How this federally funded education program serves as a blueprint for the rest of rural America

Today, Partners for Rural Impact’s budget is around $78.2 million, with 78% coming from the government.

In 2010, Dreama Gentry met Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, a much-lauded nonprofit that supports youth from birth through college in a roughly 100-block area of central Harlem. The program was an inspiration for Gentry, who had launched a college-access program in rural eastern Kentucky about a decade earlier.