Since its founding in 1989, New Visions has been at the heart of groundbreaking, real improvement in New York City public schools. Today, New Visions partners with a core network of 81 secondary schools—71 DOE schools and 10 New Visions Charter High Schools—serving more than 40,000 students in all five boroughs. Nearly 1,600 DOE schools citywide have access to the Portal by New Visions, a comprehensive school management and student planning tool that New Visions developed in collaboration with educators citywide. Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain will focus on expanding support to new schools and defining a scalable approach to capacity building and effective use of the Portal by New Visions. Find Out More

Uncommon Schools (Uncommon) is a nonprofit organization that operates 57 outstanding urban public charter schools in six cities serving over 21,000 students. Uncommon aims to close the achievement gap and prepare low-income students to graduate from college. The organization’s reach, coupled with its outstanding academic results, makes Uncommon one of the largest and highest-performing charter management organizations in the country. With support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain, Uncommon launched Uncommon Impact—a newer arm of the organization that is committed to sharing the techniques, skills and practices of high-performing teachers and leaders with educators around the world. The primary goal of Uncommon Impact is to share Uncommon’s work in ways that most effectively contribute to the academic success of students outside of Uncommon’s own network of schools. After being awarded a $1 million grant through the NYS DOE, the Uncommon Impact team trained more than 150 NYC DOE educators across 17 district schools in 2014, providing in-depth reading and math training, behavior and social-emotional coaching, and general professional development. In 2015, a partnership was formalized with the NYC DOE for Uncommon Impact to train educators from schools in Districts 19 and 23 in Brooklyn. This partnership expanded in 2016 and 2017 to train over 500 educators across four Districts (16,18, 19 and 23). Find Out More

The Achievement Network (ANet) helps school leadership teams support great teaching. The organization provides its school partners with an integrated set of trainings and tools to ensure that students receive instruction that is tailored to their needs. An ANet coach works alongside school leaders to build the skills, routines and structures needed to support a strong, standards-based instructional cycle. The coach draws on ANet’s high-quality resources, including interim assessments designed to support learning, an online platform for analyzing data and other instructional tools. Founded in 2005, ANet works across 29 schools in New York and over 820 schools across 31 states. This national network of schools gives ANet a unique ability to learn from and share the wisdom of educators from across the country. Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain resulted in a review of the organization’s expansion plans, product portfolio and customer segmentation strategy, and of ways to deepen its impact in existing markets. This review has helped ANet scale its presence nationally, as well as in NYC in response to growing demand for its services. When our partnership first began, the organization served 525 schools but has since expanded to serve over 800 schools. Find Out More

In 2011, Relay Graduate School of Education (Relay) became the first stand-alone graduate school of education to form in New York in over 80 years. Relay offers an innovative master’s degree program designed specifically to respond to the urgent demand for effective teachers, particularly in urban communities. Currently, Relay trains 3,400 current and aspiring teachers and 1,100 school leaders across 19 cities and its programs have expanded to include master’s degrees for teachers and teaching residents, fellowships for experienced principals and a partnership with Coursera, a provider of online open-enrollment courses, that has allowed the program to reach thousands of educators around the world. Relay requires graduate students to demonstrate proficiency and achievement in their classrooms while earning a degree. In the long term, Relay seeks to transform how educators are prepared across the country. The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain supported the development of a framework to evaluate a range of expansion opportunities that have the potential to broaden Relay’s presence and impact over time. Bain helped Relay develop a strategic road map to include prioritization of new opportunities and resource allocation and focused on a strategy to guide the organization’s growth through 2020. Find Out More

New Classrooms is an education technology and personalized learning organization founded in 2009 within the NYC DOE as “School of One.” In 2011, it launched as an independent entity with the program “Teach to One 360” to scale its approach outside the NYC DOE. The vision is to create a personalized instructional model that re-imagines the use of time, talent, tech and physical space to provide tailored and targeted math instruction based on students’ individual learning styles and needs. Since 2011, Teach to One 360 has served over 60,000 students in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Students have achieved learning gains equivalent to 1.5 years of growth. Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain focused on researching the landscape of complementary and competing programs and understanding decision-making processes across the system. This research has informed the organization’s pricing and outreach strategy which were critical in advance of scaling operations in NYC and across the country. Find Out More

College Advising Corps (CAC) is a college access and advising program that strives to increase the number of low-income and first-generation students that participate in higher education. CAC partners with 30 universities across 17 states to place well-trained, recent college graduates as college advisers in 747 under-served high schools. The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain supported the development of a strategy for scaling the program in NYC through partnerships with the College Board and the NYC DOE, who share the goal of improving college access and enrollment outcomes. Find Out More

Children’s Aid’s mission is to alleviate the stresses of poverty and provide children with resources and experiences that will enable them to succeed and thrive. The team provides comprehensive support to children and their families in targeted high-needs NYC neighborhoods. Currently, 50,000 children and their families are served through over 100 programs across 40 locations in NYC. Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain focused on improving Children’s Aid’s network of community schools and exploring opportunities to improve student outcomes, a top priority in the organization’s strategic plan. Find Out More

We have supported a collaboration between three leading Charter Management Organizations—KIPP, Achievement First and Uncommon. Together, these CMOs serve over 140,000 K-12 students in more than 350 charter schools across the United States. The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain supported the launch of a coalition to develop strategies focused on college completion and career transitions for alumni across organizations. Find Out More

CUNY is the nation’s largest urban public education system with a mission to provide a pathway to the middle class for students. CUNY has more than 220,000 degree students across 25 colleges with over a million graduates living in the NYC metro area; more than 75% of enrollees are students of color and 61% of students do not have a parent that graduated from college. Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain focused on a planning effort with the Career Success team to dramatically improve the career outcomes of CUNY alumni. The work included key factors for employee engagement, a plan for capacity building and scaling of employer driven pilots.

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Since its founding in 1989, New Visions has been at the heart of groundbreaking, real improvement in New York City public schools. Today, New Visions partners with a core network of 81 secondary schools—71 DOE schools and 10 New Visions Charter High Schools—serving more than 40,000 students in all five boroughs. Nearly 1,600 DOE schools citywide have access to the Portal by New Visions, a comprehensive school management and student planning tool that New Visions developed in collaboration with educators citywide. Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain will focus on expanding support to new schools and defining a scalable approach to capacity building and effective use of the Portal by New Visions. Find Out More

Created in 2008 by Sal Khan, Khan Academy’s mission is to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy offers a range of learning resources across multiple disciplines—including math, science, history, economics and more—to more than 130+ million users in 190 countries. The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain supported the creation of a strategic plan for Khan Academy’s District offerings: deepening the use of Khan Academy in classrooms serving under-resourced students, codifying Khan’s approach to its district partnership implementation and developing plans to scale district work. Find Out More

Jumpstart is a national early education organization working toward the day every child in America enters kindergarten prepared to succeed. We provide language, literacy, and social-emotional programming for preschool children from under-resourced communities and promote quality early learning for all children. Since 1993, we’ve trained more than 58,000 college students and community volunteers to transform the lives of over 133,000 preschool children nationwide. Find Out More

Jumpstart is a national early education organization working toward the day every child in America enters kindergarten prepared to succeed. We provide language, literacy, and social-emotional programming for preschool children from under-resourced communities and promote quality early learning for all children. Since 1993, we’ve trained more than 58,000 college students and community volunteers to transform the lives of over 133,000 preschool children nationwide. Find Out More

Following a research initiative to explore the potential for innovative new financing vehicles to drive social change in the UK, the Centerbridge Foundation and On Purpose, a UK-based leadership training organization, partnered to develop a program called Executive On Purpose, which is tailored to the specific challenges facing social sector CEOs. The six-month pilot launched in February 2017 with an initial cohort of nine leaders representing a range of organizations and issue areas. In addition to grant funding, support from the Centerbridge Foundation provided tuition assistance to a group of leaders focused on education and career readiness interventions. On Purpose launched its third CEO program in September 2018. Find Out More

Action Tutoring (AT) partners volunteer tutors with low-income students from disadvantaged backgrounds to help them achieve a meaningful level of academic attainment with the aim of enabling students to progress in education, employment or training. Bain worked with AT to develop their 2018-2021 growth plan at 20% per year to reach 3,600 young people with the help of 1,800 volunteers by 2021. AT was accredited by the National Tutoring Program (NTP), set up under the UK government’s Education Recovery strategy in 2020. This meant that in 2021, AT exceeded its growth plans, reaching more than 5,500 young people with the help of around 2,700 volunteers. Find Out More

City Gateway provides education, work experience, training and coaching to support disadvantaged young people so they can gain the skills and qualifications needed to access sustainable employment. Since 2019, 706 young people have been trained, securing jobs and apprenticeships that transformed their lives and career prospects. Our investment and Bain’s support focused on defining a sustainable and scalable apprenticeship product, supported by a robust channel strategy and plan for delivery and future scale. In 2021, City Gateway exceeded its goal of serving 200 students and is on track to reach 600 students in 2023. Find Out More

West London Zone supports children from underserved areas, ages 3-18, who are at risk in some combination of attainment, mental well-being and school attendance. Currently West London Zone is in 45 schools serving 1,338 students. Our support is focused on developing a growth strategy and three-year scale plan to deepen West London Zone’s footprint. In 2021, WLZ exceeded its goal of reaching 1,300 students and is on target to reach 3,000 young people by 2025. Find Out More

Created and run by Impetus, the Connect Fund aims to build a cohort of high-impact organizations focused on closing the youth unemployment gap faced by young people from diverse backgrounds in the UK.  Our support is focused on developing a growth strategy and plan to launch the Connect Fund. In 2021, the Connect Fund partnered with two charities, Career Ready and Mama Youth, and aims to support four more charities in 2022 and another four in 2023. Find Out More

Football Beyond Borders supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who are disengaged at school, helping them complete school with the skills needed to successfully transition into adulthood. Currently FBB is delivering 91 projects to 1,500 young people this academic year.  Our support will focus on creating a growth and pricing strategy so FBB can scale their impact across the UK. Find Out More

Tutor Trust is a registered charity which aims to help tackle educational inequality in a unique way. Our mission is to ‘transform lives through tutoring’ by making sure every child who needs some additional academic support can access a great tutor. We operate in four city regions – Greater Manchester, Leeds, Bradford and Merseyside – and recruit and train tutors, predominantly students and graduates from local universities, in the core subjects of Maths, English and Science and place them in state schools. Our tutors are paid competitive rates and receive extensive training and ongoing support, which guarantees they provide a professional service. Find Out More

Tutor Trust is a registered charity which aims to help tackle educational inequality in a unique way. Our mission is to ‘transform lives through tutoring’ by making sure every child who needs some additional academic support can access a great tutor. We operate in four city regions – Greater Manchester, Leeds, Bradford and Merseyside – and recruit and train tutors, predominantly students and graduates from local universities, in the core subjects of Maths, English and Science and place them in state schools. Our tutors are paid competitive rates and receive extensive training and ongoing support, which guarantees they provide a professional service. Find Out More