Vision

NCRF’s vision is to close the gap in educational achievement, workforce, and economic disparities. ● NCRF’s College Access activities empower students to seek higher education and increases graduation rates and college matriculation rates which help close educational gaps ● NCRF’s Internships & Careers Program prepares students for the workforce and Entrepreneurial Academy helps create and grow businesses in underserved communities ● TMEP confronts the disparities in the education system providing intervention, mentoring, tutoring, and college and career planning. ● STEAM provides students with instruction in 20+ STEAM curricula, such as coding, programming, and 3D printing to stimulate learning and critical thinking. ● NCRF’s Student Athlete Program engages, educates and empowers student athletes to understand the importance of education and helping them become true STUDENT-athletes NCRF is focused on improving educational outcomes and expanding workforce opportunities.

Goals

1. 1.We want to GROW in helping more students, especially underserved, underrepresented, at risk, low resource, homeless and foster students. We are creating an ecosystem to end poverty cycles.
2. 2.We want to grow our offering of our Dual Enrollment Program. This saves families money for college tuition and it saves students time, while helping them be more successful in college and at the same time our Dual Enrollment increases "college going", college retention, and college matriculation.
3. 3.We believe that every student must be trained and skilled to break poverty cycles to take care of themselves and provide for their families. We want to increase the number of students not only with degrees but with certifications too! We want to expand our FREE vocational courses, such as medical terminology, and offer more vocational courses in fields cybersecurity., anatomy, tech courses.