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
$50,000
To help support the Tool Kit Licensing Program, Education Coaching Program, Business Development Program, and professional learning offerings
America On Tech, Inc. (FKA New York On Tech)
$50,000
To support AOT’s TECH360 and Tech Flex Leaders Programs designed to deliver out-of-school-time technology education and internships for underserved NYC high school students
Chinese-American Planning Council Inc.
$70,000 (over eighteen months)
To help support early literacy programming and related quality improvement efforts
ExpandEDSchools
$200,000
to help support Youth Empowerment Summer 2020
The Grace Opportunity Project
$75,000
For general support of its year-round holistic student and family support programming to help academically struggling young people succeed
HYPOTHEkids Inc.
$50,000
To provide general operating support for a continuum of hands-on science and engineering educational experiences for underrepresented, low-income, middle school and high school youth
Mouse Inc.
$75,000
To support Mouse's core services for teachers and students in New York City
ParentChild+ Inc. (FKA The Parent-Child Home Program, Inc.)
$200,000 (over two years)
To provide operating support for the national center's work in New York City
Power of Two, a project of Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
$75,000
To provide general operating support for Po2's parent coaching work in Central Brooklyn and the South Bronx
Read Alliance, Inc. (formerly Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation, Inc. dba Read Alliance)
$100,000
To provide general operating support for READ's School Year and Summer Reading Programs
Springboard Collaborative
$75,000
To provide operating support for family engagement and literacy instruction in New York City
Increase access to and success in high-quality post-secondary educational opportunities.
Results Sought:
Barnard College
$50,000 (over sixteen months)
To help support college transition, persistence, and success programming for students with high financial need
The City University of New York, University Advancement, a project of Research Foundation of City University of New York
$150,000 (over nine months)
To help support the CUNY Chancellor's Emergency Relief Fund
iMentor
$250,000 (over two years)
To provide support for programming and operations in New York City
National College Advising Corps Inc.
$150,000
To create postsecondary access and opportunity for low-income, first generation, underrepresented students of New York City
New Visions for Public Schools
$350,000 (over two years)
To support the further development of an integrated college and career postsecondary advising model
OneGoal
$75,000
To provide support for programming and operations in New York City
Student/Sponsor Partnership, Inc.
$50,000
To support the College and Career program
Summer Search Foundation
$50,000 (over nine months)
To support the successful integration of peer group mentoring into the Summer Search high school program model
uAspire (previously known as ACCESS)
$75,000
To support uAspire's virtual college affordability advising of approximately 4,300 first, second and third year postsecondary students in New York in partnership with CollegeBound Initiative and Double Discovery Center
Urban Assembly Inc.
$75,000
To address ‘Summer Melt’, college matriculation and college persistence among Urban Assembly high school graduates