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Trellis Foundation Announces $1M in Grants Supporting Higher Education Policy Fellowships
Trellis Foundation is pleased to announce $1 million in total awards to four advocacy nonprofits to support the participation of Texas college students in policy fellowships programs. “We’re proud to support expanded capacity for [...]
Get to Know Erica Villarreal Ekwurzel
It is an honor to join the high-functioning team of Trellis Foundation as Chief of Staff. As a fourth-generation Mexican-American from a family of hard-working migrant farm and ranch workers and a first-generation college [...]
A Program Officer’s Guide to Supporting Formerly Incarcerated Individuals
As a higher education program officer without a background in the criminal justice or justice reform spaces, I have faced a steep learning curve as the Trellis Foundation expands our work in prison education [...]
Trellis Foundation Announces Grant Award to Support Nursing Students
A $200,000 grant from Trellis Foundation will address the critical nursing shortage by helping nursing students at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso avoid the need for working outside jobs, which will allow [...]
Lessons Learned: Innovating Regional Ecosystem for Reskilling and Upskilling
Texas has a young and diverse population of working-age adults, but are we ready for the jobs of tomorrow? Over the past few years, we’ve seen how quickly the job market can evolve. Expanding [...]
Get to Know Shamecca Perkins
W.E.B Du Bois described education as the gatekeeper of access because he believed education was the key to opportunities and socioeconomic mobility. Lack of education perpetuates poverty, particularly for marginalized communities facing systemic disenfranchisement [...]