Focus Areas

K-12 Education

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Comp Sci High School

Comp Sci High is New York City’s first Career and Technical Education (CTE) charter high school, founded to prepare students for successful postsecondary pathways, whether through college, workforce training, or...

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...

Get a Financial Life NYC

The Foundation has been a leader in supporting the creation and wide dissemination of highly engaging financial literacy curriculum for NYC High School Students which, in 2026, was recommended by...

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...

Leap Educational Consulting (LEAP)

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...

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...

Teaching Children to Swim

We believe that learning to swim is a life skill, not a privilege. Swimming builds confidence, self-reliance, and safety, and our goal is to make instruction a standard part of every child’s education,...