Denver
Impact
Opening doors, unlocking potential, and transforming futures one scholar at a time. We believe education is the key to breaking generational cycles.
Challenge Foundation scholars have gone on to become engineers, attorneys, architects, accountants, doctors, teachers, entrepreneurs, business owners, researchers, and more.
98%
of Challenge Foundation high school graduates enroll in post-secondary programs.
This far exceeds the national average of 52.3% of low-income high school graduates enrolling in post-secondary programs [1].
Our scholars are not just enrolling in school, they are thriving, persisting, and graduating at rates that far exceed national averages.
89%
of our scholars who attend a post-secondary program are persisting and/or graduating from college as opposed to the national average of just 26% [2].
Over the lifetime of the program, we've had a total of 157 high school graduates. We currently serve 70 middle and high school scholars and 40 university scholars.
99%
of Challenge scholars are first-generation college students; they are the first in their families to navigate the path to higher education.
For most of our scholars, higher education isn’t just about personal success, it’s about changing the trajectory of their family’s future.
Challenge Foundation scholars have the opportunity to attend college across the US and abroad. The list below indicates where our scholars have attended.
Adams State University
American University
Ave Maria University
Benedictine College
Boston College
Boston University
Brown University
Case Western Reserve University
City College of San Francisco
Coe College
Colorado College
Colorado School of Mines
Colorado State University
Community College of Aurora
Community College of Denver
Creighton University
Emory University
Florida Gulf Coast University
Front Range Community College
George Washington University
Georgia State University
Gonzaga University
Harvard University
Heritage College
Howard University
Loyola Maryland
Loyola Marymount University
Macalester College
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Muhlenberg College
New York University
Notre Dame
Ohio State University
Pitzer College
Pima Medical Institute
Red Rocks Community College
Reed College
Regis University
Rice University
Santa Clara University
Scripps College
Seattle University
Skidmore College
St. Catherine’s
St. Louis University
St. Mary’s College
Texas Christian University
Texas State University
Trinity University
University of Colorado Denver
University of Colorado, Boulder
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
University of Denver
University of Grenoble, France
University of Miami
University of Missouri
University of Northern Colorado
University of Pennsylvania
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California
University of Wyoming
Wells College
Wesleyan University
Whittier College
ACE Scholarship
Boettcher Scholarship
Daniels Fund Scholarship
Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF)
Horatio Alger Scholarship
Latin American Education Fund (LAEF)
Putska Scholarship
QuestBridge
Sachs Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship
Schmitt Scholarship
Sources: [1] National Student Clearinghouse Research Center [2] Pew Research Center
