The American Indian College Fund was awarded a $50,000 Rise Prize to create a higher education cohort of Native student mothers and programming that is responsive to their unique needs as college students. The program will be called Ina Wa Wounspe Pi, Lakota for Mothers Who Are Learning.
The “Rise Prize” is a collective effort between Imaginative Futures, the Lumina Foundation, and ten partner organizations focused on the success of parent students in higher education. Organizations based in the