PAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
Creating heroes through education and service by encouraging Minnesota students of color to pursue post-secondary education.
About This Cause
Education gives people the power of choice. The power of choice is the power of liberty. Recognizing that disparities in academic opportunity deny children of color both choice and liberty, Diane and Alan Page started the Page Education Foundation in 1988. The Foundation's goal is to encourage, motivate, and assist Minnesota's students of color in the pursuit of post-secondary education, and, in the process, change the future. The Foundation achieves that goal by doing two things. First, by providing financial assistance to students pursuing post-secondary education. Second, and most important, by requiring its Page Scholars to work with young children, kindergarten through eighth grade, specifically in the area of education. By having this requirement, everybody wins-our scholars, the young children they mentor, and the community at large. Our Scholars send the clear, strong message to those young children by word and by deed that education is a tool that can be used to achieve one's dreams. And the children see someone who maybe looks like them, who may have some shared experiences, who is reliable, who works hard, and who takes an interest in their well-being, using education as a tool for success. The first year the Foundation had 10 Page Scholars; now we have more than 500 annually. Since then, the Foundation has awarded over $16 million in grants to more than 8,000 Page Scholars. Those Page Scholars have volunteered nearly 500,000 hours, working with 50,000 children across Minnesota. In the end, our Scholars are bending the moral arc of the universe towards justice. Alan, with careers as a Hall of Fame football player and a Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, is the face of the Foundation, but Diane was its heart and soul, serving as its executive director for 30 years. Diane died of cancer in September 2018, but her vision and commitment to racial, social, and economic justice continue through the Foundation's work. To recognize her critical role in starting and growing the Foundation, it has been formally renamed The Page Education Foundation Founded by Diane and Alan Page.