About Elevate
Elevate is a no-cost, no application grant opportunity for select community colleges funded by ECMC Foundation. It is designed to help students by connecting institutions to solutions that support financial wellness, student loan repayment, career readiness, and student persistence.
- Who it serves: Select community colleges seeking practical, scalable ways to support students over the entirety of their education journey.
- Cost: No cost to participating community colleges through the support of ECMC Foundation.
- What it includes: Access to a suite of solutions that support financial literacy, student loan repayment, and career readiness.
- Partners and services: Acadeum, Beable, Career Fair Navigator, ECMC Learning, ECMC Solutions, MyCareerCloset, and Persist.
- Measurable impact: Improved persistence, completion, career readiness, and student loan repayment outcomes.
What Colleges Receive
- Financial wellness support to help students build money management skills, understand borrowing, and make informed financial decisions.
- Student loan repayment support to help students understand repayment options and navigate next steps after leaving school.
- Career readiness support through tools and services to help students explore pathways, prepare for employment, and build confidence for the transition to work.
- Expanded access to education to help community colleges deliver stronger support for broad student populations and broaden opportunities.
- Data-driven interventions to help colleges identify barriers and implement targeted solutions to keep students on track.
How Elevate Looks at Your School
- No-Cost Access: Institutions can select from a range of student support solutions available through Elevate at no cost.
- Flexible Selection: Institutions can choose any or all of the solutions that best align with their students’ needs, goals, and priorities.
- Tailored Implementation Support: Institutions receive hands-on, end-to-end support to ensure a seamless experience. From initial planning through implementation, our team partners closely with stakeholders at every step, so they are positioned for long-term success.
- Accessible, Plug-and-Play Design: Elevate’s partners were selected for solutions that are highly accessible and designed to integrate smoothly into student support efforts.
How Elevate Strengthens Student Success
- Persistence: Help students stay on track by reducing barriers related to finances, planning, and career preparation.
- Completion: Support student progress toward credentials that lead to meaningful opportunity.
- Career Readiness: Prepare students for employment and next steps with greater confidence and long-term well-being.
- Student Loan Repayment Outcomes: Equip students with information and guidance to better understand repayment responsibilities and options.
Elevate’s Partners and Services
Elevate’s partners and services are hand-selected and available to all participating institutions. The menu of solutions are customizable to best fit the unique needs of each institution.
Acadeum
Course-sharing access that helps students stay on track, complete required courses, and advance toward credentials.
Acadeum
Course-sharing access that helps students stay on track, complete required courses, and advance toward credentials.
- Offers course-sharing and academic recovery networks for timely access to needed courses.
- Focuses on improving retention, degree completion and workforce readiness through industry-recognized credentials.
- Expands curricular flexibility and helps close equity gaps.
Beable
Career-connected literacy and student engagement tools that link reading growth to workforce readiness.
Beable
Career-connected literacy and student engagement tools that link reading growth to workforce readiness.
- Uses AI to pioneer Career-Connected Literacy, linking literacy growth with workforce readiness.
- Provides personalized paths for students to achieve literacy proficiency and employment.
- Enables career exploration at each student’s reading level and in their language.
- Promotes deep engagement and accountability for student success.
Career Fair Navigator
Career exploration and planning tools that help students identify pathways aligned with their goals and interests.
Career Fair Navigator
Career exploration and planning tools that help students identify pathways aligned with their goals and interests.
- Turnkey platform for career readiness, including preparation for career fairs and networking.
- Tools for company research, elevator pitch building and event guidance.
- Networking workflows and relationship tracking.
Application tracker and analytics for post-event management.
ECMC Learning
Financial wellness education that helps students build money management skills and make informed borrowing decisions.
ECMC Learning
Financial wellness education that helps students build money management skills and make informed borrowing decisions.
- Online financial literacy platform with money management tools for students.
- Offers reporting tools for college administrators to measure usage and effectiveness.
ECMC Solutions
Student loan repayment counseling that helps borrowers understand options, avoid delinquency, and navigate repayment.
ECMC Solutions
Student loan repayment counseling that helps borrowers understand options, avoid delinquency, and navigate repayment.
- Provides grace period and student loan repayment counseling.
- Assists institutions with cohort default rate (CDR) management.
MyCareerCloset
Professional clothing support that helps students prepare for interviews, internships, and the workplace.
MyCareerCloset
Professional clothing support that helps students prepare for interviews, internships, and the workplace.
- On-demand professional styling and outfit delivery to students.
- Career readiness events and seminars in partnership with organizations.
- Online resource center with instructional content and AI-powered tools.
- Vouchers are transferable between schools and do not expire.
PERSIST
Professional development supporting educators to improve student retention and completion.
PERSIST
- Offers a free professional development workshop for educators and community partners.
- Focuses on improving college retention and graduation rates.
- Provides strategies to help students—particularly low-income, first-generation and underserved students—stay in school, navigate financial barriers, and succeed.
Why It Matters
ECMC Elevate helps participating community colleges expand opportunity and meet students where they are on their academic journey. At a time when colleges are being asked to do more with fewer resources, the program offers practical, no-cost solutions that can help institutions respond to student needs in ways that strengthen persistence, readiness, and momentum toward completion.