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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Viewpoints
OPINION: Four Ways to Break the Cycle of Food and Housing Insecurity on Campus
Taking action means dismantling our own biases and re-examining campus policies and practices that create and perpetuate stigmas and silence among students struggling with food and housing insecurity.
EIV Leader Spotlight
Eliminating Unconscious Bias in Hiring: How One Female Tech CEO is Shaking Things Up
Contrary to popular thought, having the right degrees, skills and work experience doesn’t guarantee your dream job.That reality was a hard pill to swallow for Stephanie Lampkin, an African American woman who grew up on welfare, learned to code software at age 13, and went on to become founder & CEO of Blendoor.
President's Corner
Finding Optimism in the Future of Higher Education
It hasn’t been an easy year for many college campuses. Back-to-back headlines have been, at best, unsettling. It is easy to become discouraged from the noise. At ECMC Foundation, we addressed these issues internally and asked ourselves what it meant to work in philanthropy during a time when many of us feel angst about the present and future of higher education. When we turned to the positive trends and developments led by college campuses, we realized that these headlines don’t paint the whole landscape – because so much good does happen in higher education.