For continued support of the Senior Career Success Manager who will lead the expansion of their Career Pathways Program to serve 75 college students. Through this program, college students are matched one-to-one with working professionals, ideally within students’ fields of interest, who will provide career guidance, help increase students’ professional skills, and provide enhanced access to professional networks to support the students’ career explorations and job/internship searches. For each of the six Career Pathways cohorts, the Senior Career Success Manager will facilitate weekly virtual sessions, alternating between group activities and guided one-to-one activities for mentoring matches to complete together. This staff person will also lead student recruitment, and collaborate with organizational partners to recruit and onboard their respective employee volunteers as college student mentors. The Senior Career Success Manager will additionally develop and refine the program’s curriculum, and assist the College Success Manager in providing college persistence and career access support for up to 150 third-, fourth-, and fifth-year college students.

To support a Coach who will guide Professional Learning Cohorts for leaders and educators across the City as they expand their partnership with the New York City Office of Special Education. Cohort members will engage in job-embedded professional development designed to build mindsets and practices that ensure all students can access and engage in grade-level learning. The diversity of learning needs in a single classroom is more complex than ever before. Record numbers of students are in critical need of classroom conditions that can accelerate learning. However, educators are underprepared to address the variety of learning needs they face each day. Blue Engine will address this critical education workforce challenge by providing New York City educators with professional learning and development to empower them to meet the needs of all learners.

For continued support of an Academic and Tutoring Coordinator who oversees the Club’s efforts to address the substantial learning gaps and daily academic challenges impacting their Club members. This position supports their ongoing efforts to create consistent access to academic supports and to provide the individualized attention that their Club kids require to get back on track academically. After school programming provides for regular homework help while small group tutoring after school with a Lead Teacher provides additional academic support for those who need it most. Saturday Tutoring provides age-specific, bilingual tutoring at the 2 Clubhouses by licensed tutors. These combine to create a foundational pathway to academic success to some 250 youth per week at 2 locations in Paterson and Passaic, two of New Jersey’s most socio-economically challenged communities. The Club provides boys and girls with youth development programming at their 2 Club units and several school sites in Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey.

For support of a Director of Educational Services, who will provide programs and services for middle school and high school Club members, as well as Club Alumni, focusing specifically on college readiness and preparation programming within their core program areas of Leadership, Service, and Education. Utilizing the Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s extensive menu of programming, including Diplomas to Degrees, combined with modeling best practices from the field, BGCUC will work to ensure that their members have access to a thorough college preparation program. Their education programs are designed to better ensure that all Club members will graduate from high school on time, ready for both a post-secondary education and a 21st-Century career. BGCUC is the largest facility-based, professionally-staffed youth development organization within Union County, annually serving over 4,000 boys and girls aged 5 to 18 who come from disadvantaged economic, social, and family environments.

To help support critical Planning Grant activities that CQA must undertake during the upcoming year for the opening of their CQA II Elementary School in the fall of 2024. During the first year of operations in 2024, CQA II will serve a total of approximately 200 scholars in grades K and 1 who will be enrolled by lottery, thereafter adding one grade per year (100 scholars per grade). This mirrors the successful strategy that CQA had used to open CQA I Elementary School, which has yielded outstanding outcomes. Some of the key activities related to the upcoming planning year include: securing and preparing a new facility; recruiting and hiring staff; training the Elementary School Principal; and recruiting and enrolling new students. While they focus on opening CQA II, they will also complete the expansion of CQA I Elementary School with the addition of grade 4 during the grant period. CQA’s mission is to prepare students for eventual success in college, the workforce, and the community through a school that integrates literacy, high standards-based academics, and culturally-responsive supportive services.

For staffing within their Academics team which will oversee the implementation and rollout of their expanded Literacy Acceleration Program to support approximately 250 to 300 scholars in grades 6-12 requiring additional literacy development assistance. When scholars are not on grade level in terms of literacy skills, it is increasingly difficult for them to participate in a classroom environment, and it puts them at risk of falling further behind. The tailored literacy interventions will bridge educational gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, enhancing the educational experiences for these scholars by improving their literacy skills and academic outcomes. By ensuring their scholars have the needed literacy skills, they are setting them up to succeed academically in their current year and as they matriculate to college and move to the workforce. CIP is a rigorous college-preparatory charter school located in Brooklyn’s Coney Island community that serves over 1,000 students in grades K-12.

To help support staffing for the launch of two new STEM labs for grade K-12 youths, both located within under-served public housing sites. One new lab will be located in their newly renovated Community Center located at 80 Pitt Street in Manhattan, and the other new lab will be sited within one of their longest-standing Brooklyn hubs, the Bushwick-Hylan Community Center. Together, these labs will increase tech equity for youths from these low-income communities, bringing high-quality, inquiry-led STEM education to an estimated 215 youths each year. Grand Street Settlement provides comprehensive educational programs and social services to over 15,000 people of all ages residing in high-need neighborhoods on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods.

For continued support of the Chief Academic Officer (“CAO”), responsible for the effective development, implementation, and execution of their instructional vision to better ensure grade K-12 students’ academic growth and achievement. During the second year, the CAO will continue to lead the K-12 instructional vision for all KIPP NYC schools, including the execution of regional curriculum and instructional initiatives with the support of senior leadership. The CAO will oversee: their Student Support Services team (which supports social-emotional learning, special education and remediation and intervention services); their Teaching and Learning team; and their Data Collection and Assessment Team. Additionally, the CAO will collaborate with the KIPP NYC Senior Leadership team (including the Chief Schools Officer and the Chief Equity Officer), to lead improved holistic student growth and achievement. KIPP NYC is part of a national network of exemplary college-preparatory public charter schools that prepare students in underserved communities for heightened success in college and in life.

To support the KIPP Forward Achievement Director who will develop and manage their College and Career Readiness curriculum and assessment project with the goal of improving long-term outcomes for students. The individual will be responsible for increasing the instructional leadership capacity of school-based leaders by deepening everyone’s College and Career Readiness subject matter expertise and modeling and coaching the instructional power moves. The overarching goal is to build a best-in-class College and Career Readiness course and assessment sequence in all of their high schools to drive higher levels of student engagement in: gaining critical self-assessment knowledge; identifying potential career aspirations; improving SAT/ACT scores; and increasing opportunities for pre-college summer programming in order to increase student success in choosing and succeeding on their post-secondary path. KIPP Team and Family Schools, part of the national network of KIPP Charter Schools, operates a network of K-12 schools in Newark and Camden, NJ that serves low-income, minority students.

For renewed support of their Strengthening Nonprofits Engaged in College Readiness and Career Pathways project. Through this project, LANY staff and pro bono attorneys will provide legal assistance to strengthen the programs, finances, and operations of numerous NYC nonprofit organizations that are at the forefront of college access and career pathways initiatives. LANY seeks to assist some 65 to 70 nonprofit groups offering multiple types of services: direct legal representation; brief consultations; pro bono clinics; webinars; legal alerts; and other educational programs. With timely and expert legal help, nonprofits will better be able to carry forth their respective missions, in compliance with the law, and improve the lives, opportunities, and outcomes of youth and young adults. LANY is the leading provider of business and transactional legal services to nonprofit organizations that are improving the quality of life within low-income communities throughout NYC.

To support a pilot program aimed at improving equitable enrollment in the City University of New York College Now Program, in particular disproportionately low enrollment rates for Black and Latinx males, students with disabilities, and multilingual learners. This pilot will develop and roll out new features in the Portal (their unique tool for school management), which already has data-sharing capabilities and agreements with CUNY and New York City public high schools that will both centralize and streamline the enrollment process in CUNY College Now, a dual enrollment program that enables students to earn college credit for rigorous courses taken while still in high school. By easing the process of enrollment and providing a way for schools to proactively reach out to eligible students to encourage and support the enrollment process, this new initiative will give more students a successful start towards obtaining a college degree. New Visions for Public Schools serves as a laboratory of innovation within NYC’s public-school reform efforts, creating and refining helpful new approaches to systemic challenges.

To help support three Oasis After School Academy positions – the Reading Specialist, the Math Specialist, and the English as a Second Language Teacher — to provide targeted instruction to students who are struggling to achieve grade level within these subject areas. The After-School Academy offers 130 children academic and socio-emotional interventions every weekday, from 3:30 to 6:00 p.m., over 40 weeks, from September through mid-June, serving children from kindergarten through seventh grade. Children who need individualized attention in language arts or math are pulled out of class to work in small groups with the Oasis Math or Reading Specialists. They plan to hire an English as a Second Language Teacher to better meet the needs of the growing number of incoming students who are English Language Learners. Located in Paterson, NJ, Oasis offers a holistic pathway out of poverty through numerous educational and vocational training programs. It assists women to enter and better succeed in the workforce, and it helps children to better flourish academically, and stay in school.

For continued support of the Assistant Director of Training and Academic Advising for SEO High School Scholars responsible for designing, organizing, and delivering a wide range of curricula to support the success and long-term development of SEO Program Managers, the frontline advisors to their high school students. This role supports, strengthens and builds the skills and expertise of the Program Managers, ultimately enhancing the Scholars’ experiences, program persistence, and results. Through classroom and virtual facilitations, coaching relationships, in-programming workshops, and the development of training resources, this staff position serves as a “bridge” that unites team members around the U.S., and advocates for SEO’s Program Managers. SEO works to create a more equitable society by closing the academic and career opportunity gaps for motivated young people living in underserved and/or underrepresented communities.

To support the Managing Director of Outreach, Partnerships, and Alliances responsible for developing partnerships and strategies that will better ensure that TFA is moving systemic change forward with community, local school, and graduate school partners, as well as with elected and appointed officials — all in service of supporting students to better achieve academic success. This position will: serve as the regional point of contact to drive student outcomes through corps member programming; drive community partnerships in service of their goals in Newark; and develop a robust process for hiring corps members into high-need positions at school partners across Newark. Through networking, community engagement, coalition- building and relationship-building, the Managing Director will connect their programmatic work to the priorities of the community, fostering new partnerships that can produce enhanced relationships and new, improved academic undertakings.

For support of the Vice President of Regional Impact who oversees the entire scope of corps member programming for the New York region, helping to better ensure that teachers deliver meaningful outcomes for students, while also developing their own leadership skills and vision for systemic change. Working in close collaboration with the TFA Tri-State (NY, NJ and CT) Support Hub, this Regional Impact staff member will help to ensure that all of their 300+ NYC corps members are having an impact with students, driving towards their NY 2030 goal to double 8th grade math outcomes in 5 districts, and have the local context that is required to sustain teachers in their positions. The Vice President of Regional Impact will: serve as the regional point of contact to drive student outcomes through corps member programming; build upon New York’s process for hiring corps members into high-need, hard-to-fill positions across NYC school partners; and drive programming for local NY corps members that will supplement their coaching support that is aligned to local context.

To support the implementation of Math Matters, a comprehensive teacher professional development model designed to improve mathematics instruction in grades 6-8, in four additional schools. The Math Matters program enhances math instruction in schools through learning acceleration, which has been proven to be more effective than remediation when addressing unfinished learning. Their Coaches partner with educators to ensure that they have the support they need to provide their students with rigorous, grade-level instruction, catching them up to pre-pandemic learning levels and beyond. Ultimately, their Math Matters program puts students back on track in elementary and middle-school mathematics, so that the City’s most vulnerable students will be ready for high school and beyond. Teaching Matters works to increase teacher effectiveness, one of the most critical factors regarding student success, by transforming how educators work together at urban public schools, helping the most effective teachers to develop the necessary skills by which to then lead their peers and drive school-wide improvement.

For the Success Program Director (PD) who will be leading the implementation and refinement of their new Pathways Advising pilot in their Success Program which supports college students. It is designed to meet students where they are, understanding that advising during each year in college should look different, address year-specific needs, and have a different short-term focus in mind. The pilot will improve their overall model by: increasing student engagement and advisor satisfaction and efficiency; improving outcomes; and allowing for consistent and equitable student experiences. The PD manages the quality of Success programming to better ensure it is delivered in a consistent manner and obtains high-impact results, and enables all Success staff to work together to accomplish the goals of the program. Bottom Line helps low-income and first-generation students apply to college, succeed at college, and find financial assistance to meet the costs of higher education through its College Access and College Success programs.

To support the Manager of Student Enrollment and Public School Partnerships who will lead efforts to increase student enrollment in anticipation of growing GO’s capacity and deepening its community engagement level over the next two years. This Manager will be responsible for driving strong and continuous student and family enrollment within GO’s three program areas: GO Summer; GO School; and GO Families; and also manage GO’s orientation and student engagement initiatives throughout each program year. Support of this position will help The GO Project to move forward with its five-year strategic plan to increase its capacity by 25% in Manhattan and Brooklyn, growing their total student enrollment to 750 in 2024, and to 800 by 2025. The GO Project seeks to boost academic achievement and promote healthy social and emotional development in children and families by providing year-round educational and family support services to academically struggling public school children in grades K-8 in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.

To support the Project Manager for the rollout of their new CRM platform, Overgrad, who will oversee all phases of developing and implementing this effort to better support their alumni endeavoring to obtain their college degrees. Overgrad, a tool to help them keep track of their alumni, will enable them to better target and support their most vulnerable alumni. At present, their Alumni Coaches are only able to help alumni who reach out to ask for support. Overgrad will enhance their data management so that they can intervene and provide critical support at the times where their alumni may be at risk of stopping out or dropping out due to financial, social, or personal reasons. They will be also be able to better collect predictive data so that they can anticipate students who may need support in the coming months. Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit that starts and manages outstanding urban public schools that close achievement gaps, prepares low-income students to get to and through college, and helps alumni to launch meaningful careers.