Education is the best poverty-prevention method out there. Robin Hood supports superior schools — public, private, and parochial — in the city’s poorest neighborhoods. These schools emphasize rigorous academics, dynamic leadership and utilize an extended day and extended year model. We also support programs that prevent students from falling behind, reinvigorate teaching, and provide students with needed mental and social services. When statistics revealed that nearly sixty percent of New York City public school students in grades 3 through 8 read below grade level, Robin Hood, together with the Department of Education, launched the L!brary Initiative to reverse low literacy skills and underachievement by creating libraries that are vibrant centers of teaching and learning.
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Achievement First
Operates eight elementary or middle schools and a new high school in Brooklyn, all utilizing sophisticated tools for student assessment.
Advocates for Children
Offers legal help to public-school students, especially those who are failing or have special needs.
Automotive High School—Good Shepherd
Brings social workers to this Brooklyn public high school to help students resolve school, home or community problems before they sabotage academic progress and, ultimately, graduation.
Beginning With Children Foundation, Inc.
Runs two charter schools in Brooklyn—an elementary school and one of the first kindergarten-through-eighth grade charters in the state.
Broadway Housing
Houses formerly homeless and mentally ill people, provides tenants comprehensive social and education services and hires tenants to maintain residences.
Bronx Community High School—Good Shepherd Services
Operates a "last-chance" high school for former dropouts and students at risk of academic failure.
Bronx Laboratory High School
Creates a program to get more of the graduates of this public high school enrolled in college.
Bronx Preparatory Charter School
Runs a charter in South Bronx serving fifth through twelfth grade, sending nearly 100 percent of graduates to college.
Center for Environment, Economy and Society
Creates—and trains teachers to use—an environment-based curriculum geared to experiential learning in five Brooklyn middle schools.
Children’s Aid Society’s National Adolescent Sexuality Training Center
Oversees the Carrera teen-pregnancy prevention program, providing mental health, medical, educational and employment assistance to students in middle and high schools and at community-based sites both in and outside of New York City.
The Children's Storefront
Operates an independent, tuition-free school for low-income children in East Harlem, many of whom suffer from learning disabilities and emotional difficulties.
Classroom, Inc.
Offers a computer-based program for raising literacy skills of adolescent readers during summer school and throughout the school year.
Coalition For Hispanic Family Services
Runs a training program that helps parents find new ways to respond to their children's needs.
Comprehensive Development Inc./Manhattan Comprehensive Night And Day High School
Tutors and counsels students at Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day, a “last chance” high school for students, many of whom are recent immigrants or have failed out of other schools.
Cristo Rey New York High School
Adds academic support for the lowest performing students at this East Harlem high school where students work one day a week.
Democracy Preparatory Charter School
Offers 6th through 9th graders (expanding through 12th grade) an extended-day and extended-year program, which features competitive debating.
Eagle Academy Foundation
Supports and strengthens academic programs at the Eagle Academy for Young Men, a public all-boys high school in the Bronx, and supplies a full-time college advisor.
Explore Schools
Runs a new network of charter schools, which consists of two schools that will serve kindergarten through eighth grade, and will open least two more schools by 2013.
Fan4Kids
Provides students an integrated nutrition and fitness program.
Friends of the Children
Pairs a paid mentor with an at-risk child for four hours per week, twelve months a year, starting in first grade and lasting through high school.
Future Leaders Institute
Educates students in a kindergarten-8th grade charter school that features an intensive high school placement program.
Gary Klinsky Children's Center
Runs after-school programs for students in grades kindergarten through eight in underserved, high-crime neighborhoods, using theme-based curricula.
Go Project
Offers Saturday tutoring and mentoring and an academically focused summer program to high-poverty, low performing children in grades kindergarten through five.
Groundwork, Inc.
Reaches over 500 students and families living in public housing by running after-school and summer programs in East New York and offering complete Single Stop services to the community.
Harlem RBI, Inc.
Uses baseball to engage students in its youth-development program and runs the Dream Charter School in East Harlem.
Harlem Village Academies
A network of three charter schools in Harlem consisting of two middle schools that feed one high school.
High School for Global Citizenship – Global Kids
Brings social workers and remedial reading program to this Brooklyn high school, where a quarter of the student body struggles with social, emotional and literacy issues that will keep them from graduating high school.
iMentor
Brings mentoring-via-e-mail to students at Bronx Preparatory Charter School and Bronx Academy of Letters, focusing on preparing students to apply to and enroll in college.
Jewish Child Care Association
Mentors low-income students at risk of academic failure and runs a last-chance high school for failing students and former dropouts.
KIPP
Runs a network of New York City charter schools that opened an elementary school and high school in fall 2009 and operates four middle schools that outperform neighborhood schools in math and reading by more than 15 percentage points.
League Treatment Center
Combines special-education teaching, clinical service and therapeutic treatment to help children with severe psychiatric conditions and developmental disabilities.
Legal Outreach
Uses legal education as the curricular foundation of a four-year after-school program for low-income teenagers in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Liberty Leads
Provides an academically focused after-school program, based at the Bank Street College of Education, for students in grades 5 through 12.
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia
Brings mental-health services to students in schools to cut down emergency-room visits and school absences.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine - Project Step-Up
Provides school-based mental health and other support services to teenagers with serious behavior and educational issues.
Nativity Mission Center
Runs a values-based middle school for boys on the Lower East Side that offers an extended day, extended year schedule.
New York City Center for Charter School Excellence
Supports charter schools with planning grants and technical support.
New York City Mission Society
Operates a Carrera after-school program in Harlem to reduce teenage pregnancy.
Northside Center for Child Development
Provides innovative psycho-educational services to children with emotional problems or development delays.
Opportunity Charter School
Educates middle and high school students, many in special education, who arrive reading three to five years behind grade level.
Partnership With Children
Provides year-round academic and mental-health counseling services to underperforming students at more than 14 sites throughout the city, including three elementary schools funded by Robin Hood.
Promise/Center for Attention and Learning Disorders (CALD)
Provides sophisticated neuropsychological evaluations of low-income children with special needs – an essential step in qualifying them for government-subsidized services.
Ryken Educational Center
Offers a rigorous, college preparatory education to boys with learning disabilities.
School of One, Fund for Public Schools
Harnesses technology and on-line materials to create individualized math instruction for sixth graders.
Science Lab at Middle School 88
Builds a science lab tied to the innovative environment-based school-wide curriculum at a Brooklyn middle school.
SCO Family of Services: North Queens Community High School
Operates a “transfer” high school for drop-outs and other students on the verge of academic failure, with the goal of getting them a high school diploma.
South Brooklyn Community High School—Good Shepherd Services
Operates a "last-chance" high school for former dropouts and students at risk of academic failure.
Success Charter Network
Operates four elementary schools in Harlem, each expanding through grade 8 over time. The network will open three more K-8 schools in 2010-2011, eventually growing to 40 schools.
Teach for America
Recruits and trains over 100 recent graduates from selective colleges to teach in New York City charter schools each year.
Teacher U
Trains master teachers, leading to certification, by emphasizing practical skills for managing classrooms as well as curricular content.
Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change
Established college advisement program and bridges academic and social programs for students in this grade seven to twelve public school.
Turnaround for Children
Offers school-based counseling to children and their families in the Bronx through a network of mental-health professionals working with teachers and administrators.
Uncommon Schools
Operates a network of 10 charter schools in Brooklyn, including a high school that opened in fall 2009, whose goal is to set the standard by which to judge organizations that oversee multiple charter schools.
Urban Arts Partnership
Developed Fresh Prep, an innovative curriculum using rhyme and music that significantly increases the pass rate of students at New Design High School on the Global History Regents exam.
Urban Assembly Academy for Arts and Letters
Offers an intensive, research-based remedial reading program for middle school students in Brooklyn.
Urban Assembly School for Law & Justice
Runs an individualized program to steer high school students into college.
West Brooklyn Community High School—Good Shepherd Services
Operates an alternative high school for drop-outs or truant students on the verge of academic failure.
Young Woman’s Leadership Network/CollegeBound Initiative
Boosts the percentage of students at traditional high schools who enroll in and graduate from college by matching them with appropriate colleges and helping them secure financial aid.
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