Love Heals, which advocates for young people’s right to HIV/AIDS education, wants to improve its Leadership Empowerment and Awareness Program (LEAP) for Girls program.
Renaissance E.M.S. provides music instruction and musical instruments to 23 schools in the Bronx and offers an after-school program at its center in the South Bronx.
New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) wants to improve the Science Career Ladder program (SCL), which recruits and trains high school students to become Explainers, who then interact with museum visitors by answering science questions prompted by exhibits.
Vital Theatre Company produces original family musicals in its 108-seat theater and also provides arts-integrated education to three partner schools (800 students) in Brooklyn and the Bronx through Vital High School Voices.
Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) places writers who have publishing credits and teaching experience in K–12 urban schools into mainly English/Language Arts (ELA) classrooms.
Nancy Hill, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, will use this Distinguished Fellows award to immerse herself in the operations of Massachusetts’s Executive Office of Education and the Child and Youth Readiness Cabinet.
The National Summer Learning Association and the Forum for Youth Investment seek to increase alignment between the summer learning and after-school fields.
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
