Prosper Waco has received a $1 million grant from the Rapoport Foundation to kick off a pilot program focused on helping local high school students successfully transition to college.

The Catholic Foundation has announced that Vicky P. Lattner will serve as chair of its Board of Trustees beginning in 2015. The current chairman, Tom Codd, Jr., will maintain a position on the board as Chairman Emeritus.

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Inasmuch Foundation (Oklahoma CIty, OK) recently awarded $5.79 million in grants to 28 organizations, all serving Oklahoma communities. The grants include more than $1 million to KIPP Reach to expand and grow a five-school model serving over 2,500 students per year. Another $500,000 was awarded to the Kiwanis Special Activities Fund to replace the old Carver Mark Twain Head Start building with a birth-to-school continuum campus next door to the newly renovated Mark Twain Elementary.