America’s Promise Alliance

Founded by General Colin Powell, the America’s Promise Alliance is the nation’s largest partnership dedicated to the strength and success of our young people. By harnessing the power of our 200 partners, we are bringing more of the Five Promises to our youth, ensuring they are prepared for college, work and life. The Five Promises are [...]

Be the Change, Inc.

Be the Change, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to re-imagining American democracy for the 21st century. Inspired by the belief that America needs a new agenda, a new politics, and a new role for government, Be the Change seeks to create a more idealistic and vibrant democracy in which citizens, and citizen action, are [...]

BELL

BELL provides its educational programs–BELL After School and BELL Summer–to children who are performing below grade-level and who live in low-income communities. BELL refers to students as “scholars” because it emphasizes the high expectations they hold for all children and underscores the tremendous potential for their future successes. These programs include elements proven to increase [...]

BUILD

Using entrepreneurship as incentive, BUILD empowers youth from under-resourced communities to excel in education, lead in their communities, and succeed professionally. BUILD reaches students who may lack interest in school but who see business as a way to improve their lives. Through an in-school and after-school elective taught between 9th and 12th grades, BUILD teaches [...]

Citizen Schools

Citizen Schools is setting a new standard for after-school time with a creative and effective learning model—apprenticeships with citizen teachers—that addresses community needs while building student skills through hands-on experiential learning activities. Citizen Schools’ national network of 38 school campus sites connects more than 3,800 middle school students with more than 2,800 adult volunteers in [...]

City Year

City Year demonstrates every day that a diverse group of young leaders, 17–24 years old, has the power to make a difference. City Year corps members are tutors, mentors, and role models who lead youth service programs, make a positive impact in their schools and communities, and in the process become leaders and active citizens. [...]

Civic Ventures / Experience Corps.

Civic Ventures is leading the call to engage millions of baby boomers as a vital workforce for change. Its signature program, Experience Corps, offers Americans over 55 years old opportunities to solve serious social problems, beginning with literacy. Locally recruited Corps members spend up to 15 hours a week serving as tutors and mentors to [...]

College Summit

College Summit is increasing the college enrollment rate of low-income students by ensuring that every student who can make it in college makes it to college. College Summit builds the capacity of schools to dramatically increase college-going rates. Trained students help to influence their peers and build a college-going culture, while teachers and counselors use [...]

Computers for Youth

Computers for Youth (CFY) believes that the home holds the greatest untapped potential for improving children’s academic and life-long success. CFY partners with schools to improve the educational resources in students’ homes (their computer-based home learning centers are designed by software experts and tested by students and education executives from around the country), enhance parent-child [...]

Echoing Green

Echoing Green is effecting social change by supporting committed social entrepreneurs with bold ideas and innovative approaches to entrenched problems that have resisted solutions until now. To facilitate the nascent visions of these emerging leaders, Echoing Green provides seed money, and technical, strategic, and network support to carefully selected Fellows. From working to stop the [...]

Fitness Forward

Fitness Forward motivates and empowers children and their families to lead healthier lifestyles through education, daily health behavior tracking, incentives, and social marketing. With the encouragement of parents, educators, and volunteer corps members, elementary school students are challenged to achieve key health behaviors, for which they earn points, on a daily basis. Children monitor their [...]

GenerationEngage

GenerationEngage is involving young people without a college education in sustained civic participation through conversations with prominent civic leaders. GenerationEngage’s nonpartisan grassroots strategy creates local forums for young people across the country to debate important social issues and impact their futures. In partnership with Apple, Google, and G2, GenerationEngage disseminates videocast footage of iChats and [...]

Horizons for Homeless Children

Horizons for Homeless Children is improving the lives of homeless children and their families by providing nurturing, stimulation, and opportunities for early education and play that all children need to learn and grow in healthy ways. The program connects parents with the tools they need to achieve social and economic self-sufficiency. It also provides leadership [...]

Juma Ventures

Juma Ventures empowers youth to make successful transitions to independence in adulthood through an innovative program that integrates employment in social enterprises with essential support services. Participants begin by creating a comprehensive plan that identifies goals and developmental needs with education, careers, financial literacy and savings, personal health and wellness, and other important life skills. [...]

Jumpstart

Jumpstart engages caring, civic-minded college students and older adults in service to work toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed. Through a proven, innovative program featuring intensive one-to-one adult-child interaction for an entire school year, Jumpstart’s 3,100 corps members help more than 12,000 pre-school children annually in Head Start and [...]