Pipeline Crisis/Winning Strategies

Mission Statement

Supporters of the Pipeline Crisis initiative are committed to pooling our talents, knowledge and resources to help reverse the rising rates of school drop outs, joblessness and incarceration among young black men, and to increase their representation in the pipeline to higher education. Over the last decade the enrollment of young black men in U.S. colleges and graduate schools has dramatically ebbed, with record numbers going to prison, dropping out of school and facing urban unemployment rates approaching 50%. We offer this website as a portal to bring together like-minded individuals and organizations to address the stark social, economic and educational reality confronting young black men.

July 25, 2008

Schott Foundation releases: Given Half a Chance: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education for Black Males.