Say Yes To Education, Inc.
Project Title
As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1987 by George Weiss, Say Yes to Education addresses the post-secondary completion agenda, paying special attention to first-generation, low income and under-represented students while also addressing the link between postsecondary completion and a city’s economic health and prosperity. Say Yes now serves more than 140,000 students in New York City, Syracuse, Buffalo, and Guilford County, North Caroline in partnership with private colleges across the United States. With Corporation support, Say Yes will continue its work in creating conditions to help to foster a community-wide sense of commitment and responsibility to the success of the public school district. These set of conditions include a commitment to transparency, a culture of high expectations for all students, fiscal and organizational management acumen to build and deliver comprehensive supports with sustainable funding streams and a capacity for dynamic collaboration that enables a community to align all assets
Website
Project Title
A one-time only grant for a comprehensive guidebook and toolkits to support scale-up implementation of the city-wide school transformation strategy in new cities.
Date
Jun. 09, 2011
Duration
12 months