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 (over fifteen months)
To expand All Our Kin's proven model for raising the quality, availability, and sustainability of family child care in New York City
America On Tech, Inc. (FKA New York On Tech)
$35,000
To help support out-of-school time technology education programs for underserved students
The Art of Problem Solving Foundation
$65,000
To support the expansion of Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics programming growth in New York City
Brooklyn Kindergarten Society
$75,000
To provide early education and learning activities to more than 400 children in Brooklyn's vulnerable neighborhoods and professional development to staff
The Eagle Academy Foundation, Inc.
$75,000
To support extended learning and college readiness programming for 9th graders through the Reaching Young Men through Supplemental Education (RYSE) program
Entrepreneurial Ventures in Education (dba Summer Advantage USA)
$50,000
To provide support for a free, high-quality summer learning experience for children who attend New York City public schools in Brooklyn and Queens
ExpandEDSchools
$60,000
To expand, refine, and continue to evaluate Rising Readers, a 4th- and 5th-grade afterschool and expanded-learning literacy intervention
The Fund for Public Schools, Inc.
$78,000
To support the continued expansion and evaluation of NYC Pre-K Explore, a comprehensive, two-year professional learning track with specialized training for teachers and site leaders to implement a research-based curriculum
Good Shepherd Services
$175,000 (over two years)
To help support a cluster of afterschool programs in East New York and Bedford-Stuyvesant
The Grace Opportunity Project
$75,000
To provide general operating support for the GO Project's year-round educational programming for academically struggling public school students in grades K-8
Jewish Home Lifecare Manhattan (formerly The Jewish Home and Hospital for Aged)
$60,000
To support the Geriatric Career Development Program for under-served NYC youth
Legal Outreach, Inc.
$125,000 (over two years)
To support the Summer Law Institute and College Bound Program, with the aim of preparing under-served NYC youth for college access and success by fostering vision, strengthening academic skills, and enhancing confidence
Mouse Inc.
$50,000 (over fifteen months)
To help support the merger of Mouse and Code/Interactive
The New York Community Trust (Early Childhood Partners NYC)
$100,000
To support Early Childhood Partners NYC, a collaborative funding network dedicated to ensuring that all NYC children enter kindergarten prepared for lifelong success
New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute
$100,000
To help support the Early Childhood Leadership Initiative to provide career support and professional development to early childhood program leaders and directors in New York City
ParentChild+ Inc. (FKA The Parent-Child Home Program, Inc.)
$200,000 (over two years)
To support further growth, assessment, and improvement of the Family Child Care program in NYC, and a new partnership with the Public Prep charter network to extend PCHP's one-on-one home visiting model to Public Prep families
Power of Two, a project of Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
$75,000
To provide general operating support for Power of Two to serve infants and toddlers and their primary caregivers through a short-term, evidence-based home visiting program, Attachment and Bio-behavioral Catch-Up (ABC)
Read Alliance, Inc. (formerly Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation, Inc. dba Read Alliance)
$100,000
To support the Read Alliance FY 18 School Year and Summer Reading Programs
Read to Lead Inc. (FKA Classroom, Inc.)
$65,000
To increase Classroom, Inc.'s impact in New York City by creating a professional learning community with Catholic partner schools and by expanding the use of its products in summer and afterschool programs
ScriptEd (dba Code Nation)
$75,000
To support ScriptEd’s New York City-based pipeline of programming
Springboard Collaborative
$75,000
To support the growth of Springboard Summer in New York City
Summer on the Hill
$50,000
To provide high-quality academic enrichment and guidance on school choices to high-achieving, low-income public school students in grades 3 - 12 from the Bronx and Upper Manhattan
Increase access to and success in high-quality post-secondary educational opportunities.
Results Sought:
Barnard College
$50,000
To strengthen and extend programs serving disadvantaged students and help support the academic success and persistence of these students at particularly vulnerable stages in the academic pipeline
The Boys' Club of New York
$25,000
To fund professional development that supports the creation of a college-going culture within the Boys’ Club of New York
Cornelia Connelly Center for Education
$50,000
To provide general operating support for the Cornelia Connelly Center middle school and graduate support services
Cristo Rey New York High School
$140,000 (over two years)
To provide general support
East Side House Settlement, Inc.
$75,000
To help support the Post-Secondary Pathways (PSP) program as it expands to serve more students and facilitate the transition of participants from training and certification into the workforce
Fund for the City of New York, Inc.
$85,000
To help support Student Success Network, a Partner Project of the Fund for the City of New York
Goddard Riverside Community Center
$300,000 (over two years)
To be divided as follows: $125,000 each year to support direct counseling services and professional development for counselors; and an additional one-time contribution of $50,000 in the first year to support the development of a data framework and pilot a Data Coop of nonprofits working in the college access and success field
Graduate NYC!
$125,000 (over three years)
To support the College Completion Innovation Fund's 2019 Grantmaking Cycle
iMentor
$200,000 (over two years)
To continue to strengthen the iMentor program in New York City
Inner-City Scholarship Fund, Inc.
$30,000
To help support the Job Opportunities Program and begin to prepare students for post-secondary success
National College Advising Corps Inc.
$125,000
To help support the CAC's expansion in New York City
OneGoal
$75,000
To support OneGoal's expansion in New York City schools
Student/Sponsor Partnership, Inc.
$50,000
To help support the College and Career Program
Union Settlement Association, Inc.
$50,000
To help support Union Settlement's College Readiness Program
Urban Assembly Inc.
$75,000 (over fifteen months)
To address the "Summer Melt" phenomenon between high school graduation and college matriculation and support Urban Assembly alumni through the first three years of their post-secondary paths
Young Invincibles
$50,000
To support #DegreesNYC and amplify the voices of young adults in New York City’s postsecondary systems