Barzilai Foundation Partners with Greenhouse, Providing University Scholarships for Exceptional Students

The Barzilai Foundation is dedicated to improving access to education for high-potential students who face barriers that are out of their control. Obstacles that present themselves early in a student’s life can have a devastating impact that derails their future. Often, the students whose lives and communities can be most transformed by educational success face the greatest barriers.

For 2023-2024 academic year, the Barzilai Foundation extended the reach of its Access to Education programs into the United States. In the 2024-2025 academic year, we extended the impact of that work through a partnership with Greenhouse to reach more students who facing challenges to achieving their educational goals. Greenhouse is an organization dedicated to creating community change by supporting the next generation of leaders: exceptional students who have proven their capability through academic performance and overcoming life challenges.

Through this partnership, the Barzilai Foundation is providing scholarships for seven students in under-resourced communities across Colorado. These students have overcome varying hardships in their pursuit of higher education: some have fled dangerous regimes overseas and immigrated, some are breaking patterns in their family to become the first to progress academically, and some have had to care for their families even at a young age.

“All of these recipients faced challenges that could have easily kept them from achieving what they have academically,” said. Brandon Sosa, CEO of the Barzilai Foundation. “That these students chose to fight for their future and not only overcome these obstacles but succeed at a high level in spite of those obstacles really stands out. We are enthused to count them among the students we have supported, and we are excited to see what they accomplish.”

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