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Achieving Together
Phuong Nguyen prepared to graduate in May knowing this bedrock truth: I definitely wouldn’t have gone to Case [Western Reserve University] if not for the Posse Foundation, she said. But I definitely wouldn’t have stayed if it wasn’t for my Posse.
The Posse Foundation launched in 1989 after founder and president
Deborah Bial, EdD, heard a student say, I never would’ve dropped out of college if I’d had my posse with me. That became her inspiration for a program to send groups of students from the same urban area to college together to be there for each other. Since then, more than 10,000 scholars have been selected to attend 63 partner colleges and universities with full-tuition scholarships.