Students seeking a unique and rewarding academic experience provided by Erie County’s private schools have an exciting opportunity. Cullen Foundation seeks to assist families of high-achieving students to mitigate the financial challenges of attaining a private middle school and high school education through our Cullen Scholars program.
Our responsive grant offers an open, rigorous, and user-friendly process that evaluates organizations aligned with our specific focus areas. In Education, we seek applications from organizations offering Supplemental Academic Programs (SAP). All programs should have direct academic outcomes, be evidence-based, and primarily serve economically disadvantaged students.
The next grant cycle for education will open January 1, 2024.
Cullen Foundation believes great talent is the fuel for high-performing schools. A strong and complete talent pipeline is critical to meeting the need for high-quality teachers and leaders. Cullen Foundation developed a focused human capital/talent investment strategy that generates, prioritizes, and sequences strategies to accelerate progress on identified talent needs over the next several years given the specific assets and needs of Buffalo’s schools.
Through rigorous strategic planning processes and analyses of school performance across Buffalo, the Cullen Foundation prioritized improving access to high-quality schools for historically underserved populations. Since 2015, Cullen has committed to dramatically increasing the number of seats in high-quality schools serving primarily economically disadvantaged students across the city via four primary investment strategies: