The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has recently awarded Project MALES a $50,000 grant for its male mentoring initiatives. The grant will provide support for the Project MALES Student Fellows Mentoring Program in the 2012-13 academic year, and it will allow Project MALES to expand the number of fellows and extend mentoring to a second high school in the Austin Independent School District. In partnership with the X-Y Zone program of Communities in Schools, the mentoring program seeks to create a critical mass of young, engaged, and civic-minded Latino male students to positively affect their academic success and college readiness through mentoring bonds across multiple generations.
