Focus Areas

K-12 Education

Strategic Partnership

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...

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...