Awarded Grants

The team that developed CLASS will use this grant to develop easy-to-administer tools that assess teacher-student interactions using student and informant (principal/supervisor) surveys.

Getting Out and Staying Out (GO&SO) will use this award to improve and upgrade the database that tracks the activities of their formerly incarcerated clients who utilize their New York City office.

Young Audiences (YA) will use this award to improve its arts residencies programs, which are offered to New York City public schools.

New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC) will use this award to improve its Trauma Recovery Program, which provides mental health services to youth who have experienced abuse, violence or neglect.

Groundswell will use this award to train their teaching artists to better identify and appropriately address the disruptive behavior of some of the program participants.

Rockaway Artists Alliance will use this award to improve and update services offered to children with special needs who attend the KidsmArt After-School program.

Love Heals will use this award to improve the Speakers Bureau Program, which sends health educators and youth speakers to public schools and community organizations to make presentations and conduct workshops on HIV/AIDS prevention.

Support was given to generate awareness of best practices, research, and successful models of after-school programs.

Support was given to publish a monograph of the University of Chicago’s model for urban elementary schooling.

Support was given to the Campaign for Educational Equity’s state-wide Task Force on Comprehensive Educational Opportunity.