How are colleges working toward sustainability? What are the challenges that they must overcome in order for their programs to outlive AACC funding?
Community colleges are actively working toward making their programs sustainable. These approaches include: course revenues; additional grants to pay for staff time and program activities; building an internal constituency at the college that supports the plus 50 program; institutionalizing program components as part of a college’s standard operations; writing the program into the college strategic plan and budget; and leveraging the work of partnerships. Although external funding is currently tight, Plus 50 colleges routinely seek grants from public and private funders to support their programs. Several colleges that have a workforce training and career development track to their programs also reach out to their local workforce development boards about funding opportunities Colleges often are supported by grant-making from their own colleges’ foundations as well.
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