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
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
$75,000
To help expand the College Success Program to serve 795 New York City youth
Breakthrough New York, Inc.
$35,000
To provide general operating support
Cornelia Connelly Center for Education
$100,000 (over two years)
To help support the Holy Child Middle School for low-income girls
Cristo Rey New York High School
$100,000
To provide general support
Early Steps, Inc.
$35,000
To help increase the number of minority students in independent schools at the primary grade level
The East Harlem School at Exodus House
$150,000 (over two years)
To provide general operating support
Education Clinic, Inc. (aka St. Aloysius Education Clinic)
$30,000
To help support the Clinic's year-round academic enrichment programs for underserved children and youth
Goddard Riverside Community Center
$300,000
To be divided as follows: $125,000 each year for the Options Strategic Plan; and an additional $50,000 to support the evaluation of the Options Institute's NYC Department of Education training project
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
Harlem RBI, Inc. dba DREAM
$150,000 (over two years)
To help support the continued operation and expansion of Harlem RBI's South Bronx site as well as youth retention efforts across all programs
iMentor
$200,000 (over two years)
To match the fourth and fifth year of a Social Innovation Fund grant and help support iMentor's growth in New York City
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
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
The New York-Presbyterian Hospital
$50,000
For a final grant in support of the Lang Youth Medical Program
Storefront Academy Harlem (aka The Children's Storefront)
$50,000
To help support the High School Placement and Alumni Relations Initiative
Student/Sponsor Partnership, Inc.
$50,000
To help support the School Coordinators at SSP partner schools
Summer on the Hill
$40,000
To provide academic enrichment and counseling for promising underserved students from Manhattan and the Bronx
The Urban Dove, Inc.
$50,000
To help support the College All-Stars program
Increase access to and success in high-quality post-secondary educational opportunities.
Results Sought:
The B.E.L.L. Foundation, Inc.
$150,000
To be divided as follows: $100,000 to help support programmatic activities for scholars in BELL Summer in New York City; and $50,000 to help build regional capacity and sustainability
Brooklyn Friends School
$80,000 (over two years)
To be divided as follows: $15,000 each year to help support the Horizons academic enrichment program at Brooklyn Friends School; and $25,000 each year to support capacity building in fundraising
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
$175,000 (over two years)
To be divided as follows: $75,000 each year to help accelerate the development of literacy and math skills for at-risk preschoolers in Brooklyn; and an additional $25,000 in the first year to help support a pilot program with Family Child Care Providers
Brooklyn Public Library
$100,000 (over fifteen months)
To help launch the First Five Years Outreach Initiative
Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
$100,000
To help support the Child Care and Early Education Fund, a collaborative fund dedicated to improving early care and education in New York City
Good Shepherd Services
$100,000
To help support their afterschool and summer programs in East New York and Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and related literacy development programming
The Grace Opportunity Project
$150,000 (over two years)
To provide general operating support for the GO Project's year-round educational programming for students in grades K-8
The Grace Opportunity Project
$30,000 (over eighteen months)
To support an external evaluation
Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center
$50,000
To provide capacity building support to help strengthen the afterschool program
Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, Inc.
$100,000
To help support Explorers Academy afterschool programming and efforts to pilot and refine instructional approaches to preventing summer learning loss
The New School/Center for New York City Affairs
$35,000
To provide capacity building support to develop a database and digital tools to help educate parents about pre-kindergarten educational opportunities in the city
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.)
$85,000
To help support the Parent-Child Home Program in New York City and expand the pilot program with family child care providers to the Bronx
Phipps Neighborhoods, Inc.
$50,000
To help support the Education and Learning Initiative, designed to strengthen academic services across the Youth Services Division, and to extend it to programming for out-of-school youth
Reach Out And Read of Greater New York, Inc.
$75,000 (over two years)
As a final grant 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 to Lead Inc. (FKA Classroom, Inc.)
$75,000
To help support Classroom, Inc.'s school day, afterschool, and summer programming in inner-city Catholic schools and provide a new digital learning program to three schools
Teachers College, Columbia University
$160,000 (over two years)
To help increase the number of New York City independent school teachers of color and inner-city Catholic school educators in the Klingenstein Center's intensive Two-Summers Master's program, and provide online coaching for program alumni