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Non-Profit Strategic Partners
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Boys & Girls Clubs of America is a national organization whose mission is to "enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens."
They envision a future in which the Boys & Girls Club Movement is a catalyst for an age in which success is within reach of every child, and whole generations of children are inspired to high levels of civic engagement. The scope of the Boys & Girls Clubs Movement serves more than 4.2 million young people annually through membership and community outreach, including some 4,000 chartered Clubs in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, on U.S. military bases around the world, and Native American lands.
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BELL exists to transform the academic achievements, self-confidence, and life trajectories of children living in under-resourced, urban communities and pursues this mission through two educational programs, BELL Summer and BELL After School. BELL works to ensure all children have the learning opportunities they need to fulfill their potential in school and in life in order to accelerate academic achievement and increase graduation rates. Through these learning experiences, students benefit from small-group academic instruction, mentorship, a wide range of enrichment activities, and community engagement. In 2010, more than 10,000 students became BELL scholars.
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Established in 1915, the California Community Foundation is committed to improving the lives of all Los Angeles County residents. They do this by helping individuals, families and organizations meet their own philanthropic goals and by supporting Los Angeles nonprofits through grant making, program-related investments and endowment building services. They seek to improve life for all residents, especially those who are most vulnerable; promote philanthropy and act as an effective steward of charitable funds; and work with others to address the core causes of problems facing our region.
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Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) offers comprehensive employment services exclusively for people with criminal records. CEO’s model is based on a highly structured program of life skills education, short-term paid transitional employment, full-time job placement and post-placement services. CEO is committed to serving the most at-risk populations. They place an emphasis on providing services to Young Adults ages 18-25—a population who frequently has limited work experience and faces particularly strong barriers to entering the workforce.
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Citizen Schools partners with middle schools to expand the learning day for children in low-income communities across the country. By drawing thousands more citizens into schools each year as trained volunteers and teachers, they are promoting student achievement and transforming schools in America. Since its founding in Boston in 1995, Citizen Schools has been re-imagining the learning day to bring more time, more talented adults, and more relevant learning experiences to middle-school students in low-income neighborhoods and helping to close the achievement gap.
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Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity whose mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger. Each year, the Feeding America network provides food to more than 37 million low-income people facing hunger in the United States, including more than 14 million children and nearly 3 million seniors. This network of more than 200 food banks serves all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, securing and distributing more than 2.5 billion pounds of food and grocery products annually. Those member food banks support approximately 63,000 local charitable agencies and 70,000 programs, which provide food directly to individuals and families in need.
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Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties puts people back to work, providing education and career services to people who have disadvantages that would otherwise make it hard for them to find jobs. 85% of the cost of these services is paid for by Goodwill businesses. Sometimes called the “original recycler,” Goodwill’s main business is to collect donated clothes, jewelry, even automobiles and sell them online or in one of 17 retail outlets. Every month, Goodwill serves 325 program participants, places 73 people in jobs, processes over 100,000 retail transactions, and diverts 1.5 million lbs. of material goods from landfill.
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Green Dot Public Schools is committed to changing the landscape of public education in Los Angeles so that every child can be successful in college, leadership, and life. Green Dot is fulfilling this mission by running high-achieving public charter schools that are focused on graduating students and fully preparing them for college. In addition, Green Dot is dedicated to helping parents throughout the city organize and demand more of their neighborhood schools, the overarching goal being to encourage Los Angeles Unified School District to implement bold reform and improve the city's public schools.
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Jewish Family and Children's Services (JFCS), San Francisco is one of the oldest and largest family service institutions in the United States. JFCS serves 65,000 people annually with the highest quality, research-based social services designed to strengthen individuals, strengthen families, and strengthen community. As the problem-solving center for residents of San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, Santa Clara, and San Mateo counties, they are a lifeline for children, families, and older adults facing life transitions and personal crises.
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Jumpstart addresses the achievement gap between underserved children and their peers by working with local colleges and communities to recruit and train Corps members to work with preschool children in Head Start and other low-income preschools. Participants gain the critical language and literacy skills they need for school success. Through this relationship, Jumpstart inspires children to learn, adults to teach, families to get involved and communities to progress together.
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KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment, college-preparatory public schools with a track record of preparing students in underserved communities for success in college and in life. There are currently 82 KIPP schools in 19 states and the District of Columbia serving more than 21,000 students. Every day, KIPP students across the nation are proving that demographics do not define destiny. Eighty percent of KIPP students are from low-income families and eligible for the federal free and reduced-price meals program, and 90 percent are African American or Latino. Nationally, more than 90 percent of KIPP middle school students have gone on to college-preparatory high schools, and over 85 percent of KIPP alumni have gone on to college.
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The Los Angeles Urban League has been at the forefront of identifying and addressing issues that are of concern to African Americans and other minorities in the City of Los Angeles for more than 86 years. The mission of the Los Angeles Urban League is to enable African Americans and other minorities to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights through advocacy activities and the provision of programs and services in our uniquely diversified city and region.
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Today, Mercy Corps is helping 19 million people recover from disasters, build stronger communities and find their own solutions to poverty. Since its founding in 1979, Mercy Corps has provided $2.2 billion in assistance to people in 114 countries. They work in failing states, conflict zones, and countries recovering from natural disaster, where a child's life is often at risk, where a woman’s education is usually ignored, and where a family's livelihood is never a sure thing.
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The mission of New Leaders is to ensure high academic achievement for every student by attracting and preparing outstanding leaders and supporting the performance of the urban public schools they lead at scale. New Leaders elevates urban student achievement beyond ordinary to extraordinary. Stellar academic success achieved by New Leaders principals in some of America’s major urban centers is clear evidence that children from all communities can achieve at the highest levels. The leaders chosen and developed by New Leaders are influential agents of change who impact not only students and schools but entire communities, producing high school graduates well prepared for college, careers, and beyond.
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Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and injustice. Together with individuals and local groups in more than 100 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty, and fights for social justice. Oxfam America is an affiliate of Oxfam International.
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Project HOPE works to make health care available for people around the globe. Their work includes educating health professionals and community health workers, strengthening health facilities, fighting disease and providing humanitarian assistance through donated medicines, medical supplies and volunteer medical help.
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San Francisco Unified School District is comprised of 140 pre-K through 12th grade public schools and is the top performing large urban school district in the state of California and one of the top performing urban districts in the country. The District's mission is to provide each student with an equal opportunity to succeed by promoting intellectual growth, creativity, self-discipline, cultural and linguistic sensitivity, democratic responsibility, economic competence, and physical and mental health so that each student can achieve his or her maximum potential.
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Save the Children's mission is to create lasting, positive change in the lives of children in need. Save the Children works for and with children at risk of hunger and malnutrition and those affected by natural disaster, war and conflict. The organization ensures that children can survive and thrive, and that their families and communities have the resources, and skills to enable them to do so.
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Teach For America’s mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting the nation’s most promising future leaders in the effort. To do this, Teach for America builds a national corps of outstanding recent college graduates and professionals—of all academic majors and career interests—who commit two years to teach in public schools in the nation’s lowest-income communities and become lifelong leaders for expanding educational opportunity. |
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The New Teacher Project (TNTP) is a national nonprofit dedicated to closing the achievement gap by ensuring that high-need students get outstanding teachers. Founded by teachers in 1997, TNTP partners with school districts and states to implement scalable responses to their most acute teacher quality challenges. Since its inception, TNTP has trained or hired approximately 37,000 teachers, benefiting an estimated 5.9 million students nationwide. It has established more than 75 programs and initiatives in 31 states and published four seminal studies on urban teacher hiring and school staffing.
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United Way's mission is to be the catalyst that enables people to strengthen their communities by investing in one another. The United Way is dedicated to creating long lasting change by ensuring that all residents have the access to the building blocks to a better life: education, income, and health.
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Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency. Women for Women International believes that access to knowledge and voice, plus access to and control of economic resources, leads to lasting change for women. Over the last 16 years, Women for Women International has transformed the lives of more than 200,000 socially excluded women survivors of war, benefiting more than 1 million family and community members.
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Year Up is a one-year, intensive training program that provides urban young adults 18-24, with a unique combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate internship. Year Up enables participants to move on to full-time employment and higher education and provides opportunities for urban young adults to demonstrate their true potential.
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