Leveling the Playing Field

A-List is committed to offering its exceptional services to teens and young adults who may not otherwise have access to quality SAT instruction, college advising, and academic instruction. As part of its ongoing effort to serve these communities, we have partnered with Graham Windham, Year Up, and the Boys and Girls Club to offer courses that will help these college-bound students achieve their goals. We intend to expand the services we provide in the non-profit sector and are exploring additional partnerships with national and community-based non-profit organizations.

Inquiries from interested non-profit organizations are enthusiastically welcomed and should be directed to Lisa Stella, the Director of Nonprofit Programs (lisas@alisteducation.com).

Below are brief descriptions of some of the non profit organizations we work with:

Graham Windham

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Graham Windham is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian voluntary child care agency providing a comprehensive range of services and resources to families and children in the New York metropolitan area. Graham Windham's mission is to help underserved children overcome obstacles on the path to self-sufficiency by giving children the skills to succeed, supporting and strengthening their families and, when necessary, supplementing their families. Graham Windham offers the city's most needy children and families a comprehensive system of multidisciplinary services. The programs provide early and consistent help to overcome circumstances that can put a child's prospects for learning and maturing at risk, prohibit a family from staying together, and impede a community's capacity to thrive. Graham Windham's goal is to help each child and family achieve a stable, secure, permanent home environment. In addition, the Agency will prepare families and children to assume long-term independence and self-sufficiency.

Year Up

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Year Up is s a one-year, intensive training program that provides urban young adults, aged 18-24, with a unique combination of technical and professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend and corporate apprenticeship. Year Up has been extremely successful in empowering these young adults to seek full time employment and higher education.

Grenville Baker Boys & Girls Club

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Boys and Girls Club's mission, the movement's reason for being, is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Four key characteristics define the essence of a Boys & Girls Club. All are critical in exerting positive impact on the life of a child. First, the Boys & Girls Club is a place - an actual neighborhood-based building - designed solely for youth programs and activities. Second, many Clubs are open every day, after school and on weekends, when kids have free time and need positive, productive outlets. Third, every Club has full-time, trained youth development professionals, providing positive role models and mentors. Volunteers provide key supplementary support. Last, Clubs reach out to kids who cannot afford, or may lack access to, other community programs. Annual membership dues are low, averaging $5 to $10 per year.

Harlem Children's Zone

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In 1997, the agency began a network of programs for a 24-block area: the Harlem Children's Zone Project. In 2007, the Zone Project grew to almost 100 blocks and served 7,400 children and over 4,100 adults. Over the years, the agency introduced several ground-breaking efforts: in 2000, The Baby College parenting workshops; in 2001, the Harlem Gems pre-school program; also in 2001, the HCZ Asthma Initiative, which teaches families to better manage the disease; in 2004, the Promise Academy, a high-quality public charter school; and in 2006, an obesity program to help children stay healthy. Under the visionary leadership of its President and CEO, Geoffrey Canada, HCZ continues to offer innovative, efficiently run programs that are aimed at doing nothing less than breaking the cycle of generational poverty for the thousands of children and families it serves.

New Yorkers For Children

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New Yorkers For Children (NYFC) was founded in 1996 by former Commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services Nicholas Scoppetta, as the non-profit partner to Children's Services. Over the past twelve years, donations from individuals, corporations, and foundations have enabled us to support the child welfare community as a whole, as well as those programs that focus on the individual needs of young people in foster care. NYFC has developed programs that make a difference in the lives of young people including college scholarships, tutoring programs, mentoring, and networking opportunities.

Parsons The New School for Design

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A pioneer in art and design education since its founding in 1896, Parsons The New School for Design has cultivated outstanding artists, designers, scholars, businesspeople, and community leaders for more than a century. Today, when design thinking is increasingly being employed to solve complex global problems, Parsons is leading new approaches to art and design education. At the Academy, students develop skills in drawing, painting, animation design, portfolio development, product design and graphic design. Parsons also offers a Certificate Program for students in grades 9-12 who plan to apply to colleges of art and design. Participants entering the 12th grade can enroll in a portfolio course to prepare for college admission. In the summer, the Academy offers two-week long intensive courses. In addition, pre-college students age 16 or older may also enroll in Parsons Summer Intensive Studies programs in either New York or Paris for college credit. The Parsons Pre-College Academy sharpens students’ natural talent and supplements their school's arts education.

The Parsons Scholars program is a three-year program for New York City public school sophomores. Through this program, student scholars study design at the college level, develop the skills necessary to gain admittance to art and design colleges, and explore the range of design career choices.