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:
Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, Inc.
$40,000
To help support the Health Science Academy for minority youth and young adults
The Boys' Club of New York
$60,000
To help support the Independent School Placement Program
Bronxworks, Inc.
$40,000
To help support the Center for Achieving Future Education (CAFE) college access program (Formerly Citizens Advice Bureau, Inc.)
The Children's Storefront (aka Storefront Academy Harlem)
$50,000
To help support the High School Placement and Alumni Relations Department
Cornelia Connelly Center for Education
$45,000
To help support the Holy Child Middle School for low-income girls
The Crenulated Company
$50,000
To help support the New Settlement Apartments College Access Center
Cristo Rey New York High School
$100,000
For general support and to help support the creation and implementation of an extended math program for freshmen
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
$300,000 (over three years)
To provide general operating support and to help build a general endowment
The Futures in Education Endowment Fund for Brooklyn and Queens
$1,000,000
To help build a 100 million endowment to provide tuition assistance to the most financially challenged elementary and high school students and improve Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Queens
George Jackson Academy
$100,000
To help support this model school for low-income minority boys
Goddard Riverside Community Center
$100,000
To help support the OPTIONS Center for Educational and Career Choice, including the College Access Professional Development Institute
Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Inc.
$40,000
To help support HEAF's High Expectations Middle School Program
Harlem RBI, Inc. dba DREAM
$200,000 (over two years)
To help support the Team Enrichment Program and for the implementation of the 2007 Strategic Plan
Legal Outreach, Inc.
$125,000
To help support the College Bound program in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens and its expansion into the Bronx
Loyola School
$150,000 (over two years)
To help support the Father Prior Endowed Scholarship Fund
Mount Sinai School of Medicine (aka Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
$75,000
To help support the Early MED-Bound program
The New York Opportunity Network, Inc. dba The Opportunity Network
$30,000
To help provide low-income public-high school students access to career development training, professional networks, and competitive colleges
The Posse Foundation, Inc.
$50,000
To help support the Posse New York Science Posse Program
SCAN-New York Volunteer Parent-Aides Association, Inc.
$40,000
To help support the Reach for the Stars program and college tours
St. Aloysius Education Clinic (aka Education Clinic, Inc.)
$25,000
To help support the Academic Achievement and Cultural Enrichment Program (AACE)
Student/Sponsor Partnership, Inc.
$40,000
To provide support for the Summer Readiness Program and for collecting and using data to improve SSP student outcomes and sponsor participation
The Town School, Inc.
$50,000
To help expand Breakthrough New York's high school program and provide additional support for site expansion
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.
$200,000 (over two years)
To help expand the BELL Summer Learning Initiative in New York City
Brooklyn Friends School
$35,000
To help launch the Horizons at BFS summer academic enrichment program at Brooklyn Friends School
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
$45,000
To help support the Partnership for Literacy Success
Child Care, Inc. dba Center for Children's Initiatives
$50,000
To help support training and consultation to improve the quality of providers serving infants and toddlers
Citizen Schools, Inc.
$200,000 (over two years)
To help launch and operate a network of after school programs in New York City
Claremont Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
$30,000
To help support the After School Education and Young Urban Pioneer programs for underserved youth
East Harlem Tutorial Program, Inc.
$60,000
To provide general operating support to this youth development program
Education Through Music, Inc.
$40,000
To help support music and art education programs in inner-city Catholic schools
Groundwork, Inc.
$100,000
To help support Groundwork for Youth and help create the new position of Director of Staff and Program Development
Inner-City Scholarship Fund, Inc.
$35,000
To help support JOP (the Job Opportunities Program)
Literacy, Inc.
$50,000
To help enhance reading opportunities for children and families in low-income communities in Manhattan and the Bronx and continue implementing an outcome management process
Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, Inc.
$200,000
To refine and improve the Explorers and Juniors Academies
New York Interschool Association, Inc.
$55,000
To help support the Faculty Diversity Search program to recruit and retain minority teachers in independent schools, and to provide a onetime grant for capacity building
Public/Private Ventures
$45,000
To help support the implementation of Youth Education for Tomorrow, a community-based literacy initiative, in New York City
Reach Out And Read of Greater New York, Inc.
$120,000 (over two years)
To build capacity and begin implementing a five-year strategic plan
Read Alliance, Inc.
$100,000
To help strengthen core services and support capacity building efforts for READ's year-round parochial school program and for summer programming open to all students
Read to Lead Inc. (FKA Classroom, Inc.)
$95,500
To help expand Classroom, Inc.'s after school and summer programming in inner-city Archdiocese of New York schools
Saint Ignatius School/New York Nativity
$100,000
To provide capacity building support to build teaching skills in literacy, math, and science and increase student achievement
Teachers College, Columbia University
$200,000 (over two years)
To help increase the number of leaders of color from New York City in The Klingenstein Center's summer intensive master's degree program (Leadership Academy)
United Way of New York City
$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
University Settlement Society of New York
$40,000
To help support the STRIDE Middle School Program at the Houston Street Center