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RevJen

RevJen works with nonprofit leadership teams in a collaborative peer-learning environment focused on building organizational approaches to common issues such as revenue-generation. We formed a strategic partnership with RevJen to...

Arbor Rising

Our strategic partnership with Arbor Rising (AR) has connected 45 non-profits in New York City metro area with hands-on consulting services. Arbor Rising identifies, funds and assists promising education, youth...

SeaChange Capital Partners

SeaChange Capital Partners is a non-profit merchant bank; its mission is to enable transactions that increase the impact of nonprofits while offering leveraged funding opportunities and strategic partnerships with funders....

Cause Strategy Partners

We launched Cause Strategy Partners (CSP) with its first funding, enabling it to build strategic partnerships with corporations in an effort to strengthen non-profit boards by offering earlier-career professionals an...

Teacher Accelerator Program

We funded the planning and implementation of the Teacher Accelerator Program (TAP) which teams up with the largest educational institutions in Miami, Florida (University of Miami, Miami Dade College, Teach...

New Jewish Home

We support workforce development programs for jobs in which there is a hiring need and an employer willing to hire based on objective criteria such as a certification or satisfactory...

Emerging Leaders Program

The Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) supports high school students in the South Bronx in attaining life-sustaining careers through early career exposure, development of in-demand professional skills and career mentorship. ELP...

Basta

Overwhelmingly, first-generation students do not have the tools and connections they need to land great first jobs that offer strong starting salaries, competitive benefits and the type of career-ladder opportunities...

The Door

The Door serves nearly 11,000 youth from all five boroughs, providing an array of wraparound programs and supports. In addition to general operating support, we provided the principal support for...

Braven

We helped fund the launch of Braven, a career success program targeting the education-to-employment gap, in New York City through a strategic partnership with Lehman College. Building on the early...

Modern States Education Alliance

Many students do not attain a college degree because they run out of grant funds, such as Pell and TAP grants, before acquiring enough credits to graduate. A highly effective way...

uAspire

School counselors often lack the training and capacity to provide the college affordability planning and financial aid coaching students need. uAspire is the strongest program providing students with access to...

College Completion Innovation Fund

We were an early funder of a strategic partnership which led to the creation of the College Completion Innovation Fund (CCIF) through Graduate NYC. We helped establish the CCIF to...

College Advising Corps

We have supported two strategic partnerships involving College Advising Corps (CAC) and the College Board. The first centered around the development of a learning lab in which they collaboratively tested...

College Access: Research & Action (CARA)

We have encouraged college access programs to share best practices and to expand their reach by training other organizations in what they do and how. CARA has developed and refined...

The Opportunity Network

The Opportunity Network (OppNet) is one of the most effective programs at teaching career-readiness skills to high-achieving youth through its direct-to-student Fellows program and Career Fluency Partnerships program–strategic partnerships with...

CollegePoint

We formed a strategic partnership with other funders for and helped to lead the design, incubation and scaling of CollegePoint—a coalition of nonprofit organizations helping high-achieving, low- and moderate-income students...

Student Leadership Network’s CollegeBound Initiative

We supported a collaboration between Student Leadership Network’s CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), a high-touch college guidance and access program that places highly-trained, full-time college counselors in partnering Title I New York...

College Admissions Cognitive Advisor

We were an initial funder of a strategic partnership between foundations and a technology company which led to the development of the College Admissions Cognitive Advisor, an innovative, web-based tool...

ExpandED Schools

We joined with other NYC funders to create a strategic partnership to devise and implement a plan of action to bring high-dosage, high-impact tutoring to New York City – something...

GO Project

The GO Project provides year-round educational and family support programs for 700 New York City public school children (K-8) who are performing below grade level. During and in the aftermath...

Lavinia Group at Select Charter Schools

We established partnerships between Lavinia Group and a number of charter schools. Lavinia is an organization that helps its partner schools and networks revitalize their literacy and math instruction through...

Reading Go (Formerly Reading Rescue) & GO Project

In the area of early literacy, we created two unique and replicable strategic partnerships: (1) between CUNY Brooklyn College and Reading Go and (2) between Reading Go and the GO...

Helping Education

We initiated a strategic partnership with four other foundations: Tiger Foundation, Pinkerton Foundation, Altman Foundation and Benedict Silverman Foundation, to accelerate learning in early literacy for kindergarten to fifth grade...

Springboard Collaborative & Reading Partners

We supported a strategic partnership between two of our grantees—Springboard Collaborative and Reading Partners—to increase literacy in elementary school students with year-round programming. (Springboard works with students during the summer...

East Harlem Pride School Collaboration

We conceived of a unique strategic partnership between three schools in East Harlem—Park East High School, Central Park East High School (CPEHS), and The Heritage School, which has now expanded...

READ Alliance

Over half of New York City students in grades 3 through 8 are not proficient in reading, which results in increased high school and junior high school drop-out rates. So...

MICRO

MICRO creates six-foot-tall science museums with the goal of creating a science education experience that is accessible to underserved populations. Museums are typically clustered in wealthy neighborhoods and their visitor...