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SEO CLASS GIFT
INITIATIVE
7/30/2011
Final Docket Presentation
Progress to date…
• Researched 100+ Organizations in New York City
• Narrowed down to list of 20 to visit
• Drafted Metrics to abide by
• Conducted site visits all around New York
• Narrowed it down to a final docket of 10 organizations
What’s next?
Remember, you can only vote once you donate!
Presenting…
Blue Engine
City Squash
Let’s Get Ready
Peer Health Exchange
America Scores
Everybody Wins
Donors Choose
Advocates
East Harlem
Global Action Project
Final Docket for Voting
Overview
Mission: To harness the power of service to advance educational equity and excellence in
America.
During one-year terms of service, teams of Blue
Engine Fellows—recent college grads—work to
accelerate academic achievement in high-need
public high schools.
Blue Engine recruits, selects, trains, and supports
recent college graduates who dedicate one
year of service to accelerate academic
achievement in high-need public high schools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss_O87_9_SI
The Numbers
Annual Budget: $600,000
What can $5,000- $7,000 do? Provide 810
hours of high quality, high dose instruction for
high school students in the classroom
Percent of students served within a school:
100%
Rather than dispersing individuals across multiple sites, Blue
Engine Fellows are placed in school-based teams. They take
on entire grade levels one by one with the goal of creating
critical masses of students who acquire the academic skills
they will need to succeed in college and complete their
degrees on time.
First Year Results
First Year Results
Academics: CitySquash demands a lot of its students. Their goal is
to foster a love of learning and help them get – or stay – on track
to attend college.
Squash: because squash is a small sport in America, winning
scholarships to prep schools and colleges through squash is a
realistic goal for many of our players.
Mission: Enabling at-risk
youth from the Bronx to
fulfill their academic, athletic
and personal potential.
Mentoring: Each student is matched with an adult in the community
who serves as a mentor.
Travel: Through squash, members have the opportunity to
explore the world beyond the Bronx.
Nutrition: Seminars to the students and their
parents on the importance of making smart
dietary choices
Employment: CitySquash provides our
high school and college students with the
opportunity to explore their career
interests and find gainful employment.
The Numbers
125 elementary, middle high school and college students are
enrolled in CitySquash
84 percent is the academic average of the CitySquash middle school team
38 CitySquash students were admitted to selective parochial and independent high
schools
$5 million in financial aid have been won by CitySquashers attending prep schools
49 national urban squash titles have been won by CitySquashers
20 states in America have been visited by our students
on CitySquash-funded trips
7 European countries have been visited by our students
on CitySquash-funded trips
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Mission Statement
 to expand college access for motivated, low-income high school students by
providing FREE SAT preparation and college admission counseling.
Cost Measure
 $50: books and materials for one Let's Get Ready student
 $500: sponsors one Let's Get Ready student entirely
Success Rate
 Over 90% of Let's Get Ready students go directly to college after high school.
 On average, LGR students increase their SAT scores by 110 points
Budget
 About $1.8 Mil
Target Population
 Low-income students who are first-generation college applicants
Community Involvement
 1st generation college students, sets a great precedent for younger peers
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Mission
 give teenagers the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions
 training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools
that lack health education
What Our Contribution Can Do
 Fully fund one class of 30 students
Success Rate
 90% of PHE high school students said they will use something they learned from PHE
workshops to make a healthy decision in the future
 74% of PHE high school students said they had already used something they learned from
PHE workshops to make a healthy decision during the six months the program ran
Results and measurements of success
 PHE high school students made statistically significant increases in their health knowledge,
with a 16% improvement from Pre-Test to Post-Test
Budget: Roughly around $3M, with only four full time staff employees
Target Population: 9th grade high school students that lack health education and in which the
majority of the students live at or below the poverty line
Principals report higher attendance on PHE course days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKlxZEoAnLE
Soccer increases physical fitness and teaches students
lessons in sportsmanship, discipline, problem solving,
and teamwork.
Writing poetry teaches students to develop creative
writing and speaking skills. It also provides an outlet
for students to voice personal issues and develop
emotionally.
These experiences help motivate students to believe
in themselves and invest in their education.
Target Population: Schools with 80% + students on free or reduced lunch
Currently Serving: 5,000 youth in 14 cities Nationwide
Results:
Health and Fitness:
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Lower levels of Body Mass Index (BMI)
Increased levels of physical activity
Education and Literacy: Average writing proficiency Increase/yr.
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Females: 18 % improvement
Males: 33 % improvement
Youth Development
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Increased frequency of daytime classroom attendance during the America SCORES season
Increased reporting of feelings of self-confidence, self-efficacy, and enjoyment of learning
$5,000 = We can sponsor 5 or more students next academic year!
The mission is to increase children’s prospects for success
in school and life though one-to-one reading
experiences with caring adults.
Power Lunch: Lunchtime literacy and mentoring
program proven to improve reading skills and
attitudes.
Pages to Popcorn: incorporates 6 books into a
summer curriculum where children meet to read
and then watch the movie as a group.
Build a Book: Students learn about specific book
areas and incorporate it into their own book which
is completed at the end of 6 weeks.
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Target Population: Elementary School Students
60+ Corporate Partners, Participating Organizations and
Universities including:
Bank of America, UBS, ING, Morgan Stanley, Banco Popular &
New York Mets
$5000= Build a book program for 40 students
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Includes New Books, Supplies, Instructor, and Snacks
350 new books for students
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Average of $10/book including shipping and handling fees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9QRz49VMkU&feature=related
Quick Facts:
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$17.7M donated to DonorsChoose in 2010
93.9% of donations goes towards projects
In the past 10 years, DonorsChoose has impacted
75,000 students
Our donation could make a HUGE impact:
 Potentially
students!
aid 16 New York classrooms or nearly 500
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Individual Case Advocacy: 6,200 people
Workshops: 5,650 people
Helpline: 5,000 calls
Projects: Various
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Operating budget: $4.5 million
Fundraising expenses 9%
 Management and general expenses 4%
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Areas for growth
 Expanding
helpline hours
 Adding full-time staff members
Giving kids the academic and enrichment opportunities they would have if they
were born 20 blocks south, through
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High school program: College readiness
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K-8: Building literacy and math skills
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Family support: Counseling and workshops
Total Functional Expenses: $2,767,535
Money spent directly on services: 71.4%
Areas for growth
o Plans to double elementary program this year
o Want to serve alumni
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Mission: to work with young people most affected by injustice to build the
knowledge, tools, and relationships needed to create media for community power,
cultural expression, and political change
Works with 14-21 year olds in 50 schools across the city (mostly outside of
Manhattan)
Sampling of programs: Urban Voices, Media in Action, Youth Breaking Borders,
SupaFriends, College and Career Preparation, On-site Counseling
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Budget: $600,000; six full-time staff members; four part-time
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Each program $40 K - $65 K
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Visible impact for donation: Split donation evenly
across all programs, buy new camera kits, get new
editing station, MTA cards, food supplies
Impact of activities
 92%
say they learn about social justice
 100% have learned to work in a group
 Have helped media skills of students build over years,
especially many of those who say three to four years
 Have reached about 1,000 young people (65-70 per year)
http://www.youtube.com/user/GlobalActionProject
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Through strategic partnerships and outreach, their youthproduced media are seen by annual audiences numbering
200,000 and are used by organizers and educators in
curricula and community campaigns for social justice.
Films have made it into festivals for even wider community
engagement
White House has honored G.A.P. for its effectiveness in
developing creativity and fostering academic success by
engaging young people in the arts and humanities.
Scholars Program
SEO Scholars Overview
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Currently serves 365 students attending over 100 public high schools
Scholars take part in 720 additional hours of training in critical reading,
critical writing, vocabulary, grammar, and math
In 2009 and 2010, SEO 12th grade scholars scored as high or higher than
their counterparts on the SAT
The 2011 class earned $1.7M in scholarships and awards
All 2011 scholars were accepted to a four-year college, including:
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Dartmouth College
Cornell University
University of Michigan
Skidmore College