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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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

New Jewish Home / Hebrew Home

The Foundation’s grant to the SkillSpring Young Adult Program has been catalytic in advancing and growing the SkillSpring Program and enabling The New Jewish Home to have significant impact in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Completion Innovation Fund

WWe 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, now...

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...

Modern States Education Alliance

Many students do not attain a college degree because they exhaust grant aid, such as the federal Pell Grant and New York State’s TAP, before earning enough credits to graduate....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Faith Based Education

Low-income families face limited choices if they wish to have their children educated in a faith-based school and we have long sought ways to catalyze a solution. Grantees have included:...

GO Project

The GO Project provides year-round academic, social-emotional, and family support to NYC public school students, beginning in early elementary school and continuing through middle school. Through a partnership-based model with...

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...

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...

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...

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...

READ Alliance

More than half of New York City students in grades 3-8 are not reading proficiently, a challenge that contributes to higher dropout rates in later grades. To address this early,...