Education and Careers For America - EC4A
Education and Careers for America (EC4A) is a 501 ©(3) nonprofit headquarted in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 2010 with the motto to ‘Serve Where You Live.’ It’s a non-religious and non-political organization.
EC4A has been working with the mission to ‘Bridge Income Disparities through Education’ in multiple cities of the U.S.A. over the last twelve years. We have endeavored on this mission by providing schooling needs and vocational scholarship to the students who are homeless or live below the poverty line.
EC4A’s founder Harish Kotecha was awarded the 2020 Sandra Neese Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY). He also received the USA President’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.
The EC4A family of volunteers and donors live by the motto, ‘Serve Where you Live,’ and return their gratitude by ways of the most powerful tool for long-term success: education.
Impact
The Hindu Charities for America Scholarship was established in 2014 to provide scholarship assistance to students enrolled in an Applied Science program who have over 30 hours of college credit. Below are the results of this great scholarship program:
$237,500 has been awarded in scholarship funds to 279 ACC students
Of those:
24 students have earned a certificate
204 students have earned an associate degree
3 students transferred to a four year university
27 recipients are currently enrolled
“My name is Alexis, and I was fortunate enough to receive the Education and Careers for America Scholarship. I want you to know that this scholarship is providing me with more than money for textbooks and tuition. It’s an opportunity to better myself and my future. Sadly, people that aren’t able to fund their education slip through the cracks and miss out on opportunities, but people like you are helping those of us in need reach horizons we didn’t think were possible. The gift you have given me and so many others is one that I hope to pass on in my future. It inspires me to see others reach out to people in their time of need. Your generosity is truly appreciated and will help me forge my path in becoming the nurse I have always wanted to be. I thank you from the very bottom of my heart (the apex to be exact). Here’s to gratitude, kindness, and a hope for a better tomorrow.” – ACC Nursing Graduate December 2022