Bridgebuilder Fellowship Overview
The purpose of the Bridgebuilder fellowship is to:
The fellowship provides practical leadership development opportunities that can be applied in all aspects of daily life. An overarching priority of the fellowship is to cultivate and exemplify what a community of support looks like within post-secondary environments and beyond. The fellowship supports EiF’s overall mission by reinforcing the “bridge” of support alternative high school graduates receive while continuing their education.
- enhance the leadership capacity of current and former community college students through mentorship and coaching training
- support incoming Education is Forever (EiF) community college scholarship recipients with their transition from alternative high school into post-secondary education.
The fellowship provides practical leadership development opportunities that can be applied in all aspects of daily life. An overarching priority of the fellowship is to cultivate and exemplify what a community of support looks like within post-secondary environments and beyond. The fellowship supports EiF’s overall mission by reinforcing the “bridge” of support alternative high school graduates receive while continuing their education.
Bridgebuilder Fellowship Goals
- Enhance fellows’ leadership capacity through regular training on coaching, workshop facilitation, and advocacy.
- Develop fellows’ professional capacity through networking and career development
- Establish meaningful relationships between fellows and scholarship recipients in group settings
- Support scholarship recipients matriculation into post-secondary education through to graduation.
- Train scholarship recipients to be future Bridgebuilder fellows
our fellows
Our two current Fellows are residents of Scholar Studios who are former California community college students.
Scholar Studios is an affordable, dorm-style supportive housing that we are partnering with Jovenes on to provide to community college students who are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless.
Scholar Studios is an affordable, dorm-style supportive housing that we are partnering with Jovenes on to provide to community college students who are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless.