Giving Back to the Community

Higher One encourages employees to be civically engaged.  Here are some examples of ways in which our employees are involved in their local community.

Located in New Haven, Connecticut, Higher One’s employees are involved in a wide array of local nonprofits:

• New Haven Airport Authority
• New Haven Port Authority
• Yale Advisory Committee on Investor Social Responsibility
• Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program
• Cluefest
• The Group With No Name - Promotes civic engagement
• Habitat for Humanity
• Delta Chi Alumni Board of Trustees, Bryant University Chapter
• New Haven Economic Development Commission
• Regional Growth partnership for South Eastern Connecticut
• Fundraiser for the Connecticut Special Olympics through the Penguin Plunge
• Rotary Club of West Haven
• West Haven Child Development Center
• Women's Designers Group
• Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Team in Training
• Solar Youth, Inc.
• Connecticut Chapter of Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation
• The Connecticut Sun Foundation
• Beautiful Lengths
• American Diabetes Association
• Girl Scouts
• Greater New Haven St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee (Associated Irish Societies, Inc.)
• Knights of St. Patrick
• Irish American Community Center
• New Haven Gaelic Football & Hurling Club

Higher One prides itself on working with students to support a variety of student organizations and events. The Higher One Student Fund was created to raise funds for this very purpose.

In the marketplace today, colleges and universities are under a tremendous amount of pressure to keep tuition affordable while at the same time facing significant reductions to their funding on both the state and federal levels. Higher One’s services were created to help these institutions avoid the substantial costs associated with various processes in the business office. Recently the State University of New York System awarded SUNY Oswego with a Best Practice for implementing Higher One’s Refund Management® service and reporting $45,000 of cost avoidance in the program’s first year.

Higher One’s mission is to help institutions keep tuition costs down for students. For some of our earlier clients, this meant sharing with them a small portion of revenue the campus produced so the institution could help pay for the cost of the service. Today we do this by helping colleges and universities experience cost avoidance to achieve the goal of a cost neutral service for the institution.

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