The Crosby Scholars Community Partnership

Name

The Crosby Scholars Community Partnership

Legal name

Crosby Scholars Community Partnership

Website

https://crosbyscholars.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

College Access Programs

NAICS

Educational Support Services (6117), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Educational Services (61)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

College Access, Scholarships & Student Success Nonprofits (BPAGADAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Scholarship & Fellowship Foundations and Trusts (EDADAHAC), After-School, Tutoring & Academic Enrichment Nonprofits (BPAGADAC)

Keywords

• College access programs
• College preparation services
• Scholarship funding programs
• Youth education nonprofits
• Academic advising services

Headquarters

HQ city

Winston Salem

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: As a nonprofit organization, Crosby Scholars Community Partnership is funded entirely through donations, grants, and fundraising events. The organization awards scholarships and Last Dollar Grants to students at no cost, funded by charitable contributions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Founded in 1992, The Crosby Scholars Community Partnership delivers a free, year-round college preparation program to middle and high school students in Forsyth County, North Carolina, with expansion into Rowan and Iredell Counties. The organization pairs students with advising, workshops, college visits, and family engagement, and annually awards more than $980,000 in scholarships and Last Dollar Grants.

Product overview

The Crosby Scholars Community Partnership operates a multi-tiered college access program serving over 11,000 students annually across Forsyth County public schools. The core offering is the Crosby Scholars Program, structured into grade-appropriate components: Middle School Program (grades 6-8), High School Program (grades 9-10), and Junior/Senior Program (grades 11-12). Students access services through the CrosbyConnect Student Portal, which manages workshop registrations, scholarship applications, and academic progress tracking. The program provides need-based Last Dollar Grants exceeding $900,000 annually, along with Crosby Scholars Academy workshops, community service requirements, and ongoing college alumni support. All services are provided at no cost to students and families.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CrosbyConnect: Student portal platform for managing program requirements, registration, and scholarship applications
• Last Dollar Grant
• Crosby Scholars Academy

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 11,000 students served annually with college and career preparation services
• +2 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Forsyth County Public SchoolscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCrosby Scholars partners with all Forsyth County public schools to deliver college preparation programs to students. Students from any Forsyth County public school or partnering charter school can join the program.
• Forsyth County Public LibraryminorOthersReferenced as a resource partner for middle school students, offering teen programs alongside Crosby Scholars enrichment activities.
• Forsyth Tech (College Lift)minorOthersCollege Lift program partnership providing dual enrollment opportunities for Crosby Scholars students.
• LEAD GirlscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCrosby Scholars has partnered with LEAD Girls to create additional leadership opportunities for girls in Forsyth County. This collaboration provides enrichment programming for female students.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• KIPP Foundation: KIPP is a national network of public charter schools serving educationally under-resourced communities, with a strong college completion program embedded in its K-12 model. It is a broader incumbent in the college access space and serves a comparable student demographic with a free, comprehensive program structure.
• National College Attainment Network (NCAN): NCAN is the national membership and advocacy organization supporting the college access and success field, representing many programs operating at the same level as Crosby Scholars. It is an adjacent incumbent that shapes policy, training, and data infrastructure for the segment in which Crosby Scholars operates.
• United Negro College Fund (UNCF): UNCF is one of the nation's largest minority education nonprofits, administering scholarships, administering programs such as the UNCF Scholars Program, and supporting member institutions. Comparable to Crosby Scholars' scholarship-awarding function at much larger national scale, serving a partly overlapping student demographic.

Direct peers

• uAspire: uAspire is a national nonprofit focused specifically on college affordability, providing financial aid advising, scholarship sourcing, and matched grant programs to low-income students. Comparable to Crosby Scholars' Last Dollar Grant program and financial-aid advising, with similar free, school-partner-channel delivery.
• College Advising Corps: College Advising Corps places recent college graduates as near-peer advisers in underserved high schools to help students navigate college admissions and financial aid. It is the most direct comparably structured college access nonprofit to Crosby Scholars, particularly given overlapping school-partnership-driven GTM and free-to-student delivery.
• College Possible: College Possible is a national nonprofit that delivers intensive college access coaching and AmeriCorps-powered advising to high school students from low-income backgrounds. Its free, cohort-based program structure and curriculum of workshops, application support, and college persistence services directly mirror the Crosby Scholars pipeline model.
• Bottom Line: Bottom Line is a nonprofit college access and persistence organization that provides one-on-one advising and post-secondary success support to students from under-resourced communities. Like Crosby Scholars, it combines sustained advising with direct support toward college enrollment and persistence, operating a free, cohort-based model for first-generation college students.

Regional players

• Catch the Next (formerly Accelerated Studies for Adults): Catch the Next partners with community colleges to support under-prepared adults and developmental education students. While focused on adult learners rather than K-12, it operates in a similar college access/affordability niche via community-college partnerships and is a comparable regional nonprofit in the same broad space.
• College Foundation of North Carolina (CFNC): CFNC is the State of North Carolina's official college planning and resource portal providing admissions, financial aid, and scholarship information to North Carolina students. It is a functionally comparable state-level college access provider operating in the same geographic and demographic footprint as Crosby Scholars.

Emerging players

• ScholarMatch: ScholarMatch is a nonprofit that supports low-income students with college advising, scholarships, and a donor-funded match grant program. Its combination of advising plus donor-funded scholarships makes it a close functional comparison to Crosby Scholars' advising-plus-Last-Dollar-Grant model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CrosbyScholars
• Facebookfacebook.com/CrosbyScholars
• Instagraminstagram.com/crosbyscholars

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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Investments

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