Community-based programs are those emanating from local leaders working together to expand college access for young people in their communities and transform their local economies and/or school districts. Programs in this database fit into one of two categories. Finally, Promise programs seek to transform places, as well as individuals, and as such require community support from multiple stakeholders representing diverse sectors. Families and children know upon entering a Promise community that scholarship resources will be available to them upon high school graduation.
Because of this enrollment requirement, Promise programs function as early awareness programs. Such programs usually include an enrollment and/or residency requirement for length of attendance within the school district or eligible entity. Promise scholarship programs, a term sometimes used synonymously with place-based scholarship programs, are geographically bounded, often along the lines of a school district, although boundaries may be larger, such as a county, or smaller, such as an individual school. In compiling this database, we use a definition we have developed over the years. We welcome feedback on the database please email us at with corrections or additions. We hope that this tool will be of use to Promise stakeholders, present and future the media policymakers educators and members of the public. The Institute has also been a leader in educating stakeholders and policymakers regarding the impact of Promise programs. As other place-based scholarship programs have emerged, the Institute has worked to connect researchers across communities, align analytical approaches, and generate collective knowledge about impact. Since 2006, the Upjohn Institute has played a leading role in advancing understanding of the Promise movement, beginning with rigorous research on the impact of the Kalamazoo Promise. These programs are designed to reduce the cost of higher education for a large segment of a community’s young people, thereby transforming not just the lives of these individuals but also the places in which they live and the school districts they attend. Upjohn Institute’s interactive database of place-based or “Promise” scholarship programs.
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