Our Mission
To inspire and to facilitate improvements that affect educational outcomes—especially among underserved populations—through evidence-based innovation.
Our Focus
ECMC Foundation makes investments in two focus areas: College Success and Career Readiness.
Our Values
Our values are centered on four principles: Long-Term Investments, Entrepreneurial, Research and Reforms, and Measurement and Evaluation.
Our Grants & Investments
ECMC Foundation is a national foundation that makes grants and investments across the United States.
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Press Release
ECMC Foundation Commits $1.5 Million to Aid Students Impacted by COVID-19 Pandemic
In collaboration with national and regional foundations working to address the student impact of campus closures and local and state shelter-in-place policies, ECMC Foundation will provide funding through four organizations to facilitate emergency aid to nearly 3,000 students and provide resources for more than 100,000 students. Aid will support students with unplanned financial expenses and emergencies related to sudden lack of housing, food, healthcare, technological access and other essential supports.
Grantee Leader Spotlight
Estela Bensimon, Center for Urban Education, University of Southern California
Many academics and researchers would not want to be associated with the term “activism,” but Dr. Estela Bensimon, professor at the University of Southern California and acclaimed author, doesn’t mind.
President's Corner
We Need Change Now, Not Just Years Down the Road
Recognizing the systemic barriers to equity, our philanthropy has always prioritized investments that can lead to change at a systemic level.
But there is one thing about systemic change: it can be glacially slow, taking years to impact student success.
As the stories from the last few months underscore, however, there are real people whose lives depend on how fast we can achieve progress, those who need and want change now, not years down the road.