The Prize
The annual Evergreen Prize identifies and helps scale programs that best help low-income youth access and complete college or vocational degrees.
➤ The Evergreen Prize consists of:
- $125,000 will be given to the winning organization in recognition of its accomplishments to date on behalf of low-income students and to support its growth goals.
- All three finalists will present at the Oct 15th Awards Dinner attended by national education and foundation leaders. The Prize Winner will be announced following the presentations.
- Ongoing PR and marketing support to broadly promote their organization.
- Advice from a group of ed-tech and business consultants to explore non-philanthropic revenue generation opportunities.
“We need to identify and grow exciting new programs that significantly boost lower income 18 - 25 year-olds toward college and vocational school success.”
Eligibility
Criteria
➤ Do you think your organization is eligible?
Take our eligibility quiz to confirm and to begin the application process
1
US-based non-profit or government organizations.
Including education and workforce development programs.
2
Evidence of success.
Applicants must provide evidence of their success and cost-effectiveness, preferably from an independent evaluation.
3
Path to scale.
Organizations must supply a plan for scaling the number of low-income youth they impact.
4
Transparency.
Applicants must be willing to share their program model with other organizations looking to improve outcomes for low-income youth.
Applications now open through August 31, 2018!
Prize
Leadership
Evergreen Prize judge committee
John Deasy
Superintendent, Stockton Unified School District
Dr. John B. King Jr.
President and CEO of Ed Trust; former US Secretary of Education
Saskia Levy-Thompson
Program Director, New Designs to Advance Learning, Carnegie Foundation
Jamie Lockwood
K-12 Education Partners Manager, Facebook Education
Bridget Terry Long
Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Todd Penner
Portfolio Director, College Success, Dell Foundation
Dan Porterfield
President, Aspen Institute
Barry Salzberg
former Global CEO Deloitte Touche
Jon Schnur
Chairman and CEO of America Achieves
Carina Wong
Senior Advisor for Innovation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Evergreen Prize steering committee and co-founders
Jerry Greenwald
Co-founder, Greenbriar Equity Group; Evergreen Prize Chairman
Ben Castleman
Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy at University of Virginia; Evergreen Prize Managing Director
Brad Greenwald
Founder and Managing Partner, Hilltop Venture Partners; Evergreen Prize Managing Director
Keith Frome
CEO and Co-Founder, PeerForward
Rachel Greenwald
Best Selling Author and Speaker
Grace Greenwald
Student, Stanford University, 2019
“By shining a spotlight on the Evergreen Prize winner, we will generate media and public awareness to accelerate the program’s growth.”