Montgomery College Foundation Awarded Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Grant for Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success (ACES) Program
The Montgomery College Foundation is one of nine Washington, DC area nonprofit organizations to be awarded a 2014 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Good Neighbor Grant. The $30,480 grant will be used to support high-achieving, low-income students in theCollege’s new initiative, Achieving Collegiate Excellence and Success (ACES), which was launched last fall. The ACES program is a collaboration between Montgomery College, Montgomery County Public Schools and the Universities at Shady Grove to develop a seamless pathway from high school to community college to a university, which will increase