The Aetna foundation funds projects that improve the success of at-risk students by making higher education more accessible, promoting reform in urban school districts and raising students' academic aspirations. Aetna prefers projects that ease the transition between middle and high schools and postsecondary education for at-risk students.
Quarterly meetings review large grant requests.
Nonprofit agencies, including school districts and schools. Aetna gives priority to groups in the Hartford, Conn., area and makes regional grants through a network of 15 focus regions representing all 50 states, and to organizations that can influence, local, state or federal policies and programs.