Arlington, VA – July 22, 2015 We are very proud of our Dream scholars Allison Barrera and Ilder Garcia, both 2015 recipients of TheDream.US scholarship, for being selected out of hundreds of students across the nation to attend a very special event, sponsored by First Lady Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher education initiative. The event will take place…

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Author: Mariah Joyce Last week, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced a $5 million donation to a non-profit right here in Arlington. The announcement came via a Facebook post to Zuckerberg’s 32.7 million followers which has reached 153,072 likes and counting. The organization in question, TheDream.US, is a scholarship fund designed to…

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Authors: Amanda Bennett and Carlos Gutierrez Thanks to an executive action by President Barack Obama, Dreamers – the sons and daughters of undocumented immigrants who have been in the US since they were children – now have the ability to attend college. But too many aren’t pursuing higher education because they don’t have the means…

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Author: Jamaal Abdul-Alim Even though Diana Duarte Duran was able to get in-state tuition as an undocumented student at Phoenix College, paying the tuition bill was still a difficult thing to do. “It was still kind of hard because my parents, they have to pay rent, all the bills,” Duran, 19, explained. “I wasn’t getting any…

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Author:  Chris Nguyen SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced they were making a $5 million donation to TheDream.US, a scholarship fund that helps undocumented young immigrants attend college. Evergreen Valley College is home to four of the scholarship recipients. One of them is Gerardo…

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Author: KEITH WAGSTAFF Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are donating $5 million to TheDream.US, a scholarship fund for young undocumented immigrants. “America was founded as a nation of immigrants,” he wrote Wednesday in aFacebook post. “We ought to welcome smart and hardworking young people from every nation, and to help everyone in our society…

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Author: Sue-Lynn Moses There’s a fair amount of cynicism out there about the philanthropy of America’s wealthy elites, and nowhere is that more true than when it comes to giving for education. Long before John Paulson dumped $400 million on America’s richest university, the rap was that the rich either give to charter schools and…

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Philanthropists Challenged to Support Educational Goals of at Least 5,000 Undocumented Immigrants with DACA Status ARLINGTON, VA – May 27, 2015 – TheDream.US has issued a challenge to philanthropists: make a contribution to the national scholarship fund TheDream.US and help fund scholarships for at least 5,000 undocumented immigrants with DACA status by raising more than $30 million. To…

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More than 200 students at The City University of New York have been awarded scholarships valued at more than $5 million from TheDream.US, the largest amount received by any university in the United States. The nation’s largest scholarship program for undocumented immigrant youth, TheDream.US, is providing aid to 231 students at CUNY colleges in the…

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Mitasha Pahla http://www1.cuny.edu/sites/6/admissions/financial-aid/scholarships/the-dream-us/mitasha-pahla/ I am currently in my second semester at Macaulay Honors at Lehman College with an intended major in Biochemistry. This past December, I received the TheDream.US Scholarship and have greatly benefited from it. Born in Bahrain to Indian parents, my family and I flew to New York City as immigrants in March…

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