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Round Rock, TX – Trellis Foundation, a statewide grantmaker focused on improving higher education outcomes in Texas, has announced the appointments of Ms. Alma García as chair and Mr. Josh…

How can a student juggle family/household responsibilities, work sufficient hours for a sustaining wage, and still fulfill the unpaid clinical practicum hours needed to earn a nursing degree?  This pain point led Trellis Foundation to…

As a proud graduate of Prairie View A&M University, I’m thrilled to return to my “home away from home” in Texas to begin my role as Grants and Operations Assistant with the Trellis Foundation. Returning to Texas is an opportunity to be closer to family and to give back to a…

The image many of us have in our heads of the typical college student—someone straight out of high school focused exclusively on their postsecondary studies—is wildly outdated. Today’s students are…

At the start of the 2023 academic year, we welcomed Shamecca Perkins (Mecca) to the Foundation as our new Graduate Fellow. A former student advisor pursuing her doctoral degree in…

I am thrilled to be joining the Trellis Foundation team as a Graduate Fellow! As a first-generation college student, post-secondary education access, opportunity, and success are subjects that hit close…

Robert Frost’s poem Nothing Gold Can Stay communicates something beyond impermanence; it speaks to the importance of preservation. Furthermore, in my interpretation, it speaks to the endurance of marginalized communities,…

Today at the final day of the Business-Higher Education Forum’s (BHEF) Spring 2025 Convening, BHEF and Trellis Foundation announced a $500,000 investment to BHEF to expand the Workforce Partnership Initiative:…

CHILDREN AT RISK (C@R) is excited to announce we have received a $200,000 grant from the Trellis Foundation to strengthen our advocacy initiatives supporting Opportunity Youth and Young Adults (OYYA)…