Nyah Project

THE CHALLENGE: 3 million students applied for college last year. Their #1 concern? How to pay for it. Historically disadvantaged and BIPOC students experience significant gaps in educational access, creating a barrier to socio-economic mobility.

We believe that access changes lives.

IMPACT: Our work has resulted in a 100% college matriculation rate with 98% winning scholarships, totaling over $26 million in scholarships received by underrepresented South Florida youth. Over 95% attribute their Nyah Project resources as critical to their successful college matriculation and personal development.

Our 2022 graduates alone won over $9.1 million in scholarships and were accepted to 53 schools in 22 states.

Additionally, Access Online, our on-demand college admissions strategy and skill-building platform has attracted over 1,600 individual users and 53,000 course enrollments and increased the number of students we serve by 560% during the first two years.

WHO WE SERVE: Over 99% of youth are BIPOC, 90% hail from low- and moderate-income populations, 60% are female, and at least 44% are first generation college students. 90% live in Miami-Dade County and 10% live in Broward County.

OFFERINGS:
1) College + Scholarship Access Coaching: Access Online improves college admissions outcomes.  Our SaaS technology platform leverages the Access Method® validated over 15+ years throughout 35+ on-demand, self-paced coaching lessons that includes interactive exercises and video-based instruction to help students acquire critical competencies that are often missing from standard in-school curriculum. Access Online integrates seamlessly into existing college bound programs or acts as a standalone resource. 

2) Training and Tools for College Access Professionals: Our College Access Practitioner (CAP) Community helps college access professionals improve college admissions outcomes for the students they serve. It includes cohort based student licenses to Access Online; premium cohort management features to monitor and measure skill building progress individually and as a group; professional development training, certification, resource library and online community of practice; customized data sets and outcomes reporting.  

3) Transformative Leadership Experiences, Locally and Abroad: We increase college acceptance and scholarship success rates through LEAD, a spring leadership intensive, and our Global Youth Leadership Fellowship, a 12 month fellowship program that incorporates international leadership experiences in Africa or Asia, combined with wrap-around college access and career pathway support. 

By providing these offerings at no-cost to the students, we have an opportunity to empower underrepresented youth to attend college debt free and help narrow the racial wealth gap.