Helios Education Foundation

Other Headlines

Arizona Community Foundation and Helios Education Foundation Award $500000 for Education Reform for Foster Youth
Arizona Community Foundation and Helios Education Foundation Award $500,000 for Education Reform for Foster Youth

The Arizona Community Foundation and Helios Education Foundation proudly announce the award of $500,000 to the National Center for Youth Law. The grant is the fourth award in three years from the Accio Education Fund, a venture capital type of charitable fund created by ACF and Helios. The Fund, which is held and managed at ACF, was established to support the development and expansion of innovative education reform efforts for the benefit of Arizona students, with ACF and Helios contributing equally.

Students Rally around STEM
Students Rally around STEM

Over 200 students from across Pinal County Arizona stepped foot on the Central Arizona College (CAC) campus for a day full of hands on science labs, panel discussions and group activities.

The Arizona Rural Education Alliance Foundation hosted the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Field Day with support from CAC.

Dropping Latino graduation rates may damage Arizonas economic future
Dropping Latino graduation rates may damage Arizona's economic future  

As colleagues at two local foundations, the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust and Helios Education Foundation, we encourage you to read a new report, "Dropped? Latino Education and Arizona's Economic Future."

Why "Dropped" with a question mark?

Eleven years ago Morrison Institute for Public Policy published "Five Shoes Waiting To Drop on Arizona's Future."

The lagging graduation rates of Latinos represented one of those shoes that the report warned could drop, damaging Arizona's economic future.

That shoe is a Size 13 today. It is perilously positioned to land, not just on our Latino friends and neighbors, but on all of us.

Our Mission - Enriching the lives of Individuals in Arizona and Florida by creating opportunities for success in postsecondary education.