Organization Overview: Since its founding in 1989, New Visions has been at the heart of groundbreaking, real improvement in New York City public schools. Today, New Visions partners with a core network of 71 district schools and nine charter high schools—serving more than 40,000 students in all five boroughs. Additionally, New Visions provides educators with the tools and training they need to analyze student performance, diagnose problems, and design solutions to improve instruction.

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Investment Focus: Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain focused on developing a turnaround model for struggling urban schools and implementing a team-based training approach to transform school culture. Find Out More

Organization Overview: Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit organization that operates 54 outstanding urban public charter schools in five cities serving over 19,000 students. Uncommon aims to close the achievement gap and prepare low-income students to graduate from college. The organization’s reach, coupled with its outstanding academic results, makes Uncommon one of the largest and highest-performing charter management organizations in the country.

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Investment Focus: With support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain, Uncommon launched Uncommon Impact—a newer arm of the organization that is committed to sharing the techniques, skills and practices of high-performing teachers and leaders with educators around the world. The primary goal of Uncommon Impact is to share Uncommon’s work in ways that most effectively contribute to the academic success of students outside of Uncommon’s own network of schools. After being awarded a $1 million grant through the NYS DOE, the Uncommon Impact team trained more than 150 NYC DOE educators across 17 district schools in 2014, providing in-depth reading and math training, behavior and social-emotional coaching, and general professional development. In 2015, a partnership was formalized with the NYC DOE for Uncommon Impact to train educators from schools in Districts 19 and 23 in Brooklyn. This partnership expanded in 2016 and 2017 to train over 500 educators across four Districts (16,18, 19 and 23). Find Out More

Organization Overview: The Achievement Network (ANet) helps school leadership teams support great teaching. The organization provides its school partners with an integrated set of trainings and tools to ensure that students receive instruction that is tailored to their needs. An ANet coach works alongside school leaders to build the skills, routines and structures needed to support a strong, standards-based instructional cycle. ANet works across 29 schools in New York and over 820 schools across 31 states creating a unique ability to learn from and share learnings from educators across the country.

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Investment Focus: Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain resulted in a review of the organization’s expansion plans, product portfolio, customer segmentation strategy, and ways to deepen impact in existing markets. This review helped ANet scale its presence nationally, as well as in NYC in response to growing demand for its services. Since the start of our partnership, the organization has gone from serving 525 schools to over 800 schools. Find Out More

Organization Overview: In 2011, Relay Graduate School of Education became the first stand-alone graduate school of education to form in New York in over 80 years. Relay offers an innovative master’s degree program designed specifically to respond to the urgent demand for effective teachers, particularly in urban communities. Currently, Relay trains 3,400 current and aspiring teachers and 1,100 school leaders across 19 cities. Its programs have expanded to include master’s degrees for teachers and teaching residents, fellowships for experienced principals, and a partnership with Coursera, that has allowed the program to reach thousands of educators.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain supported the development of a framework to evaluate a range of expansion opportunities that have the potential to broaden Relay’s presence and impact over time. Bain helped Relay develop a strategic road map to include prioritization of new opportunities and resource allocation and focused on a strategy to guide the organization’s growth through 2020. Find Out More

Organization Overview: New Classrooms is an education technology and personalized learning organization founded in 2009 within the NYC DOE as “School of One.” In 2011, it launched as an independent entity with the program “Teach to One 360” to scale its approach outside the NYC DOE. The vision is to create a personalized instructional model that re-imagines the use of time, talent, tech and physical space to provide tailored and targeted math instruction based on students’ individual learning styles and needs. Since 2011, Teach to One 360 has served over 60,000 students in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Students have achieved learning gains equivalent to 1.5 years of growth.

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Investment Focus: Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain focused on researching the landscape of complementary and competing programs and understanding decision-making processes across the system. This research has informed the organization’s pricing and outreach strategy which were critical in advance of scaling operations in NYC and across the country. Find Out More

Organization Overview: College Advising Corps (CAC) is a college access and advising program that strives to increase the number of low-income and first-generation students that participate in higher education. CAC partners with 31 universities across 15 states to place well-trained, recent college graduates as “near-peer” college advisers in under-served high schools.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain supported the development of a strategy for scaling the program in New York City through partnerships with the College Board and New York City Public Schools who share the goal of improving college access and enrollment outcomes. Find Out More

Organization Overview: Children’s Aid helps children in poverty to succeed and thrive by providing comprehensive supports to children, youth, and their families in targeted high-needs New York City neighborhoods through a range of programs focusing on academic and social emotional learning, family and community, and health and nutrition. Currently, over 50,000 children and their families are served through 100+ programs across all five boroughs.

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Investment Focus: Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain focused on refining strategy and codifying a model for Children’s Aid’s network of community schools and developing an organizational change management plan. Find Out More

Organization Overview: The Postsecondary Success Collaborative incubated at KIPP is a collaboration between three leading Charter Management Organizations— currently KIPP, Achievement First and Prospect Schools*, who serve over 140,000 K-12 students in more than 350 charter schools across the United States.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain supported the launch of a coalition to develop strategies focused on college completion, career transitions, and alternative pathways for alumni across all three organizations.

*Original collaborative included Uncommon Schools and not Prospect Schools. Uncommon has since left the collaborative.

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Organization Overview: The City University of New York (CUNY) is the nation’s largest urban public education system with a mission to provide a pathway to the middle class. CUNY has more than 220,000 degree students across 25 colleges with over a million graduates living in the NYC metro area; more than 75% of enrollees are students of color and 61% of students do not have a parent that graduated from college.

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Investment Focus: Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain focused on a planning effort with the Career Success team, now the Office of Careers and Industry Partnerships. to dramatically improve the career outcomes of CUNY alumni, with a focus on key factors for employee engagement, along with a plan for capacity building and scaling of employer driven pilots. Find Out More About CUNY

Organization Overview: New Visions was a recipient of the Partnership Grant for a second time in 2021. Since its founding in 1989, New Visions has been at the heart of groundbreaking, real improvement in New York City public schools. Today, New Visions partners with a core network of 71 district schools and nine New Visions charter high schools—serving more than 40,000 students in all five boroughs. Additionally, they provide educators with the tools and training they need to analyze student performance, diagnose problems, and design solutions to improve instruction including the Portal, a comprehensive school management and student planning tool used by schools citywide.

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Investment Focus: In 2021, support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain focused on growth and expansion of the Portal’s user base, along with development of the New Visions Career Academies, which provide students with work-based learning experiences in partnership with “best in class” firms to ensure students gain career-readiness skills and exposure to high-growth sectors such as finance, health, and tech. Find Out More

Organization Overview: Khan Academy’s mission is to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Khan offers a range of learning resources across multiple disciplines—including math, science, history, economics and more—to more than 130+ million users in 190 countries.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain supported the creation of a strategic plan for Khan Academy’s District offerings focused on codifying Khan’s approach to scale its district partnership implementation, along with deepening the use of Khan Academy in classrooms serving under-resourced students. Find Out More

Organization Overview: Jumpstart is a national early education organization working toward the day every child in America enters kindergarten prepared to succeed. Since 1993, they have trained more than 58,000 college students and community volunteers to provide language, literacy, and social-emotional programming for 133,000 preschool children in under-resourced communities nationwide.

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Investment Focus: Centerbridge Foundation and Bain support focused on the development of an Accelerated Workforce Program to address the national early childhood education (ECE) workforce shortage. Jumpstart’s AWP aims to increase the number of certified ECE educators nationwide ensuring more children start their education on track and with access to high-quality early learning. Find Out More

Organization Overview: Literacy Academy Collective (LAC) is building a network of NYC Public Schools focused on helping struggling readers achieve academic success. LAC plans to establish schools in high-needs districts across the five boroughs, making specialized instruction accessible to low-income students who have diagnosed and undiagnosed reading disabilities, leading to stronger academic and career outcomes.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain will support LAC to create a blueprint for its district school model through identifying and testing operations systems, financial models, and outcomes. Find Out More

Organization Overview: Literacy Academy Collective (LAC) is building a network of NYC Public Schools focused on helping struggling readers achieve academic success. LAC plans to establish schools in high-needs districts across the five boroughs, making specialized instruction accessible to low-income students who have diagnosed and undiagnosed reading disabilities, leading to stronger academic and career outcomes.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain will support LAC to create a blueprint for its district school model through identifying and testing operations systems, financial models, and outcomes. Find Out More

Following a research initiative to explore the potential for innovative new financing vehicles to drive social change in the UK, the Centerbridge Foundation and On Purpose, a UK-based leadership training organization, partnered to develop a program called Executive On Purpose, which is tailored to the specific challenges facing social sector CEOs. The six-month pilot launched in February 2017 with an initial cohort of nine leaders representing a range of organizations and issue areas. In addition to grant funding, support from the Centerbridge Foundation provided tuition assistance to a group of leaders focused on education and career readiness interventions. On Purpose launched its third CEO program in September 2018. Find Out More

Organization Overview: Action Tutoring (AT) partners volunteer tutors with low-income students to help them achieve academic attainment and enable them to progress in education, employment and training.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain supported AT to develop their 2018-2021 growth plan at 20% per year to reach 3,600 young people with the help of 1,800 volunteers. With this support, in 2021, AT exceeded its growth plans, reaching more than 5,500 young people with the help of around 2,700 volunteers. Find Out More

Organization Overview: City Gateway provides education, work experience, training and coaching to support disadvantaged young people so they can gain the skills and qualifications needed to access sustainable employment. Since 2019, 706 young people have been trained, securing jobs and apprenticeships that transformed their lives and career prospects.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation investment and Bain’s support focused on defining a sustainable and scalable apprenticeship program, supported by a robust channel strategy and plan for delivery and scale. In 2021, City Gateway exceeded its goal of serving 200 students and is on track to reach 600 students in 2023. Find Out More

Organization Overview: AllChild (formerly West London Zone (WLZ) supports children from underserved areas, ages 3-18, who are at risk in some combination of attainment, mental well-being and school attendance. Currently West London Zone is in 55 schools serving 1,675 students.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain support focused on developing a growth strategy and three-year plan to deepen WLZ’s footprint. In 2021, WLZ exceeded its goal of reaching 1,300 students and is on target to reach 3,000 young people by 2025. Find Out More

Organization Overview: Created and run by Impetus, the Connect Fund aims to build a cohort of high-impact organizations focused on closing the youth unemployment gap faced by young people from diverse backgrounds in the UK.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain support focused on developing a growth strategy and plan to launch the Connect Fund, which as of 2024, is partnering with six charities. The Fund organizes leadership development programs that support talent from ethnic minority backgrounds to progress into senior leadership roles and contribute to the national conversation. They also hold key stakeholder convenings across Government, employers and donors, focused on sharing new learnings on interventions that can make a big impact. Find Out More

Organization Overview: Football Beyond Borders (FBB) supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who are disengaged at school, helping them complete school with the skills needed to successfully transition into adulthood. Currently FBB is delivering 126 projects to 2,000 young people, and last year 95% of their students finished the year in school.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain support focused on creating a growth and pricing strategy so FBB could expand to new cities and scale their impact across the UK. Find Out More

Organization Overview: The Tutor Trust (TTT) provides targeted tutoring to students in schools across the UK. They recruit and train tutors, predominantly students and graduates from local universities, and place them in state schools. Tutors receive extensive training and competitive compensation, which guarantees they provide a professional service, which is essential as the UK National Tutoring Program sunsets. In the last year TT supported 6,480 young people at 156 schools and delivered 7628 tutoring programs leading to .71 to .74 grades of progress on GCSE English and Math.

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Investment Focus: The Centerbridge Foundation and Bain support will allow Tutor Trust to scale programming and expand their work to new schools and geographies. Find Out More

Organization Overview: The Jon Egging Trust (JET) supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to develop social and emotional skills, re-engage with learning, improve their grades and maximize their potential. JET’s experiential learning programs provide long-term support and access to workplaces and STEM environments and the role models within them.

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Investment Focus: Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain is focused on scaling JET’s signature Blue Skies program across the UK through exploring geographic expansion, funding models, and employment programs for post-16s. Find Out More

Organization Overview: The Jon Egging Trust (JET) supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to develop social and emotional skills, re-engage with learning, improve their grades and maximize their potential. JET’s experiential learning programs provide long-term support and access to workplaces and STEM environments and the role models within them.

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Investment Focus: Support from the Centerbridge Foundation and Bain is focused on scaling JET’s signature Blue Skies program across the UK through exploring geographic expansion, funding models, and employment programs for post-16s. Find Out More