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The Jackie Robinson Foundation
| About the Jackie Robinson Foundation
Established by Rachel Robinson in 1973, the Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) provides four-year college scholarships to minority students who demonstrate academic distinction, leadership capacity and financial need. In addition to financial assistance, the Foundation equips its scholarship recipients with a comprehensive set of support services including extensive mentoring, career guidance and practical life skills. JRF Scholars are required to participate in community service as part of their scholarship. Each Scholar must document these projects and keep them on file with JRF. The goal of the Jackie Robinson Foundation is to create successful college graduates and mold future leaders who will carry on Jackie Robinson’s values and ideals. The result is a 97% graduation rate, more than twice the national average for minority students. JRF’s innovative approach has rapidly become a national paradigm in minority higher education intervention. |
Jackie Robinson Foundation by the numbers
Jackie Robinson Foundation alumni
About the Rachel Robinson International Fellowship (RRIF)
About the Jackie Robinson “Extra Innings” program
Jackie Robinson Foundation by the numbers
- JRF has maintained a 97% graduation rate – twice the national average for minority students
- This year the Foundation is supporting 279 students
- Scholars are attending 106 colleges and universities and hail from 34 states
- This year’s entering class has 83 freshmen – the largest in the Foundation’s history
- JRF has over 1,200 alumni who are leaders in their professional lives and ambassadors of Jackie Robinson’s legacy of public service
- JRF has awarded over $18 million in direct scholarship assistance
Jackie Robinson Foundation alumni
JRF alumni are both leaders in their professional fields and consummate ambassadors of Jackie Robinson’s legacy of public service.
Whether it is earning a partnership at a leading Wall Street institution, hosting golf clinics for disadvantaged youth, performing innovative research on the AIDS epidemic or starting a non-profit to bring classical music to elementary school classrooms, Jackie Robinson Foundation Alumni are distinguishing themselves across multiple dimensions of society.
Many JRF Alumni go on to mentor current JRF Scholars—keeping the relationship with the Foundation for life.
About the Rachel Robinson International Fellowship (RRIF)
The Rachel Robinson International Fellowship (RRIF) was launched in 2008 to support international internship, volunteer and study opportunities for JRF Scholars.
A generous inaugural grant from the Sheila C. Johnson Foundation enabled JRF to launch the program and establish a partnership with the international humanitarian organization CARE. Recently, four JRF Scholars returned from a summer of public service work and study in Ghana and Mozambique.
About the Jackie Robinson “Extra Innings” program
The Jackie Robinson Foundation’s “Extra Innings” program was established in 2006 by a grant from the Windmill Foundation, a long time supporter of JRF, to help JRF Scholars with the cost of advanced professional or graduate training. Up to $10,000 per year for up to four years is awarded for graduate study to qualified JRF Scholars.
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