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:
All Our Kin
$150,000 (over two years)
To help create the conditions for family child care to thrive in New York City
The City University of New York Office of Academic Affairs
$125,000
For the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs to help support tutors and staff who participate in CUNY Reading Corps
The Grace Opportunity Project
$150,000 (over two years)
To provide general operating support for its year-round, holistic student and family support programming to help academically young people succeed
Mouse Inc.
$150,000 (over two years)
To support the Design League technology learning program for middle and high schools
The New School/Center for New York City Affairs
$50,000
For the Center for New York City Affairs for Pathways to Educational Equity: Empowering Newly Arrived Migrant Families in Accessing Early Childhood Services
New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute
$125,000
To help support the Early Childhood Leadership Initiative in New York City to provide career and professional development and coaching to early childhood leaders
ParentChild+ Inc. (FKA The Parent-Child Home Program, Inc.)
$165,000 (over two years)
To continue expanding the ParentChild+ One-on-One and Home Based Child Care (HBCC) models for families and child care providers in historically marginalized NYC communities
The Partnership for Inner-City Education
$150,000 (over two years)
To support its High School Readiness programming
Power of Two, a project of Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
$100,000
For Power of Two’s Parent coaching and family support work in Central Brooklyn and the South Bronx
Read Alliance, Inc.
$200,000 (over two years)
For the Read Alliance FY24 and FY25 School Year and Summer Reading Programs
Start Lighthouse
$75,000
To support Literacy Hubs
Teach for America, Inc.
$150,000 (over two years)
To support the recruitment, training, and retention of an expanded Early Childhood teaching corps in New York City
Teaching Matters, Inc.
$100,000
To support Early Learning Matters
Increase access to and success in high-quality post-secondary educational opportunities.
Results Sought:
College Access: Research & Action (CARA)
$200,000 (over two years)
For College Access: Research & Action to support continued innovation and growth of its Peer Leadership for College Access and Success programs
CUNY Office of Enrollment Management
$125,000 (over three years)
For the CUNY Office of Enrollment Management to support the College Completion Innovation Fund's work with current grantees and the FY25 grant cycle
The Eagle Academy Foundation, Inc.
$300,000 (over two years)
To support the Eagles Soaring Beyond (ESB) initiative
East Side House Settlement, Inc.
$50,000
To continue to expand the Post-Secondary Pathways program, including embedding services within high schools
The Fund for Public Schools, Inc.
$200,000
To ensure effective implementation of the Career Navigation Roadmap
Goddard Riverside Community Center
$350,000 (over two years)
To support direct college access and success services, training for college access and success professionals, and research and advocacy to close postsecondary attainment gaps
iMentor
$250,000 (over two years)
To deliver college access and success services to thousands of potential first-generation students from historically marginalized communities across New York City
Marcy Lab, Inc.
$50,000
To promote lifelong economic mobility among underestimated young adults through technology education
National Education Equity Lab, Inc.
$300,000 (over two years)
To expand access to college coursework from top colleges and universities for NYC public high school students
New Visions for Public Schools
$350,000 (over two years)
To promote improved postsecondary outcomes among students from New Visions schools as well as NYC public schools more broadly
NYC Kids RISE, Inc.
$200,000 (over two years)
To help engage NYC public school alumni in contributing to college savings accounts for NYC public school students and related programming
OneGoal
$150,000 (over two years)
To increase postsecondary support for underserved NYC high school students so they enroll and persist in a high-quality postsecondary program of their choice
Summer Search
$80,000 (over two years)
To provide professional, year-round mentoring, summer experiential learning opportunities and post-secondary access and completion services to underserved high school students and post-secondary participants
The Urban Assembly, Inc.
$150,000 (over two years)
For UA's Postsecondary Readiness and Success programming
Young Invincibles
$75,000
To help elevate student voice and address systemic inequities in postsecondary education in New York