Growing What Works

Growing What Works is supported by a $1.49 million grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to catalog and advance powerful institutional practices and strategies to improve educational outcomes for Latinos throughout the country. 

Beginning in the first quarter of 2009, Excelencia will encourage eligible colleges and universities to apply for competitive “Wal-Mart SEMILLAS” grants to replicate these proven programs on their campuses.  The acronym SEMILLAS (Spanish for “seeds”) stands for Seeding Educational Models that Impact and Leverage Latino Academic Success. 

Institutions of higher learning interested in learning more about the Growing What Works Initiative and the Wal-Mart SEMILLAS institutional grants should visit this space in early 2009 for an outline of application procedures and are encouraged to join Excelencia's mailing list to receive up-to-date information. Sign up here.