Location: New York, NY

Turnaround for Children, Inc. (“TFC”) strives to fulfill the promise of public education by helping high-poverty, low-performing public schools create positive learning environments that foster healthy intellectual, social, and emotional growth in every student. TFC envisions an America in which every public school, in every community, enables each student to reach his or her potential as a learner and citizen. TFC partners with schools serving high-poverty communities, increasing each school’s capacity to anticipate and better serve the needs of students.  TFC’s 3-4 year School Transformation Program focuses on building the school-wide proficiency of all staff in targeted behavioral and instructional practices, implementing critical systems of intervention and intensive support, and realigning mental health and social service systems, all of which enhance the school climate and optimize student performance.

With a central office in midtown Manhattan and programs in Harlem, the Bronx, and Washington DC, Turnaround expects to continue to grow and add programs in NYC as well as new areas around the Northeast next year.

Location: New York, NY

Civic Builders is the oldest, largest and most successful charter school developer in the nation. Civic’s model for school development has earned numerous accolades and has been adopted by other development entities across the country. Since its inception in 2002, Civic has established a proven track-record of delivering high-quality charter school facilities on-time and on-budget.

Location: New York, NY

Public Interest Projects (PIP) brings together the work of philanthropic institutions, nonprofit groups and other public interest organizations who share a vision and commitment to creating a just society. PIP does this by making grants to nonprofits through its collaborative funds, fiscal sponsorships and special projects on behalf of foundations and donors committed to issues related to social justice and human rights.

Through its collaborative funds, PIP brings together donors with like-minded philanthropic goals and pools their resources, thereby maximizing the impact of their funding. PIP also provides strategic direction, day-to-day management, administrative support and financial oversight to a range of specialized groups and grantees working in the area of social justice.  Finally, PIP offers fiscal sponsorship services to philanthropic affinity groups that do not have nonprofit status so that they too can broaden their funding options and advance their causes.  PIP has experienced tremendous growth due to its success and plans to continue to increase their impact going forward.  To learn more about PIP, please visit our website:  http://www.publicinterestprojects.org/

Location: New York, NY

CWCID is a nonprofit financial services organization dedicated to economic opportunity for the working poor.  To that end, we have developed and honed a unique model which engages low-wage workers in their communities, provides tailored financial advisory services, and enrolls them in a “Gateway Banking” package as the starting point to financial security.

Today we are a leader in our field. We have achieved a citywide presence in New York, serving 7,000 people annually.  We are a major partner for the City’s Financial Empowerment Centers Initiative, and are supported by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, The Robin Hood Foundation, and Single Stop USA among many others. 

We have exciting plans to scale our organization by adapting our model to the workplace.  We will position ourselves as a sustainable nonprofit “business to business” service – The Employer Solution—that leverages payroll and other employer systems to help low-wage workers achieve financial health. 

Our programmatic growth will be accompanied by a name change and a rebranding process resulting in new visual identity and messaging this year.  The launch of this brand will coincide with the move into a new 7,500 square foot headquarters, the “Getting Ahead Center”, in early 2012.

Location: New York

Founded in 1999, iMentor has quickly become one of the largest and most innovative mentoring organizations in New York City.  Over the last nine years, iMentor has developed and refined a technology-enriched mentoring model, combining email communication and in-person meetings. As a result, iMentor can significantly boost the number of skilled professionals willing and able to mentor and bring mentoring to historically underserved communities.  iMentor revolutionizes mentoring by explicitly focusing every component of its model on personal, academic, and career outcomes.

iMentor Interactive (iMi) is one of iMentor’s two flagship programs.  iMi’s mission is to facilitate the development of high quality, high impact mentoring programs by partnering with organizations to implement mentoring programs in iMentor’s model.  This program addresses the most critical challenges facing underserved youth through an innovative combination of technical assistance, technology, curriculum, evaluation and ongoing support.

iMentor offers the opportunity to work at one of the fastest growing and most innovative youth-development programs in the country and to be a part of a diverse, results-oriented, and fun team.  Recently, iMentor was selected for inclusion in the first ever federal Social Innovation Fund and recognized as one of the Best 50 non-profits to Work by The Nonprofit Times.  To learn more about our programs, please visit our website at http://www.iMentor.org.