$220 million
Amount of money raised locally by scholarship funds
Amount of money raised locally by Say Yes local scholarship funds
Each Say Yes partner community raises a scholarship fund locally to send every qualifying public high school graduate, in perpetuity, to an in-state public college or university, tuition-free. As of Spring 2018, Say Yes Syracuse had raised $31 million for its scholarship fund; Say Yes Buffalo, $25 million, toward the ten year goal and $35 million toward the endowment and Say Yes Guilford (Greensboro-High Point), over $42 million -- more than $100 million Say Yes-wide. At the time of Say Yes Cleveland’s launch in January 2019, Cleveland has raised almost $90 million, bringing the total endowment amount to over $220 million.