Given that high-quality education is a key driver of social and economic mobility and essential to equitable opportunity for all, the Foundation invests in organizations, programs, and projects that achieve results aligned with the two objectives outlined below. We give priority to initiatives in our areas of interest that expand or enhance multiple programs or schools across a system or network. As a general rule, we do not provide support for individual early childhood programs, or individual district schools, charter schools, public universities, or private colleges/universities. Please note that the "Results Sought" reflect the specific outcomes of interest to us.
Provide disadvantaged children and youth with more high-quality learning time through early childhood education and afterschool, summer, and expanded learning programs.
Results Sought:
Barnard College
$50,000 (over fourteen months)
To help support the academic success and persistence of students from underserved communities at particularly vulnerable stages in the academic pipeline and in fields in which they are traditionally underrepresented
Bottom Line
$50,000
To provide support for expanding the College Success Program for New York City youth
The Boys' Club of New York
$120,000 (over two years)
To help support the Independent School Placement Program
Breakthrough New York, Inc.
$50,000
Divided as follows: $35,000 to help support Breakthrough New York's college access programming and $15,000 to help support strategic planning
The Children's Storefront (aka Storefront Academy Harlem)
$50,000
To help support the High School Placement and Alumni Relations Initiative
Cristo Rey New York High School
$100,000
To provide general support
De La Salle Academy
$150,000 (over three years)
To provide an administrative capacity building grant as the school moves to a new home
Early Steps, Inc.
$35,000
To help increase the number of minority students in independent schools at the primary grade level
The Fresh Air Fund, Inc.
$35,000
As a final grant to help support the College Connections program
George Jackson Academy
$180,000 (over two years)
To renew general support for this model school for minority boys
Harlem Academy
$120,000 (over two years)
To provide general support for this academically rigorous independent school
Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Inc.
$40,000
To help support HEAF's continuum of out-of-school-time educational and youth development programs for high-potential, underserved students beginning in middle school through to completion of college
iMentor
$100,000
To match the third year of a Social Innovation Fund grant and support the continued expansion of the College Transition program (formerly College Success) in NYC and a six-year independent evaluation of iMentor's impact on college readiness
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan (formerly The Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged)
$60,000
To help support the Geriatric Career Development program for at-risk high-school youth
Legal Outreach, Inc.
$200,000 (over two years)
To help support the College Bound Program
The New York Opportunity Network, Inc. dba The Opportunity Network
$120,000 (over two years)
To help provide low-income public high school students access to career development training, professional networks, and competitive colleges
The New York-Presbyterian Hospital
$50,000
To help support the Lang Youth Medical Program
The Posse Foundation, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To help support the Posse New York STEM Posse Program
Prep for Prep
$175,000 (over two years)
To help build the capacity of Prep's Alumni Affairs office to serve and draw upon the growing body of Prep graduates
Regis High School
$50,000
As a final grant to help support REACH's comprehensive recruiting and admissions program
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, Inc.
$325,000 (over three years)
To help support SEO's OpportunityX2 initiative
St. Aloysius Education Clinic (aka Education Clinic, Inc.)
$30,000
To help support the Clinic's year-round academic enrichment programs for underserved children and youth
Student/Sponsor Partnership, Inc.
$50,000
To help support the School Coordinators at SSP partner schools
Summer on the Hill
$35,000
To provide academic enrichment and counseling for promising underserved students from Manhattan and the Bronx
The Urban Dove, Inc.
$50,000
To renew support for the College All-Stars program
Increase access to and success in high-quality post-secondary educational opportunities.
Results Sought:
Brooklyn Friends School
$35,000
To help support the Horizons academic enrichment program at Brooklyn Friends School
Brooklyn Public Library
$100,000
To help support the First Five Years early literacy program and specifically Ready, Set, Kindergarten
Citizen Schools, Inc.
$200,000 (over two years)
To help support a network of afterschool programs in New York City
East Harlem Tutorial Program, Inc.
$170,000 (over two years)
To provide general support for EHTP's continuum of out-of-school time and college success programming for underserved children and youth
Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
$100000
To help support the Child Care and Early Education Fund, a collaborative fund dedicated to improving early care and education in New York City
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
$125,000 (over two years)
To help provide intensive professional development for inner-city Catholic middle- and high-school teachers through the Teaching Literacy Through History program
Good Shepherd Services
$125,000
To be used over seventeen months to help support their afterschool and summer programs in East New York and Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
The Grace Opportunity Project
$75,000
To provide general operating support for the GO Project's year-round educational programming for students in grades K-8
Inner-City Scholarship Fund, Inc.
$35,000
To help support the Job Opportunities Program (JOP) which provides job-readiness workshops, college-preparation mentorships, and summer internships for highly motivated low-income high school juniors and seniors from inner-city Catholic high schools
Learning Leaders, Inc.
$25,000
To help support Phase II of the capacity building project to develop and implement monitoring and evaluation metrics to improve program planning, delivery, and results
Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center
$50,000
To provide capacity building support to help strengthen the after school program
Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, Inc.
$150,000
To help strengthen the Explorers Academies and to continue to implement at one clubhouse summer small-group instruction in literacy and math
New York Interschool Association, Inc.
$45,000
To help support the Faculty Diversity Search program to recruit and retain minority teachers in independent schools
ParentChild+ Inc. (FKA The Parent-Child Home Program, Inc.)
$65,000
To help support The Parent-Child Home Program in New York City and pilot the program with family child care providers
Reach Out And Read of Greater New York, Inc.
$50,000
To provide general support for this early literacy program
Read Alliance, Inc.
$100,000
To provide general support for Read's early literacy work in New York City
Read Alliance, Inc.
$30,000 (over eighteen months)
To provide capacity building support for board training and development and securing a full-time development director
Read to Lead Inc. (FKA Classroom, Inc.)
$85,000
To help support Classroom, Inc.'s school day, afterschool, and summer programming in six inner-city Archdiocese of New York schools and to strengthen the assessment and documentation of program impact