Coro Northern California

Coro trains, supports, and connects leaders to foster a thriving democracy and tackle society's biggest challenges together. Coro graduates gain a deeper understanding of how the world works, the leadership skills to improve it, and a network of engaged and influential peers to help them reach their goals.

The mission of First Place is to help foster youth build the skills they need to make a successful transition to self-sufficiency and responsible adulthood. My First Place is a nationally-recognized education and employment program model that employs housing and case management supports to enable youth to develop a sense of permanency and build the skills they need for a successful transition to self-sufficiency.

PBLWorks (Buck Institute for Education)

As a mission-driven nonprofit organization, PBLWorks (created by the Buck Institute for Education) creates, gathers, and shares high-quality PBL instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts.

For teachers, BIE offers professional development on how to design, assess, and manage projects that engage and motivate students. For schools, BIE helps bring coherence to PBL practices across grade levels and subject areas, and supports the creation of school-wide processes and structures to support PBL. For districts, BIE offers unrivaled service and expertise in creating and sustaining district-wide PBL initiatives. The exponential increase in demand for its services and products speak to BIE’s ability to help educators around the world provide a better education for all students.

The Buffett Early Childhood Institute

The mission of the Buffett Institute is to ensure that all children have the opportunity to develop, learn, and succeed in life.

We focus especially on children at-risk because of poverty, abuse, or developmental delay, and concentrate our efforts on the first eight years of life. We bring together those who are working to improve early childhood education and development. We serve as a catalyst for change and provide a unified vision and common approach for how we can work together to improve children’s learning and development.

Children’s Council San Francisco

Children’s Council connects families to child care that meets their needs and works with parents, providers, and community partners to make quality child care and early education a reality for all children in our city.

Concourse Education

Concourse Education’s mission is to spur economic mobility by helping more students graduate with a rigorous, low-cost, and job-relevant degree. This is done by re-designing the college experience to better meet the needs of working adults.

Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children

For almost 50 years, the Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children (DVAEYC) has championed high quality early care and education for children from birth to age 8 in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Our mission is simple. We are dedicated to ensuring educational opportunity for every child in our community. To accomplish this, we train early childhood professionals in best practice skills and career development. We coach early childhood education programs to meet higher standards of PA Keystone STARS and national accreditation. We also engage policy makers to invest in high-quality early childhood education throughout southeastern Pennsylvania.

East Bay College Access Network

The East Bay College Access Network was founded in 2011 with the East Bay Consortium, Centro Legal de la Raza, the East Oakland Youth Development Center and the Marcus Foster Education Fund.

The four nonprofits created the Access Network to address the crisis of college access and opportunity for youth in Oakland. As a new collaborative, the four founders chose to dedicate their first project to increasing the number of Oakland Unified graduates who apply for and receive financial aid.

Education Through Music

Education Through Music (ETM) partners with inner-city schools to provide music as a core subject for all children, and utilizes music education as a catalyst to improve academic achievement, motivation for school, and self-confidence.

Education Through Music believes that every child deserves access to high-quality music education, taught by qualified and well-trained music teachers. Music should support learning in other key areas, including math, science, and language arts. Engaged parents and school communities are key to the success of students.

Larkin Street Youth Services

Larkin Street Youth Services was founded in 1984 by a group of local business owners, church members, and neighbors who were concerned by the rising number of young people engaging in risky behaviors on the streets of San Francisco.

With 25 comprehensive youth service programs located throughout San Francisco in over 15 sites, Larkin Street Youth Services is now an internationally recognized model successfully integrating housing, education, employment, and health services to get homeless and at-risk kids off the streets. Larkin Street provides youth between the ages of 12 and 24 with the help they need to rebuild their lives. Each year, more than 4,000 youth walk through our doors seeking help. We give them a place where they can feel safe; rebuild their sense of self-respect, trust, and hope; learn school, life, and job skills; and find the confidence to build a future.

Memphis Music Initiative

MMI invests in youth development through transformative music engagement, creating equitable opportunities for black and brown youth in Memphis.

Memphis Public Library (System)

Memphis Public Library and Information Center (MPLIC) operates the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library and 15 branches in Memphis neighborhoods that serve 652,050 city residents. All together, MPLIC manages 531,218 square feet of library space.

Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative

The Nebraska Early Childhood Collaborative (NECC) was established in 2014 as a strategic initiative of the Buffett Early Childhood Fund. NECC was designed to provide back office and consulting services for early childhood development and care centers and in March 2015, was awarded a $2.6 million federal Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership grant.

NECC uses a shared services model to maximize efficiency, strengthen business practices, and ultimately, raise the quality of early childhood education programs. Shared services is a collaborative business model that reduces costs and allows organizations to focus on their stakeholders. It is a well-known fact that the cost of doing business for childcare providers makes it very difficult to provide high-quality services while maintaining back office integrity.

New York City Leadership Academy

The mission of the NYC Leadership Academy is to prepare and support visionary, passionate educators to become exceptional leaders. The future of education requires well-trained leaders who can improve the achievement of students who need it most—leaders who can build a school team with a sense of urgency, drive, and commitment.

We are dedicated to the ongoing development of such leaders. NYCLA is transforming the landscape of public education. School leaders nationwide have been able to improve their leadership practice and turn underperforming schools into schools where students achieve.

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Attending Stanford GSB will transform your life and the lives of those around you. And that’s only the beginning.

Every day, our alumni are making a positive, measurable difference in the world. A recent study by two Stanford professors determined that alumni from across Stanford University have collectively created nearly $3 trillion in economic impact each year, and have generated 5.4 million jobs.

Summer Search

Summer Search is a national youth development non-profit. We work with low-income high school students to transform what they believe is possible for themselves.

We help students in seven cities across the country develop the skills and character traits they need to become college-educated leaders who give back to their families and communities.

The Wall Street Wizards

The Wall Street Wizards is an urban financial literacy program that empowers students of color.