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:
Bank Street College of Education
$200,000 (over two years)
To help support the Liberty LEADS college preparation and leadership development program for inner-city youth
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
Breakthrough New York, Inc.
$35,000
To provide general operating support for Breakthrough New York
Bronxworks, Inc.
$25,000
As a final grant to 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
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 Fresh Air Fund, Inc.
$35,000
As a one-time capacity-building grant for the College Connections program for students from underserved communities
Goddard Riverside Community Center
$300,000
Over two years, divided as follows: $125,000 each year for college access services and training; and an additional $50,000 in the first year to update the data systems Options uses for course registration and performance management
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 program and organizational development activities related to program codification, evaluation, and human capital management
iMentor
$75,000
To match the second year of a Social Innovation Fund grant and support expansion of the College Success program in NYC and a six-year independent evaluation of iMentor's impact on college readiness
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 Opportunity Network, Inc. dba The Opportunity Network
$50,000
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
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:
The B.E.L.L. Foundation, Inc.
$300,000 (over two years)
Divided as follows: $100,000 a year to help support BELL Summer in New York City; and $50,000 a year to help support program improvements and capacity building in New York City and provide matching funds for a federal Social Innovation Fund grant for FY13 and FY14
Brooklyn Friends School
$35,000
To help support the Horizons academic enrichment program at Brooklyn Friends School
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
$150,000 (over two years)
To help accelerate the development of literacy and math skills for at-risk preschoolers in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Public Library
$100,000
To help support First Five Years programming, including Weekend Stories; Ready, Play, Grow; and Ready, Set, Kindergarten, a new summertime initiative
East Harlem Tutorial Program, Inc.
$75,000
To help support after school and summer programming for approximately 450 underserved students
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
The Fund for Public Schools, Inc.
$500,000 (over two years)
To help support years two and three of NYC Summer Quest, a three-year multifaceted approach to improving, expanding, and sustaining summer learning opportunities for NYC public school students
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
$112,500 (over 18 months)
To help provide intensive professional development for inner-city Catholic middle- and high-school teachers to improve the teaching of American history
Good Shepherd Services
$125,000
To help support the Groundwork afterschool and summer enrichment program and its full integration into Good Shepherd Service's network of afterschool programs
The Grace Opportunity Project
$75,000
To provide general operating support for the expansion of the GO Project's year-round educational programming for students in grades K-8
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
Inner-City Scholarship Fund, Inc.
$60,000 (over two years)
To help sustain the Library Connections program by supporting cross-curricular projects in alumni schools and convening meetings for school alumni to share best practices and ideas
Madison Square Boys & Girls Club, Inc.
$150,000
To help strengthen the Explorers Academies and to continue to implement at one clubhouse small-group instruction in literacy and math
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.)
$50,000
To help support The Parent-Child Home Program's expansion in New York City and develop and pilot a technology curriculum
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
Teachers College, Columbia University
$160,000 (over two years)
To help increase the number of New York City independent school teachers of color and Catholic school educators in the Klingenstein Center's intensive Two-Summers Master's program, and provide online coaching for program alumni