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:

  1. Significantly improve the social, emotional, and cognitive development of young children
  2. Measurably improve the academic performance of disadvantaged students
  3. Significantly improve students’ ability to learn, work, and thrive in a digital society
  4. Demonstrably improve the effectiveness of leadership, faculty, and staff
Grants 2011

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

The Boys' Club of New York
$120,000 (over two years)
To help support the Independent School Placement Program

Breakthrough New York, Inc.
$35,000
To provide general operating support for Breakthrough New York

Bronxworks, Inc.
$30,000
To help support the Center for Achieving Future Education college access program

The Children's Storefront (aka Storefront Academy Harlem)
$50,000
To help support the High School Placement and Alumni Relations Initiative

College Summit, Inc.
$100,000
To be used over eighteen months to support its college access programs in New York City

Cornelia Connelly Center for Education
$45,000
To help support the Holy Child Middle School for low-income girls

Cristo Rey New York High School
$100,000
To provide general support

De La Salle Academy
$25,000
For a special, one-time-only contribution, in memory of John P. Casey, to provide expendable scholarships for promising young men from low-income backgrounds

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
$275,000 (over three years)
To provide general operating support and help with the design and execution of a professional development and retention strategy for faculty

The Fund for Public Schools, Inc.
$200,000
To help support Year One of the NYC Summer Learning Initiative

George Jackson Academy
$200,000 (over two years)
To renew general support for this model school for minority boys

Harlem Academy
$100,000 (over two years)
To provide general support for this academically rigorous independent elementary school.

Harlem Educational Activities Fund, Inc.
$40,000
To help support HEAF's High Expectations Middle School Program

Hunts Point Alliance for Children
$50,000
To help support HPAC's Career and Education Mentoring Program

iMentor
$50,000
To provide matching funds for a federal Social Innovation Fund grant and support the expansion of the College Success Program in New York City

Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan (formerly The Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged)
$50,000
To help support the Geriatric Career Development Youth Workforce Program

Legal Outreach, Inc.
$200,000 (over two years)
To help support the College Bound Program

The Manhattan Country School, Inc.
$100,000 (over two years)
To help support capacity-building efforts

The New York Opportunity Network, Inc. dba The Opportunity Network
$35,000
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 Science Posse Program

Prep for Prep
$50,000
As a final grant to help support year three of Prep's conversion to and implementation of an updated organization-wide database

St. Aloysius Education Clinic (aka Education Clinic, Inc.)
$30,000
To help support the Academic Achievement and Cultural Enrichment Program (AACE) for academically promising inner-city children

Student/Sponsor Partnership, Inc.
$50,000
To help support the School Coordinator Stipend Initiative

Summer on the Hill
$35,000
To help 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:

  1. Significantly improve the social-emotional capacities of youth essential to college and career success
  2. Increase the number of underserved students enrolled in and completing college
  3. Increase the number of underserved students enrolled in and completing other high-quality post-secondary training and credentialing programs
Grants 2011

Brooklyn Friends School
$35,000
To help support the Horizons academic enrichment program at Brooklyn Friends School

Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
$50,000
To support accelerating the development of literacy and math skills for at-risk preschoolers in Brooklyn

Brooklyn Public Library
$100,000
To sustain the expansion of First Five Years programming by presenting a third year of Weekend Stories and a second year of Read, Play, Grow

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.
$60,000
To support after school and summer programming for approximately 300 underserved students

Groundwork, Inc.
$100,000
To help support Groundwork for Youth

Inner-City Scholarship Fund, Inc.
$35,000
To renew support for JOP (the Job Opportunities Program), 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

New York Interschool Association, Inc.
$30,000 (over two years)
To help initiate a philanthropy education program for select New York City independent, charter and inner-city Catholic schools

New York Interschool Association, Inc.
$45000
To help support the Faculty Diversity Search program to recruit and retain minority teachers in independent schools

Notre Dame School of Manhattan
$75,000 (over two years)
To help fund the position of Coordinator of Alumnae Relations and Special Events

ParentChild+ Inc. (FKA The Parent-Child Home Program, Inc.)
$50,000
To help support The Parent-Child Home Program's expansion in New York City

The Partnership for Inner-City Education
$45,000
To help sustain the Library Connections program by supporting cross-curricular projects in alumni schools and convening meetings for alumni teachers to share best practices and ideas.

Reach Out And Read of Greater New York, Inc.
$50,000
To help provide New York City children and families with pediatric literacy counseling and support

Read Alliance, Inc. (formerly Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation, Inc. dba Read Alliance)
$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 Archdiocese of New York schools

St. Aloysius School
$50,000
For capacity-building support to strengthen the communications and fundraising infrastructure of this newly reconfigured Jesuit-sponsored independent school for inner-city elementary and middle school children

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

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