Focus Areas

K-12 Education

Catalytic Giving

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:...

Leap Educational Consulting

We have played a catalytic role in helping Achievement First (AF) to replicate its K-8 math program to selected partner schools in New York City outside AF’s traditional charter network...

Navigate the Maze to Achievement

New York City’s most selective public high schools rank among the highest-performing in the country and guide students into top-tier colleges, and long-term success and stability. However, historically marginalized communities...

Instruction Partners

Curriculum reform is a particularly difficult area but we recognize that helping schools make wise curricular choices can lead to catalytic impact. Instruction Partners is a non-profit that partners with...

Coursemojo

We made a catalytic early-stage investment in Coursemojo’s tool, Mojo, which was built as a response to the daily struggle teachers face in trying to differentiate instruction for all the...

New York City Summer Meals Program

We showed New York City Government how to increase the number of free meals served to poor students. The New York City Department of Education’s Office of SchoolFood, which provides...

Take the Field

A quarter century of budget cuts had resulted in the acute deterioration of physical education and sports facilities at New York City public high schools across the five boroughs when...