Our Partners
UFT PROSE
PROSE stands for Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools for Excellence. It is a program predicated on the UFT's core belief that schools work best when all members of the community feel respected and the word "collaboration" is not just a cliché.
CHILL FOUNDATION
Chill inspires young people through boardsports and builds a more equitable outdoor community
SERVING GLOBALLY SINCE 1995
AMAZING METS FOUNDATION
As the philanthropic arm of the New York Mets, the Amazin' Mets Foundation aims to serve our community and inspire others to make a lasting impact - on and off the field.
We all need to do our part to end childhood hunger in the United States. But millions of kids are living with hunger right now. With No Kid Hungry, you can help change that.
EDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC
Education Through Music (ETM) partners with under-resourced schools to provide music as a core subject for all children, and utilizes music education as a catalyst to improve overall achievement, motivation for school, and self-confidence.
OUTWARD BOUND CREW
Crew is the signature advisory and community-building structure in all NYC Outward Bound Schools. Crew is both a structure that encourages academic and social-emotional growth as well as a school-wide culture.
AMAZON FUTURE ENGINEER
Amazon Future Engineer is a comprehensive childhood-to-career program aimed at increasing access to computer science education for students from underserved and underrepresented communities.
Louis Armstrong House Museum
The Louis Armstrong House Museum sustains and promotes the cultural, historical, and humanitarian legacy of Louis Armstrong by preserving and interpreting Armstrong’s house and grounds, collecting and sharing archival materials that document Armstrong’s life and legacy, developing programs for the public that educate and inspire, and engaging with contemporary artists to create performances and new works.
GODWIN-TERNBACH MUSEUM
The Godwin-Ternbach Museum, a part of the Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, located on the Flushing campus of Queens College, City University of New York, organizes cultural exhibitions and programs of contemporary and historical significance for the diverse audiences of Queens and the metropolitan region—students, faculty and public alike.
BILLION OYSTER PROJECT
A future in which New York Harbor is the center of a rich, diverse, and abundant estuary. The communities that surround this complex ecosystem have helped construct it, and in return benefit from it, with endless opportunities for work, education, and recreation. The harbor is a world-class public space, well used and well cared for—our Commons.
PRISMS VR
Prisms is the world’s first spatial learning platform in which students learn core math, science, and everything else through abstracting up from physical human experiences.
MOTIONSCOOP
MotionScoop Dance Academy was established in February 2018 by Marisabel Vasconez (ABT® Certified Teacher) in an effort to provide quality dance training in Queens, NYC. MSDA is like an ice cream shop, you choose the flavors of dance that you want to explore and we build your dance training around this.
LEGO Education
LEGO Education is a unique team of educators and innovators, and based on the LEGO® brick, we’ve built engaging learning experiences for over 40 years. But what we bring to the classroom is more than just fun - we’re serious about learning outcomes. We work alongside administrators to implement standards-aligned STEAM programs for Pre-K-8 that help students build their academic knowledge and essential skills like critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving.
SUCCESS IN MOTION
Our program is ground-breaking, unparalleled and is the model for effectively igniting school teachers across the nation. We are deeply committed to improving the well-being of the teachers and staff we serve. Well-being addresses physical, mental, emotional and financial health which when improved leads to happy, healthy and successful teachers. We design programs to address the whole person; from fitness and nutrition to mental health and preventative care.
ANJA DANCE
Based in NYC and rooted in South Asia, we express the diverse Indian diaspora through dance and music. We perform, teach and develop programs at school, work, museums, – anywhere!
NY SUNWORKS
We build state-of-the-art Hydroponic Classrooms, teach the science of sustainability
and climate change, and transform learning in K-12 city schools.
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UFT Teacher Center
The UFT Teacher Center is a comprehensive professional development program that promotes teacher excellence and student achievement. We provide varied professional learning opportunities to enable educators to address the diverse needs of the whole child. The heart of our work is with teachers and students in the classroom including those in our lowest performing schools.
Meet the Writers
Meet the Writers, Inc. promotes literacy and fosters a love of reading in New York City students by bringing diverse authors and artists to their schools. Through the lively exchange of ideas with inspiring writers, students become excited about books and the power of reading in their lives. Meet the Writers aims to reach all children, but has a particularly strong presence in Title I schools where the majority of students are part of low-income families. Our goal is for every student who meets an author to go home with a signed book as a reminder of the relevance of reading. We believe that reading matters and that better readers make better writers and better thinkers.
FoodStream Learn
DOE Food Education vendor, FoodStream Learn, blends common core skills with hands-on cooking, gardening, and interactive gaming to deepen students’ relationship to diet, health, food origins, and sustainability, as well as math and English. Through our network, we also offer internships in food-related careers.
Beam Center
Each year, Beam Center collaborates with more than 4,000 young people across NYC. We co-create dozens of projects—big and small—that expose youth to technical, social, and career-oriented skills. A Beam Center experience empowers young people to set and achieve ambitious goals in school, at work, and in life.