signed by a student in his/her freshman year formalizes these requirements and serves as both a guide and motivation for GRAD scholars and their families.
In its first graduating class in 2007, fourteen out of the nineteen PGKP graduating scholars (73%) reached the academic milestone of enrolling in post-secondary studies. 62% of these are the first generation of their family to attend college. Over the next 3 years, PGKP projects graduating 43 scholars qualifying for scholarships. Sustaining PGKP’s scholarship program is increasingly pivotal in supporting the dreams and potential of our young adults.
Project GRAD Kenai Peninsula acknowledges and thanks the donors who have generously contributed to the 2008 Scholarship Fund Drive.
Please consider joining them and making a difference in the life of a youth and Alaska’s future.
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Pick. Click. Give.
In January, when you apply for your Permanent Fund Dividend, you will have a new opportunity to give to Project GRAD Kenai Peninsula's Scholarship Fund.
When you go on-line to sign up for your dividend, you will see the option called "The Gift of Giving." Click and follow the instructions to make a donation.
You may give all or part of your dividend, whatever is appropriate for you and your family. We simply encourage you to give.
Read more at: Pick. Click. Give.
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Homer, AK Branch