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Over the years LEFs have helped make great strides in improving their locales and increasing the quality of their public schools. to find out more, select the year below or scroll down.
 

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2009 (Back to top)
Atlanta Education Fund (Georgia)
Published the College Access Provider Directory, created to Catalogue the non-profit organizations that work with Atlanta public school students to support their successful transition through high school and graduation from college.

Mobile Area Education Foundation (Alabama)
Hosted a Dropout Prevention Summit, convening more than 600 concerned citizens from Mobile and around the state to learn about new efforts to design and implement aggressive strategies to decrease the dropout rate, increase the rigor of course offerings and reform secondary schools system wide.

Public Education Foundation (Indiana)
Since 1987, PEF has funded a House Construction Project. The project provides valuable hands-on instruction in the building and trade industry, preparing students for employment or additional college-level education. Proceeds from the sale of each house enable PEF to fund construction of next year's house.

Voice for Education (Arizona)
The annual "Shop Your Girlfriend's Closet" fundraiser is a three-day fashion-filled clothing sale. All proceeds go back support school reform programs and local advocacy work.

2008 (Back to top)
DC VOICE (District of Columbia)
Conducted a public opinion poll that showed that the public held a lower opinion of the business community and local universities than the local public school system.

Hartford Education Foundation (Connecticut)
Since its inception in 2003, the Hartford Education Foundation has awarded 240 teacher grants totaling over $191,000.

LEED Sacramento (California)
Partnered with employers and educators to implement a pre-college engineering curriculum called Project Lead The Way (PLTW) at 15 schools. PLTW provides students with exposure to and preparation for careers in engineering – a critical element of an emerging STEM pipeline to support the development of high technology and innovation enterprises.

New Visions for Public Schools (New York)
Published its annual Family Literacy Guide, developed by a team of educators and librarians to help parents and caregivers strengthen literacy in the lives of their children from birth to grade 12.

Silicon Valley Education Foundation (California)
Launched a $3 million campaign to fund programs aimed at improving student performance in science technology engineering and math known as the Silicon Valley STEM Initiative.

2007 (Back to top)
Forward in the Fifth (Kentucky)
Created Parent Information and Resource Centers supporting parents in six counties to become more involved in their children's education by providing parent leadership training; support groups for grandparents raising their grandchildren; support for teenage parents; and workshops based on community needs, from math homework help to encouraging reading with young children.

Orange County Public Schools, Inc.
In Orlando, Florida, the Foundation for Orange County Public Schools, Inc., launched Middle School Kids, an initiative aimed at increasing the capacity of schools, communities and families to provide students with the academic, social, and emotional support they need to become productive adults.

Public Education Foundation
The city of Chattanooga hosted a two-day National Education Conference, which brought together representatives from school districts in Seattle, Milwaukee and Hamilton County, Tennessee (including PEN member, the Public Education Foundation). The group studied and discussed methods for closing achievement gaps in public schools, with a focus on the progress being made in Hamilton County. The November 7-8 “learning exchange” was sponsored by the National Education Association (NEA) Foundation. The NEA Foundation has awarded grants to these communities as part of its Closing the Achievement Gaps initiative. In Hamilton County, the Public Education Foundation administers the NEA Foundation grant for the Hamilton County Education Association and the Hamilton County Department of Education. These funds have been used to jumpstart middle school reform, beginning with a focus on the five lowest-performing middle schools.

Public Education & Business Coalition (Colorado)
Names 33 Fund for Teachers fellows. $77,000 in grants The grants support teachers as they pursue learning opportunities around the globe that will have the greatest impact in the classroom, in the academic lives of their students, and on their school communities.

San Jose Education Foundation
The San Jose Education Foundation awarded 18 teachers housing rental assistance grants in the hopes of drawing talented educators to the city's schools. The grants were distributed through the Teach Here, Live Here program, which provides $5,000 in rental assistance to help teachers pay their first and second month's rent and security deposit. Grant priority is given to new teachers in mathematics and science. One of the largest challenges San Jose superintendents face given the area’s high cost of living is attracting and retaining quality teachers.

Youth Development Commission (Michigan)
Through the PEN Middle School Skills for Life Initiative, The Commission's goal is to reach 35,000 youth by training instructors in implementation of the Life Skills curriculum, facilitating community dialogue, and creating and coordinating collaborations and partnerships.

2006 (Back to top)
Boston Plan for Excellence in Public Schools
The public school system in Boston, Massachusetts (where PEN member, the Boston Plan for Excellence in Public Schools is extremely active and effective) won the Broad Prize, the nation’s largest prize in public education. The district was awarded some $500,000 in college scholarships in recognition of their work in improving classroom performance throughout the school system, especially among poor and minority children.

Boyle Heights Learning Collaborative (California)
Coordinated the Million Word Challenge (MWC) a community-wide literacy campaign promoting a culture of literacy at home and academic achievement at school. MWC helps to connect families and schools around the joy of reading "beyond the bell" and challenges students to read MILLIONS of WORDS, outside of the classroom.

Hartford Education Foundation (Connecticut)
Hosts First Annual Hartford Education Foundation Spelling Bee raising over $24,000 for the Foundation's Teacher Grant Program.

Foundation for Madison Public Schools (Wisconsin) Initiated endowment funds for each of the 48 schools in the district and all schools have opened an endowment fund of at least $10,000 each. 22 schools have endowment balance of $20,000 or more. This Individual School Endowment Initiative is the first of its kind in the country.

Houston A+ Challenge (Texas)
Raised more than $100 million to create new school models where learning is personal, and hands-on by: partnering with 14 high schools in the 21st Century High School Redesign Initiative; Created a K-5 Fine Arts model that integrates fine arts into core academic classes; and Expanded community engagement work to include the voices and participation of high school students.

Portland Schools Foundation, Wake Education Partnership
Two member LEFs were instrumental in enacting funding measures. In Portland, Oregon, the Portland Schools Foundation worked to raise some $450,000 to fund a campaign to encourage Portland voters to approve a five-year property tax. The tax was approved in November 2006 and will provide $33 million for schools in its first year and $41.6 million in its final year. And in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Wake Education Partnership was instrumental in the November voter passage of a measure to enact the sale of $970 million in general obligation bonds to support capital improvements for the Wake County Public School System.

2005 (Back to top)
Paterson Education Fund (New Jersey)
Irene Sterling, Executive Director of the Paterson Education Fund in New Jersey, received an award for civic engagement at William Paterson University's "Celebrating Public Education: the Democratic Legacy" celebration on March 22.

The Education Partnership (Rhode Island)
Issued a report, Teacher Contracts: Restoring the Balance, that studies the impact that teacher collective bargaining agreements have on public education in Rhode Island. The report hopes to facilitate statewide dialogue that will lead to systemic change in the Rhode Island educational system.

2004 (Back to top)
Public Education Partnership Fund (Washington, DC)
Invested $550,000 in Washington, DC Public School's new initiative, the SpringBoard program, designed to improve students' academic performance in math, reading, and writing thereby better preparing students for college-level work. This initiative is a system-wide partnership between College Board and DC Public Schools.

Mon Valley Education Constortium (Pennsylvania)
Linda Croushore, executive director of the Mon Valley Education Consortium, was chosen as 1 of 12 people at the top in education in Western Pennsylvania by a recent poll conducted by the Post-Gazette. Another named on the list was frequent PEN collaborator Ron Cowell, president of the Education Policy and Leadership Center.

Achieve!Minneapolis (Minnesota)
Administering an anonymous grant of $750,000 to fulfill the needs of 16 Minneapolis Public Schools for such basics as computers, text books, library books, musical instruments, and desks. Impactschools.org, a website launched simultaneously with the gift announcement, provides an opportunity for others in the community to make tax-deductible donations to the school or program of their choice.

Nashville Public Education Foundation (Tennessee)
Established a $1,000,000 endowed fund at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University to provide for a permanent collaborative relationship between Peabody, Vanderbilt, and the Metro Nashville Public Schools. This fund will help meet the professional development needs of Metro's teachers and principals.

Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools (Nebraska)
Fund-A-Need Internet program has been named the Internet fundraising program of the year by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. The award was presented at AFP's International Fundraising Conference in Baltimore on April 3, 2005.

Alliance for Education (Washington)
Will receive part of the proceeds from Lucas Films' benefit premier of its latest film in the Star Wars series, “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” to be released in mid-May, 2005.

El Dorado Education Foundation (Arkansas)
The El Dorado Education Foundation (EDEF), led by Lila Phillips, advocated against school district mergers in the state of Arkansas that would maintain white majorities. To save costs, the state had instructed small districts to consolidate. In response, predominantly white districts tried to merge with other white districts, even if they did not share geographical borders. EDEF fought this all the way to the state school board armed with enrollment data, flipcharts, and influential endorsements. This victory was hard won and represents a major coup for anti-segregation forces in Arkansas.

2003 (Back to top)
DC VOICE (District of Columbia)
Coordinates public demonstrations against voucher proposals in Washington, DC.

Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools (Massachusetts)
Launches the Boston Teacher Residency Program in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, a teacher-training program based on the medical residency model. Student teachers are placed under the supervision of a master teacher; at the end of a 12-month residency, participants are certified in their chosen academic areas and in special education.

Durham Public Education Network (North Carolina)
Holds a community education summit—a day of workshops and community action for parents, business, the faith-based community, nonprofits, and concerned citizens—to seeks ways to improve public education and close the achievement gap in Durham’s public schools.

New Visions for Public Schools (New York)
Conducts a study, Reframing Education: The Partnership Strategy and Public Schools, for the Carnegie Corporation of New York that examines New Century High School Initiative partnerships--what they look like, how they operate and how they contribute to particular new high schools and overall high school reform.

Parents United for the DC Public Schools (Washington, DC)
Releases Leaving Children Behind: The Underfunding of DC Public Schools Building Repair and Capital Budget Needs, a report analyzing efforts to modernize outdated school buildings.

Portland Schools Foundation (Oregon)
Leads a community initiative that passes a major tax measure, ensuring three years of stability for Portland’s public schools by raising $53 million.

Public Education & Business Coalition (Colorado)
Launches HeadFirst Colorado, a quarterly magazine to foster discussion and inspire action among those interested in public education. Partners include the Donnell-Kay Foundation and Bighorn Center for Public Policy.

Public Education & Business Coalition (Colorado)
PEBC becomes the managing and fiscal agent for the Institute for Educational Excellence (IEE), an initiative designed to help schools identify and implement the specific instructional, structural, and cultural approaches that will allow their students to attain high levels of academic achievement.

The Education Foundation (South Carolina)
Launches Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS), is a summer camp for girls designed to address the shortage of women in math and science related careers.

The Public Education Foundation of Little Rock (Arkansas)
Within 7 months of its founding, awards grants totaling $100,000 to 72 teachers in 24 schools in the Little Rock School District.

2002 (Back to top)
Achieve!Minneapolis (Minnesota)
Creates an e-mentoring program, linking more than 1,000 students from Minneapolis Public Schools with mentors from local businesses and community organizations.

Alliance for Education (Washington)
Publishes Tradition to Transformation: How Seattle Reinvented its Public Schools, a six-decade history of people and events that have influenced Seattle schools.

Charlotte Advocates for Education (North Carolina)
Leads a yearlong effort to raise comprehension and awareness of the school budget; publishes and distributes more than 5,000 copies of its Community Guide to School Budgets and Community Assessment.

Citizens for the Educational Advancement of Alaska’s Children (Alaska)
Releases Tools for Success: What is an Adequate Education, based on conversations held with Native Alaskans in rural communities, to ensure that public education reflects the diverse cultures of the state.

Good Schools for All (New York)
Sponsors KIDSVENTION, paving the way for youth voices and opinions to be heard in dialogue and debate on contemporary education and civic issues.

KnowledgeWorks Foundation (Ohio)
Launches the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative, one of the nation’s most aggressive school improvement efforts, with more than $36 million from a consortium of funders.

Mon Valley Education Consortium (Pennsylvania)
Launches the Literacy for Life Initiative, a centerpiece of MVEC’s longstanding commitment to literacy development.

Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation (Oklahoma)
Announces a $1 million endowment to fund local teachers seeking national certification. The foundation will administer the privately funded endowment.

Portland Schools Foundation (Oregon)
Begins series of Action Alerts on school funding to educate voters on issues relating to public education finance reform.

San Antonio Education Partnership (Texas)
Receives the Promesa de un Futuro Brillante Award from the National Latino Children’s Institute for its exemplary programs for young Latinos.

The Alliance for World Class Education (Florida)
Launches the Management Assessment Project (MAP), a collaborative effort of the alliance, district staff, and school board, to advise the central administration on ways to become more efficient, cost effective, accountable, and supportive of all schools.

The Alliance for World Class Education (Florida)
Raises more than $4 million to open the Schultz Center for Teaching and Leadership, a state-of-the-art facility to enhance the skills of education professionals.

2001 (Back to top)
Durham Public Education Network (North Carolina)
Helps initiate passage of a $75 million bond referendum by recruiting volunteers to distribute literature and posters at voting precincts and operate a phone bank.

HC*EXCELL – The Education Foundation (Tennessee)
Facilitates a partnership between the Education Committee of the Morristown Area Chamber of Commerce, the Tennessee Technology Center of Morristown and Walters State Community College, to conduct public dialogue on education in Hamblen County.

Mobile Area Education Fund (Alabama)
Supports the Vote Yes Referendum, which passes the first property tax increase in support of public schools in decades.

Philadelphia Education Fund (Pennsylvania)
Conducts a yearlong study of teacher quality and leads the initiative to repeal Philadelphia’s teacher residency requirement.

Public Education Foundation (Tennessee)
Launches Schools for a New Society to improve 17 high schools in Hamilton County, with funding from the Carnegie Corporation.

Public Education Fund (Rhode Island)
Opens Feinstein High School for Public Service in partnership with the Providence Public School system. The performance-based school is based on values of compassion, leadership, integrity, initiative, and a
commitment to community service.

2000 (Back to top)
Chatham Education Foundation (North Carolina)
Launches a school-business partnership initiative at the county’s first educational funding summit.

Forward in the Fifth (Kentucky)
Assumes management of School-to-Careers, a statewide program offering students programs to prepare them for high-skill, high-wage careers, and increase their opportunities for further education.

Houston A+ Challenge (Texas)
Begins Houston Schools for a New Society, in partnership with the Houston school district, to redesign the city’s large, urban high schools into small, theme-based academies.

KnowledgeWorks Foundation (Ohio)
Introduces Education Matters, an annual poll of residents’ views, perceptions, hopes, and goals for education in Ohio, as a reliable resource for policymakers, community leaders, teachers, administrators, philanthropies, parents, and students.

Public School Forum of North Carolina
Launches the Young Scholars Program, an extended learning program to build the academic and personal capacity of promising youth, with funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation.

Stark Education Partnership (Ohio)
Creates Partnership 2000, an educational and cultural exchange between the Western Galilee region of Israel and Stark County.

1999 (Back to top)
KnowledgeWorks Foundation (Ohio)
Launches the Ohio College Access Network, a consortium of programs to help low-income students attend college.

Lynn Business/Education Foundation (Massachusetts)
Publishes and distributes A Community Guide to the Lynn School Budget.

Norwalk Education Foundation (Connecticut)
Launches a Teacher Technology Training Institute to help teachers integrate technology into the curriculum.
Paterson Education Fund (New Jersey) Releases Lift Every Voice*Levanta Cada Voz, a report on community conversations on education, race, and student achievement.

Public Education Partners (South Carolina)
Leads a community-wide strategic planning effort to unite the community in understanding the needs of local education.

The Chicago Public Education Fund (Illinois)
Employs a venture capital model to launch itself as an innovative LEF.

The Education Alliance (West Virginia)
Becomes the first organization in the country to link at least one business partner with every public school in a state.

1998 (Back to top)
Fund for Educational Excellence (Maryland)
Creates Achievement First, a whole-school reform model that places coaches and staff developers in elementary schools to help principals and teachers master strategies that result in improved student achievement.

Oklahoma City Public Schools Foundation (Oklahoma)
Works to get a temporary sales tax and bond issue passed to fund Project Kids, a reform plan for the Oklahoma City Public Schools.

Philadelphia Education Fund (Pennsylvania)
Implements Talent Development, a comprehensive school reform model for high-poverty high schools developed by the developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk.

The Education Fund (Florida)
Institutes Central EXPRESS (Exceptional People Renewing Education for Students and Schools), in partnership with Florida International University and the University of Miami, to generate systemic change that improves the academic performance of high school students.

Urban Education Partnership (California)
Creates +PLUS+ Urban Mathematics Collaborative, a program engaging more than 600 teachers in an effort to strengthen teacher knowledge and skills to improve student learning in mathematics.

Wake Education Partnership (North Carolina)
Conducts its first Community Assessment to determine community support for and perceptions of Wake County Public Schools. The study informs local leaders about the public’s view on issues and challenges affecting the future of Wake County Public Schools.

1997 (Back to top)
Academic Distinction Fund (Louisiana)
Evaluation of ADF mini-grants totaling $1.2 million to more than 2,000 teachers, confirms improved learning environments, increased instructional effectiveness, better student motivation and faculty morale, and more interaction between the community and the public schools. East Baton Rouge Parish student test scores equal or exceed the average in all five areas of the state graduation exam.

Houston A+ Challenge (Texas)
Creates Beacon Schools, providing funding to schools with proven records of education reform and diverse student populations. Grants encourage schools to deepen and expand schoolwide reforms, and evaluate their effectiveness.

In2Books (District of Columbia)
Creates an innovative literacy program that helps elementary students in under-resourced schools achieve a personal best.

San Francisco Education Fund (California)
Creates Equity Collaborative, a program to raise teacher awareness of gender, race, class, and culture and how these factors influence student learning. The program provides teachers with strategies, tools, and activities to address these issues through professional development, training, and coaching.

Schools of the 21st Century - The Detroit Annenberg Challenge (Michigan)
Uses a highly competitive grant making process to lay the foundation for the development of Leadership Schools and change in the Detroit Public School system.

Stark Education Partnership (Ohio)
Becomes program advisor and fiscal agent for the largest private foundation grant awarded at that time to a public school—$10 million from the Timken Foundation to support Timken High School. The grant fosters districtwide reform that removes the district from Ohio’s academic emergency designation.

1996 (Back to top)
APPLE Corps (Georgia)
Launches Technology Links, an AmeriCorps Project FIRST community outreach program that encourages parental involvement in schools by providing them with computers and computer training.

Area Education Foundation (Mississippi)
One of eight cities selected nationwide to receive funding from the Institute for Educational Leadership and Public Agenda to host town meetings for education improvement.

Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools (Massachusetts)
Implements a whole-school reform initiative in 60 of the city’s 132 public schools.
Linking Education and Economic

Development (California)
Receives a $2.2 million school-to-career grant to launch LEED as a premier workforce development organization.

Portland Schools Foundation (Oregon)
Mobilizes the 30,000-person March for Our Schools to protest K–12 budget cuts by the Oregon Legislature and led a community campaign to buy back 200 teachers that had been laid off. In a record-breaking campaign, the foundation raises $10.6 million in less
than 8 weeks.

Public School Forum of North Carolina
Issues A Profession in Jeopardy, calling on the state to strengthen teacher preparation and support. The Excellent Schools Act of 1997 addresses many of the recommendations in the report and gives North Carolinians a funded mentor program, formal orientation sessions for new teachers, and other programs that strengthen the teacher workforce.

1995 (Back to top)
Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute (California)
Together with the Oakland Unified School District and Oakland Technical High School, creates the Oakland Technology Exchange to recycle and place computers in Oakland schools and homes. Computers considered obsolete by corporate standards are diverted from landfill and refurbished by 200+ volunteers. Students and parents receive training in English, Spanish, Chinese, or Vietnamese. OTX-West delivered more than 4,000 computers in the last two years.

Allen County Local Education Fund (Indiana)
Institutes Project READS to bridge the gap between K–3 readers and nonreaders by bringing more reading materials into classrooms and helping teachers develop techniques to inspire young readers.

Hillsborough Education Foundation (Florida)
Assumes administration of Nature’s Classroom, a three-day environmental education program, after statewide budget cuts threatened its future. The foundation leads an effort to build an endowment to support the program for years to come.

New Haven Public Education Fund (Connecticut)
Kicks off its first reform effort with the launch of Library Power in New Haven.

Partners in Public Education (Tennessee)
Raises $1.25 million to help schools implement the Paideia and New American Schools whole-school teaching designs. Two years later, the 25 participating schools demonstrate student achievement gains 14.5 percent higher than comparable schools in the district.

1994 (Back to top)
Foundation for Orange County Public Schools, Inc. (Florida)
Initiates a Teacher Business Card program to emphasize the professional status of teachers, and help them communicate more effectively with students, parents, and the business community.

1993 (Back to top)
Center for Leadership in Education (Ohio)
Opens a Leadership Academy, a two-year program to hone the leadership abilities of administrators and educators.

Cleveland Initiative for Education (Ohio)
Launches the Richard W. Pogue Institute for Educational Leadership& Management to increase the personal and professional competencies of principals.

Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools (Nebraska)
Implements Illusion Theater/Project TRUST with the Illusion Theater Company—a federally funded program for Lincoln high school students addressing issues of sexual abuse and violence prevention through a theater-based approach, the first in the country.

Public Education & Business Coalition (Colorado)
Leads the team that opens the Rocky Mountain School of Expeditionary Learning, a public school based on rigorous, long-term projects integrating content knowledge, individual achievement, teamwork, and demonstration of knowledge.

1992 (Back to top)
Hillsborough Education Foundation (Florida)
Introduces Communities in Schools, a program providing resources to help young people learn, stay in school, and prepare for life.

New Visions for Public Schools (New York)
Launches a small school reform movement as the primary strategy for improving teaching and learning for New York City’s children.

1991 (Back to top)
Berkeley Public Education Foundation (California)
Launches Berkeley School Volunteers, recruiting more than 50,000 hours of volunteer time and talent since its inception.

Foundation for Orange County Public Schools, Inc. (Florida)
Introduces Teach-In to bring business and community leaders into classrooms and give students real life insight into work and careers and how important education is to their future. Held annually during American Education Week in November.

1990 (Back to top)
Mary Lyon Education Fund (Massachusetts)
Implements Understanding Nature and Yourself Through Experience, a program to build self-confidence and teach leadership skills to high school students by exploring nature and the environment.

Nashville Public Education Foundation (Tennessee)
Publishes Now I’m Five to prepare parents and children for kindergarten; Now I’m Five is circulated to directors of housing projects, day care centers, health agencies and Head Start parents.

New Visions for Public Schools (New York)
Creates a hands-on, interdisciplinary, standards-based program for New York City middle school students. Today, Champions of Active Learning is in 14 cities, thanks to funding from The J. P. Morgan Chase Foundation.

1989 (Back to top)
Public School Forum of North Carolina
Develops the public policy framework for North Carolina’s school accountability initiatives, and issues Thinking for a Living: A Blueprint for Educational Growth, a report that is instrumental in getting the 1989 School Improvement and Accountability Act passed.

The Galef Institute (California)
Develops Different Ways of Knowing, a school improvement initiative field-tested in more than 500 primary and elementary classrooms during four years of research and development. Different Ways of

Knowing Partnerships are currently underway in over 80 schools in 19 states.

Urban Education Partnership (California)
Creates the first Principal for a Day program, which becomes a national model for bringing businesses and community leaders into public schools.

1988 (Back to top)
New Visions for Public Schools (New York)
Starts the first library improvement program, which later becomes Library Power, a national program supported by PEN and the DeWitt Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund.

The Alliance for Quality Education (South Carolina)
Initiates School Board Candidate Public Forums, one of the first programs of its kind in the country, to help voters and parents understand candidates’ points of view.

1987 (Back to top)
Bridgeport Public Education Fund(Connecticut)
Creates Mentoring for Academic Achievement and College Success to link college students with high school students interested in a college education.

1984 (Back to top)
Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools (Massachusetts)
Launches Project ACCESS, the first last-dollar scholarship program to assist college-bound students.

1983 (Back to top)
The Education Alliance(West Virginia)
The West Virginia Education Fund, now The Education Alliance, becomes the first statewide education nonprofit in the country.

1980 (Back to top)
San Francisco Education Fund (California)
Develops the San Francisco Peer Resource Program for middle and high schools; the program becomes a national model.