The UNCF College Account Program (UCAP) is an innovative initiative that strives to foster college completion among students from low-income families. The program focuses on mitigating the key educational and financial barriers that are faced by these families by offering sound options to help them plan for their child's future.

The inaugural UCAP program, the KIPP College Account Program (KCA) is based on a partnership between UNCF and the KIPP network of public charter schools— each a leader in its field. The program, now in its third year, serves students attending 29 KIPP middle and high schools in Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Houston.

The 2012/2013 Program year plans to enroll more than 8000 students. In addition, competitive scholarships of up to $12,500 over five years are available for eligible high school seniors. Based on the program's proven success, we are looking to expand the program to other school networks and educational organizations that have expressed an interest in participating.
UCAP offers a comprehensive suite of academic, financial and social supports, which includes incentive-based college savings accounts and merit-based college scholarships. In addition, the program can include financial literacy education and college readiness training and that will follow students from the sixth grade through to college graduation.

The UNCF College Account Program (UCAP) is an innovative initiative that strives to foster college completion among students from low-income families. The program focuses on mitigating the key educational and financial barriers that are faced by these families by offering sound options to help them plan for their child's future.

The inaugural UCAP program, the KIPP College Account Program (KCA) is based on a partnership between UNCF and the KIPP network of public charter schools— each a leader in its field. The program, now in its third year, serves students attending 29 KIPP middle and high schools in Washington, D.C., Chicago, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Houston.

The 2012/2013 Program year plans to enroll more than 8000 students. In addition, competitive scholarships of up to $12,500 over five years are available for eligible high school seniors. Based on the program's proven success, we are looking to expand the program to other school networks and educational organizations that have expressed an interest in participating.
UCAP offers a comprehensive suite of academic, financial and social supports, which includes incentive-based college savings accounts and merit-based college scholarships. In addition, the program can include financial literacy education and college readiness training and that will follow students from the sixth grade through to college graduation.

UNCF/ MDRC Partnership: Performance Based Scholarships
FDPRI has teamed up with MDRC to offer a performance-based scholarship program to low-income African-American males. MDRC is a non-profit social policy research organization whose mission is to learn what works to improve programs and policies that affect low-income populations. This program will give FDPRI an opportunity to study the effect of financial support on persistence and completion among low-income African-American men. FDPRI and MDRC will disburse the two-year scholarships in two increments each fall and spring semester after attendance and academic performance benchmarks have been met. This program is part of a suite of performance-based scholarship programs currently under evaluation at MDRC.