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It spawned dozens of programs, among them the Job Corps, whose purpose was to help disadvantaged youth develop marketable skills ; the Neighborhood Youth Corps, established to give poor urban youths work experience and to encourage them to stay in school ; Volunteers in Service to America ( VISTA ), a domestic version of the Peace Corps, which placed concerned citizens with community-based agencies to work towards empowerment of the poor ; the Model Cities Program for urban redevelopment ; Upward Bound, which assisted poor high school students entering college ; legal services for the poor ; the Food Stamp Act of 1964 ( which expanded the federal food stamp program ); the Community Action Program, which initiated local Community Action Agencies charged with helping the poor become self-sufficient ; and Project Head Start, which offered preschool education for poor children.
The Upward Bound is a high school program for students in low-income areas of the city to receive a high level education from college professors while in high school.
Shriver founded numerous social programs and organizations, including Head Start, VISTA, Job Corps, Community Action, Upward Bound, Foster Grandparents, Legal Services, the National Clearinghouse for Legal Services ( now the Shriver Center ), Indian and Migrant Opportunities and Neighborhood Health Services, in addition to directing the Peace Corps.
Also in the 1960s, students established an Upward Bound program for students from lower-income and poverty areas to prepare for college.
In his early teens, he studied at Upward Bound ( UB ) of the University of Hawaii at Hilo and his family moved to Mākaha.
The Berkeley program served as a model for the federal Upward Bound Program that was founded several years later and for many outreach and special opportunities programs at other U. S. universities.
The goal of Upward Bound is to provide certain categories of high school students better opportunities for attending college.
As federal education grants, Upward Bound awards fall under EDGAR and OMB Circular A-21 financial guidelines.
Upward Bound grants are results-based, with the level of success determined largely from highly-structured annual reports compared to grant objectives.
Notable alumni of the Upward Bound program include Oprah Winfrey, John Quiñones, Angela Bassett, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Jose Hernandez, Donna Brazile, Patrick Ewing, Henry Bonilla, and Viola Davis.
The University features five TRIO programs including Upward Bound, Educational Talent Search, Student Support Services, Educational OSDTpportunity Center, and Upward Bound Math Science.
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