Nyah Project

Nyah Project clears the pathway to college by providing training and tech tools that remove the practical and systemic barriers that prevent more than 40% of underrepresented high school students each year from accessing higher education.

IMPACT: We know what students need to improve college access outcomes. In fact, over the past 10 years, we have helped high school students unlock over $40 million in scholarships, with the median award of $217,000,  avoid more than $20 million in student debt and successfully navigate the college admissions process at higher rates than national averages. Students in our fellowship program boast a 100% college matriculation rate with 98% winning scholarships. When quantified by scholarship dollars won to date, every dollar invested into Nyah Project yields a 45x return on impact. 

Access Online, our on-demand college access coaching tech platform, helps individual students and organizations improve outcomes for a fraction of the cost of private coaching.  Since 2021, our generous funding partners have enabled Nyah Project to subsidize over $425,000 to support more than 1,800 student users who have amassed over 56,000 individual course enrollments. 

VISION: We know that access to higher education changes lives. A college degree is one of the greatest opportunity accelerators-- generating increased lifetime earnings and faster social mobility.  We have a bold vision. We’re on a mission to unlock more than $1 billion in scholarships and support 100,000 students through their college admissions journey.

WHO WE SERVE: Over 99% identify as youth of color, 90% hail from low- and moderate-income populations, 60% are female, 10% LGBTQIA, and at least 44% are first generation college students. 90% live in Miami-Dade County and 10% live in Broward County.

OFFERINGS:
1) College + Scholarship Access Coaching: Access Online improves college admissions outcomes.  Our SaaS technology platform leverages the Access Method® validated over 15+ years throughout 35+ on-demand, self-paced coaching lessons that includes interactive exercises and video-based instruction to help students acquire critical competencies that are often missing from standard in-school curriculum. Access Online integrates seamlessly into existing college bound programs or acts as a standalone resource. 

2) Tools for College Access Professionals: Groups (schools, districts, CBOs, and scholarship programs, etc.) embed the Access Online platform into existing college bound programming with ready-to-use, high-quality online content to improve college admissions outcomes for the students they serve.  Group offerings includes student licenses/ subscriptions to Access Online; premium cohort management features to monitor and measure skill building progress individually and as a group; online community of practice; customized data sets and outcomes reporting.  

3) Transformative Leadership Experiences, Locally and Abroad: We increase college acceptance and scholarship success rates through LEAD, a spring leadership intensive, and our Global Youth Leadership Fellowship, a 12 month fellowship program that incorporates international leadership experiences in Africa or Asia, combined with wrap-around college access and career pathway support. 

View our Overview Deck to learn more: www.nyahproject.org/deck