Former city students help current students afford college
Former city public school students are calling on New Yorkers to help current city students afford a college education.
Harlem Alumni Fund Local Students: Community Scholarships Boost Elementary School Futures!
NYC Public School Alumni from Harlem, in collaboration with NYC Kids RISE, today announced the 2024-2025 launch and significant expansion of the NYC Public School Alumni Community Scholarships initiative.
Queens Gazette: ‘Wave Makers’ Launch Splashdown in Jackson Heights
Things are going swimmingly in Jackson Heights this summer, where parents and youngsters are taking advantage of a program called “Wave Makers” that will provide 2,600 New York City second graders with free swim lessons. The new pilot program is the result of a public-private partnership between the city and nonprofit organizations including Asphalt Green, […]
NY Daily News: NYC student-athlete swims in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games
New York City-based swimmer Adell Sabovic, 22, competed Tuesday in the 100-meter freestyle at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games, representing his family’s home country of Kosovo. After his race, he thanked Asphalt Green for his success. Asphalt Green made waves this year when it announced a public-private partnership with the City Council and the Gray Foundation […]
NBC News: Holocaust museum will host free field trips for eighth graders in New York City public schools
A Holocaust museum in New York City will offer free educational field trips to eighth grade students in public schools in a program announced Thursday aimed at combating antisemitism. The program will allow up to 85,000 students at traditional public schools and charter schools to tour Manhattan’s Museum of Jewish Heritage over the next three years, […]
NYT: N.Y.C. Public Schools Will Send 8th Graders to Visit Holocaust Museum
New York City plans to send eighth-grade students from across the city on field trips to the Museum of Jewish Heritage as part of an effort to address antisemitism. The program, part of a $2.5 million public-private partnership to address antisemitism, will be seeded with $1 million from a foundation run by Jon Gray, the […]
The Philanthropy 50: an Exclusive Chronicle Ranking of Who Gives the Most to Charity
America’s biggest donors gave more than $11.9 billion in 2023. This year’s report features our analysis of the list, giving trends among megadonors, and a look at their giving to and from their foundations and donor-advised funds in 2023. The report highlights some of the country’s most interesting philanthropists, including a look at how those who will dominate big […]
Penn’s BRCA cancer vaccine trial aims to prevent the disease in healthy people.
Penn researchers believe it is possible to protect people with a BRCA gene mutation from cancer with the prick of a needle, instead of aggressive surgeries and stressful screening regimens that aren’t guaranteed to prevent disease. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
Swim Lessons for N.Y.C. Children Were at Risk. A Billionaire Helped Out.
During a period of painful budget cuts, New York City lawmakers secured private funding to pay for free swim lessons for 2,000 second graders starting in June.
She’s Going Into 6th Grade and Already Saving for College
A New York City program encourages children to save from kindergarten. Caileigh is one of nearly 3,300 rising sixth graders who were given their own college savings accounts for the 2017-18 academic year, when Caileigh entered kindergarten. Collectively, they have banked $1.26 million for college in NYC Scholarship Accounts since then. That works out to an […]