Grant Category: Education
Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill
Hyde Park, NY
Amount granted: $25,000
Grant year: 2017
Grant categories: Education, Women and Girls
To support scholarships for the Girls and Boys Leadership Workshop.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill works to continue Eleanor Roosevelt’s legacy and focuses on promoting human rights, especially of women, minorities and youth; combating racism; nurturing education and the arts; and the promotion of responsible citizenship. Among ERVK’s programs are the Race Relations Project, the Welfare Reform and Human Rights Monitoring Project, a lecture series, and the Girls Leadership Workshop. Specifically, the Girls and Boys Leadership Workshop is an international leadership development program intended for girls and boys entering their sophomore and junior years in high school. Its objective is to help young adults develop self esteem, confidence, and the skills needed to exercise leadership; to provide opportunities for self-awareness, self definition and growth; to nurture sisterhood, citizenship and social responsibility; and to celebrate the life and legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Legal Outreach
Long Island City, NY
Amount granted: $15,000
Grant year: 2017
Grant category: Education
To support its Constitutional Law Debate program
Legal Outreach is a college preparatory organization whose mission is to change the educational and career trajectory of students from underserved communities by (1) providing them with vision, inspiration and motivation, (2) equipping them with the academic skills critical to their future, and (3) supplying them with the support necessary to pursue higher education and professional careers. The law is simply a tool for achieving these objectives. The goal is to equip students with the skills necessary to perform well at the collegiate level, the professional level, and in life. Funds will be used to support its Constitutional Law Debate program, but especially the Debater of the Year Program, which will be held at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Courthouse.
Bed-Stuy Parents Committee
Brooklyn, NY
Amount granted: $13,000
Grant year: 2017
Grant categories: Education, Human Services
To support an African Dance and Drum program.
The Bed-Stuy Parents Committee formed out of a sense that its central Brooklyn neighborhood, Bedford-Stuyvesant, had reached a critical moment of opportunity to reverse the long neglect of its neighborhood public schools. Funds will be used to support enrichment activities at a newly created extended day program for pre-K students at two public school in Bed-Stuy’s District 16 neighborhood. Specifically, funds will be used to support an African Dance and Drum program that allows students to immerse themselves in the joy and vitality of music, language and dance from Africa, the Americas and Caribbean.
Boston Day and Evening Academy
Boston, MA
Amount granted: $12,360
Grant year: 2017
Grant category: Education
To support efforts to codify and develop a set of thoroughly assessed competencies, benchmarks and rubrics that can be shared with schools serving students with similar challenges.
The mission of Boston Day and Evening Academy is to re-engage off-track students in their education preparing them for high school graduation, post-secondary success and meaningful participation in their community. BDEA does this by blending a competency-based model with a student-centered and trauma-sensitive culture. Funds will be used to support efforts to codify and develop a set of thoroughly assessed competencies, benchmarks and rubrics that can be shared with schools serving students with similar challenges as those students attending BDEA. The vision is that these materials will be “open source” – i.e., available to other schools to download from their website for free.
MOUSE
New York, NY
Amount granted: $15,000
Grant year: 2016
Grant category: Education
To support the Mouse Design League, a youth centered design and Technology program that develops emerging leadership, professional and technical skills from Mouse Squads across NYC.
Mouse’s mission is to support technology’s potential for empowering youth from underserved communities to use technology as a force for good. Since 2000, more than 32,000 students across the country have participated in Mouse programs, while creating a multiplier effect through their support and leadership for more than 1.9 million students, teachers and administrators in their schools and communities. Funds will be used to support the Mouse Design League, a youth centered design and Technology program that develops emerging leadership, professional and technical skills from Mouse Squads across NYC.
Friends of Matènwa
Matènwa, Haiti
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant year: 2016
Grant category: Education
To support the Matenwa Institute of Learning in Haiti.
The mission of Friends of Matènwa is to support initiatives generated from Haiti’s rural communities for the betterment of their education, social justice, health and economic well-being. Funds will be used to support The Matènwa Community Learning Center (MCLC) and its Institute of Learning. The Institute was developed to provide a training model of its successful school model. Its model bans corporal punishment, offers instruction in Creole, incorporates gardening as part of its core curriculum, and puts an emphasis on child-centered learning in an environment of mutual respect, investigation and critical thinking.
buildOn
Stamford, CT
Amount granted: $20,000
Grant year: 2016
Grant category: Education
To support building an elementary school in Haiti.
buildOn’s mission is to enhance education and empower youth in the US to make a positive difference in their communities while helping people of developing countries increase their self-reliance through education. Funds will be used to build a three classroom primary school, in partnership with the local Ministry of Education, and improve adult literacy in Southwestern Haiti.
Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill
Hyde Park, NY
Amount granted: $12,500
Grant year: 2015
Grant category: Education
To support the Girls Leadership Workshop.
The Children’s Initiative
Vietnam
Amount granted: $6,000
Grant year: 2014
Grant categories: Education, Human Services
To support the Catdung Middle School Summer Programming.
Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY
Amount granted:
Grant year: 2010
Grant category: Education
$2,500 for the clearing of land and providing access for its ARTFARM.