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To inspire and empower young people to become responsible citizens, compassionate leaders, and to live their dreams.

Because all children deserve excellent teachers, the Golden Apple Foundation advances the teaching profession by recognizing excellent teachers, leveraging their thinking and efforts to improve education, recruiting and preparing prospective teachers with a special emphasis on schools of need, and providing teachers access to innovative resources.

Just Say YES – Youth Equipped to Succeed (“JSY”) is a 501(c)3 nationally recognized provider of programs for youth in 38 states with an emphasis on the DFW area (75% of agency programming is in DFW).  The mission of Just Say YES is to provide youth with factual and relational information equipping them to live healthy and successful lives.  We accomplish this by assisting communities, schools, and school districts in developing a customized character/risk avoidance education strategy.  We then bring together various resources – speakers, curriculum, and multimedia presentations – to implement the strategy as we present selected programs encouraging teens to pursue goals and avoid high risk behaviors such as alcohol and drugs, teen sexual activity, and bullying.

ISB offers both a bilingual education that is based on the best of the French and American academic systems and leads to the French Baccalaureate or, alternatively, an international, English-based program leading to the International Baccalaureate Diploma. Within these two contexts, it is our aim, as our Philosophy states, “to provide students with a positive, inclusive learning environment, in which they have every opportunity to achieve their full potential.”

Holy Cross High School, a Catholic college preparatory school in Queens, New York, educates the hearts and minds of young men following the educational and spiritual vision of Blessed Father Basil Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Holy Cross embraces students who reflect social and economic diversity.  The school strives to instill within each student a desire to identify and fully develop his talents while pursuing excellence in all his endeavors. Holy Cross’ varied academic programs and activities nurture and promote spiritual, intellectual, creative, social and psychological growth and development.  The ultimate goal is the formation of “The Holy Cross Man”. 

RePublic Schools is a free, open-enrollment network of public charter schools dedicated to reimagining public education in the South by preparing scholars for college and teaching them to code.

New Garden Friends School seeks to be an inclusive, innovative educational community guided by Quaker beliefs and committed to honoring and developing each person's gifts.

Shining Hope for Communities (SHOFCO) is a grassroots movement that catalyzes large-scale transformation in Kenya's urban slums by providing critical services for all, community advocacy platforms, and education and leadership development for women and girls.

826 is the largest youth writing network in the country. 826 was founded in 2002 by author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari. Rooted in the belief that strong writing skills are essential for academic and lifelong success, the 826 Network now serves close to 80,000 students ages 6-18 in under-resourced communities each year, with the support of almost 5,000 volunteers. 826 has chapters in nine U.S. cities: Boston, Chicago, Detroit/Ann Arbor, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New Orleans, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Each chapter offers five core programs for free: After-School Tutoring, Field Trips, Workshops, Young Authors' Book Project, and In-School program.826Digital.com makes our inventive writing resources available to educators everywhere for free.

The vision and mission of the school is to harbor and foster an environment where the students will a) understand the Rebbe’s vision of reaching every corner of the earth b) realize their responsibility for impacting their environment and the world around them and c) acquire the necessary tools, academically, emotionally, and socially, to complete this mission.  

The mission of Book Trust is to uniquely deliver choice and ownership of books to children from low-income families, increasing their literacy skills and fostering life-long learning. Our organization believes that by inspiring a passion for reading one child at a time, we will help to increase the number of children with strong literacy skills who are prepared to be successful in school and beyond.

Guided by the Quaker belief that there is a Divine Light in everyone, Brooklyn Friends School cultivates an intellectually ambitious and diverse community that celebrates each individual’s gifts. We challenge our students to value and embrace difference as they develop critical thinking skills and apply their knowledge and intelligence both in and out of the classroom. In this rich learning environment, we inspire all members of our community to voice their convictions, to discover and pursue their passions, and to seek truth. Our graduates are compassionate, curious, and confident global citizens who let their lives speak in the spirit of leadership and service.