After the Funding Is Through: CACG Program Sustainability

Entering a phase of significant uncertainty regarding future funding, College Access Challenge Grant programs must implement strategies to ensure the sustainability of their effective programs. This brief discusses four potential strategies that state programs can employ to increase the likelihood that their programs–which focus on increasing the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in postsecondary education–will continue should funding end as expected in 2015 or possibly sooner.