A Better Chance - New York, New York
The goal of this organization is to expand the pool of thoroughly educated young people of color so that they may become leaders in our society. Through their College Preparatory School Program (300 schools in 27 states) ABC tackles their mission through 500 students of color grades 6-12 annually, changing their lives by giving them access to reputable schools with more rigorous curricula.4
buildOn - Chicago, Detroit, New York, Oakland/San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Southern Connecticut
buildOn empowers youth struggling in urban areas through afterschool service programs to help them turn the tables around and benefit from their communities and vice versa. The young people involved with this program have a reduced truancy rate of over 60% and 94% of the participants who have graduated from high school have gone off to college.5