The Ability Challenge
Substantial Classrooms
Substantial was founded to unlock the potential of substitute teaching, one of the most overlooked, under-designed areas of public education. We developed SubSchool, our proven professional development platform, to provide substitute teachers with high-quality, tailored training and support. With SubSchool, we aim to cultivate the skills and confidence that make subs more effective in the […]
Propel America
Propel America, founded in 2019 to build supported alternative pathways from high school into a meaningful career in healthcare, is eager to launch a new initiative to generate awareness of and readiness for a jobs-first higher education pathway amongst 9-12th graders. Propel will launch in 2024 an updated K-12 strategy that involves working with young […]
Oakland Natives Give Back Fund, Inc.
Oakland Natives Give Back Fund Inc. (ONGB) is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to serving communities across the nation through efforts to reduce educational disparities. Our mission is to create and scale innovative solutions that empower young people and improve educational equity.
Magnolia Project
Magnolia Project is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that builds pathways for experiential learning in California’s middle and high schools. We offer relevant Career Technical Education (CTE) centering student leadership and agency through Externship, Internship and Learning Journeys Pathways. Our students are the dreamers, doers, and decision-makers in their CTE experience. Through exploratory externships, immersive work-based […]
First Tech Fund, Inc
First Tech Fund is dedicated to empowering low-income high school students in identifying, navigating, and attaining academic and professional opportunities through a supportive, adaptive ecosystem where they get access to free technology, skills training, social capital, mentorship, and more.
Education Reimagined
Education Reimagined is a national non-profit dedicated to catalyzing the invention of a new public education system; one where the education system becomes the backbone to dynamic, interdependent ecosystems of learning that can uniquely, powerfully, and equitably serve, love, and include every child in the country.
TeachStart
TeachStart was founded on the core belief that, while there may be a teacher shortage, there are still prospective educators who want to teach. Many of these prospective educators identify as people of color. TeachStart provides a pathway for prospective teachers of color to enter the classroom by removing the barriers they commonly face. TeachStart […]
Teach Indy, Inc.
Teach Indy’s mission is to recruit, convene, develop, and recognize educators of color in Indianapolis by cultivating a teacher-centered community, leading a county-wide effort to reimagine the role of a teacher, and convening educators as thought leaders. They seek to create an inclusive, diverse, sustainable education system that retains its high-quality educators of color and […]
Teachers Like Me
Teachers Like Me (TLM) aims to increase the number of Black teachers by removing barriers to entry and providing the support needed to be effective and responsive to the academic and social needs of all students, specifically students of color. TLM recruits, develops, and retains both aspiring and early career Black educators. TLM supports prospective […]