Bedford Hills College Program Endowment Receives Grants from Willis and Nancy King Foundation

The King Foundation grants support the BHCP endowment, which is one of the special initiatives of This is the Day, the Campaign for Marymount Manhattan. To receive The Kresge Foundation’s challenge grant, the College must garner gifts and pledges totaling $25 million by March 31, 2010. To date, the College has raised $22.6 million in gifts and pledges. 

Marymount Manhattan has served as the degree-granting institution for the Bedford Hills College Program since the spring of 1997, and has managed its operations since late 2004. The BHCP offers non-credit college preparatory courses in writing and math, as well as credit-bearing courses leading to Associate of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees, to women incarcerated at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. To date, MMC has conferred more than 110 associate and bachelor’s degrees to BHCP students since the program’s inception. 

“We are very grateful for the generous support we have received from the Willis and Nancy King Foundation for the Bedford Hills College Program endowment and This is the Day,” said Campaign Director Jean Wilhelm, B.A. “These grants enable the College to continue to provide incarcerated women with the opportunity to transform their lives through an MMC education and envision a better future.” 

To learn more about This is the Day, the Campaign for Marymount Manhattan, visit the Web at www.mmm.edu/campaign or contact Jean Wilhelm, campaign director, at (212) 517-0460 or jwilhelm@mmm.edu. 

Marymount Manhattan College is an urban, independent, liberal arts college. The mission of the College is to educate a socially and economically diverse student body by fostering intellectual achievement and personal growth and by providing opportunities for career development.

Published: January 20, 2010