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December 11, 2019

Yale New Haven pledges $2M to New Haven Promise

PHOTO | New Haven BIZ New Haven Promise President Patricia Melton at Hillhouse High School Wednesday morning.
By Michael C. Bingham

The Yale New Haven Health system has pledged $2 million in scholarship assistance to New Haven Promise, which provides secondary-school students incentives and resources to pursue and attain degrees.

The announcement of the four-year, $500,000 annual scholarship award took place at a Wednesday morning event at Hillhouse High School.

In making the commitment, YNHH joins the nine-year-old New Haven Promise’s other principal funders: Yale University and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.

“With this generous grant, Promise will be able to ensure expanded programming that will put even more New Haven public-school students on track to earn a New Haven Promise scholarship,” said New Haven Promise President Patricia Melton at the announcement press conference.

New Haven Promise was created in 2010 under the auspices of the Community Foundation to address declining student enrollment in public schools and a high school graduation rate of less than 61 percent.

“Higher education makes for stronger communities and engaged citizens ready to tackle the future,” said YNHH President and CEO Marna P. Borgstrom. “We believe in that future and the young people of this city who will shape it.”

Calling Promise “the signature collaboration of the key institutions in this city,” Community Foundation President and CEO William W. Ginsberg said, “New Haven Promise is the best investment we can make to ensure that our community has a future that will benefit all its citizens.”

By the end of the 2019-20 academic year, New Haven Promise will have awarded $17 million to 1,900 New Haven students over its nine-year history.

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