The Philadelphia Education Fund

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2009 to Jun 30, 2010

Signed

May 9, 2011

Return Version

2009v1.7

Gross Receipts

$7,584,533

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

The Ed Fund assists students to Access and Succeed in postsecondary education: + College Access Program supports over 10,000 students and adults annually by providing guidance and resources that make college an achievable goal. + Philadelphia Scholars Program awards "Last Dollar" scholarships for College Access participants in good standing at accredited colleges and universities across the country. Since 1990, the Philadelphia Scholars Program has awarded nearly $9 million in "Last Dollar" scholarships to more than 1,800 College Access students in good standing, for up to six years, at accredited colleges and universities across the country. In the last year, the Program supported nearly 300 students with $1 million in college scholarships. + Student Success Centers, a partnership between the Ed Fund's College Access Program and the School District of Philadelphia, assists students by creating a deep and sustainable college-going culture within local neighborhood high schools. + A strategic partnership with Graduate! Philadelphia, which provides college-going services to adults who have started, but not finished, college.

Activity 3

The Ed Fund Engages and Informs public school advocates through its civic engagement efforts: + The Small Schools Project which partners with youth-led organizations to provide advocacy and leadership skills to support the transformation of low performing large neighborhood high schools into high performing small high schools. Through this Project, the community has influenced issues such as building location, capital budgets, building design, educational programming, and school leadership. + Community Partnership for Neighborhood Reform encourages parents and community members to take action in the school reform process and seek improvements in their neighborhood high schools. + Advocating with other statewide organizations for equitable and adequate school funding. + The Education First Compact, a well-organized, engaged and highly interactive group, which provides a focused and forceful forum for discussion and advocacy in regard to issues that are timely and critical to the academic well-being of Philadelphia public school students, leading to emergence of a public voice that has impacted teachers' contracts, site-based teacher selection and effective teaching.

Filer

EIN

22-2567982