United Negro College Fund Announces Social Entrepreneurship Education Fellows

The United Negro College Fund has announced fellowship awards to eighteen African-American students through its Social Entrepreneurship K-12 Education Fellows Program, the inaugural project of UNCF's Social Entrepreneurship initiative.

Supported by a $1.08 million seed grant from the Walton Family Foundation and funding from the Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation, the fellowship program is designed to build a pipeline of talented African-American college graduates equipped to enter careers that apply innovative, sustainable models to elementary and secondary education reform. Although research has demonstrated that reform efforts are more likely to be successful when their leadership includes members of groups likely to benefit from reform, organizations dedicated to school reform often lack diversity in their leadership.