Posse Foundation - Success of Program

Success of Program

The Posse Program has exhibited great success over the past 21 years placing 3,110 students into colleges and universities. These students have won over $329 million in scholarships from Posse partner universities and are persisting and graduating at 90 percent — a rate higher than the national averages at institutions of higher education. Forty-four colleges and universities, including Bucknell University, Babson College, Union College, Middlebury College, Denison University, University of Pennsylvania, Bard College, Carleton College, Bryn Mawr College, Boston University, DePauw University, Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College, Hamilton College, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Grinnell College, Kalamazoo College, Brandeis, Claremont McKenna College, Mount Holyoke College, Pomona College, Vanderbilt, Oberlin College & Conservatory, UC Berkeley, UCLA, The University of the South, Lawrence University, Wheaton College, Tulane University, Trinity College, University of Pennsylvania, and Pepperdine University are partnered with the program. Posse has sites in nine major cities across the United States: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and Washington, D.C..

In 2007, it was among over 530 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The Posse Foundation's founder, Deborah Bial, was recognized for her ground-breaking work by receiving the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the "genius grant") in 2007.

In March 2010 President Barack Obama donated a portion of his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize award money to The Posse Foundation. The Posse Foundation was one of ten organizations to receive this honor.