Higher Education

More and more, well-paying and family-sustaining jobs require higher education – schooling or training that goes beyond a high school diploma. Whether it is attained in a traditional college setting, mid-career, or later in life, higher education is important and will become more essential to an individual’s personal growth and our nation’s economic achievement. Simply put, education is the social and economic justice issue of our day.

Douglas Gould and Company has worked with colleges and universities, nonprofit education organizations, and foundations dedicated to building a better-educated population. We know that education goes beyond book learning and requires political will on all levels of government in order to be successful. Clients have hired us to create messages, build websites, and craft communications plans that advocate for higher education.

Recent Clients

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

The Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) manages Washington’s public system of 34 community and technical colleges. The State Board is a national leader for excellence and innovation in two-year colleges, adult education and workforce development. DG&Co. has a long collaborative history with the State Board, dating back to its work with the Ford Foundation’s Bridges to Opportunity Initiative.

The Rappaport Family Foundation

The Rappaport Family Foundation develops and supports innovative ways to engage and support California’s community college students in progressive civic engagement activities.

Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS)

The Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS) serves as the management board for Louisiana's public 2-year institutions, working to improve the quality of life of the state's citizens through educational programs offered through the community and technical colleges.

CLASP

On the local, state, and national level, The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) develops, provides research for, and actively promotes policies that improve the lives of low-income people. As part of their work on postsecondary and economic success, CLASP is launching a national effort called Alliance for Quality Career Pathways.

California Competes

California Competes is a project sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc. that develops non-partisan and financially pragmatic recommendations to improve policies and practices in California higher education. As California Competes was set to promote key education and policy reforms, DG&Co. conducted a series of activities to capture early findings that would inform an advocacy and communications strategy to support the work.

Ohio Board of Regents

Ohio faces serious challenges to increase the number of Ohioans that earn a college degree and help prepare potential employees for the workforce demands of Ohio’s knowledge economy. We’ve been working with community colleges in Ohio since 2004 with the Ford Foundation’s Bridges to Opportunity Initiative. Today, we are proud to serve the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR), the state agency that coordinates higher education through the University System of Ohio, which includes adult basic literacy and workforce education.

Points of Entry: Guiding Adults to Education and Career Success

The Points of Entry project, funded by the Open Society Foundations, aims to promote the development of career pathways and transition programs for low-skilled adults and prisoners in re-entry. The initiative works with eight sites in Alabama, California, New York and Massachusetts.

The New Jersey Council of County Colleges (NJCCC)

The New Jersey Council of County Colleges is a not-for-profit organization that provides statewide leadership for the advancement of New Jersey’s 19 community colleges. A state nationally recognized for its strong K-12 system, New Jersey’s community colleges provide educational and economic opportunity to more than 400,000 students.

Literacy Information and Communications Systems

Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) is a national professional development system spearheaded by the Department of Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education. LINCS serves the diverse field of adult education by guiding practitioners and other interested stakeholders to high-quality resources.

Accelerating Opportunity

Accelerating Opportunity: A Breaking Through Initiative is a multi-state collaboration that seeks to reform adult basic education in the United States. Through an innovative combination of basic skills and occupational training, it is giving adult learners the skills they need to secure family-sustaining employment. The initiative is supported by ground-breaking coalition of funders including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Kresge Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.

The National Center for Business Champions

Business Champions is a network of organizations and business leaders from around the country. Based in Denver, its mission is to mobilize business leaders to shape new policies and strengthen systems that will enable more Americans to earn postsecondary credentials.

The James Irvine Foundation

The mission of the James Irvine Foundation is to expand opportunity for the people of California to participate in a vibrant, successful and inclusive society. Established in 1937, the Foundation has provided more than $1 billion in grants to over 3,000 nonprofit organizations across the state.

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law is a private law school in Sacramento, CA. Founded in 1924, Pacific McGeorge educates lawyers for large and small law firms, government agencies and corporate legal departments in California, across the United States and around the world.