by Vanessa Stevens | Feb 7, 2019 | Cash for College, FAFSA, Financial Aid
Alabama Possible, a statewide nonprofit that removes barriers to prosperity, today announced that 116 High Schools received the Best Hustle Award for successfully improving their early FAFSA completion by at least 10 percent from October 1 to December 1, 2018. All 116...
by Alabama Possible | Oct 2, 2018 | College Success, datasheet, Higher Education Alliance, Jobs
by Dr. Ray Watts As UAB’s overall enrollment reached a record high for the third consecutive year, we and our community are celebrating more than the remarkable growth of our student body. We are also celebrating another year of widening access to higher education for...
by Alabama Possible | Aug 22, 2017 | Cash for College, College Success, data, datasheet, poverty
by Felicia Stewart I have a glass-half-full perspective on things, so I was encouraged to see that Alabama had climbed up from the fourth to the sixth poorest state in the nation on the latest Alabama Poverty Data Sheet. While we should appreciate that tiny step, we...
by Alabama Possible | Oct 22, 2016 | data, datasheet, Jobs, poverty
By Senator Arthur Orr According to the 2016 Alabama Poverty Data Sheet, nearly 300,000 Alabama children live in poverty. This statistic is eye-opening and highlights the need to intervene and interrupt the poverty cycle in the lives of Alabama’s children. How do we...
