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Joyful Readers is a relatively new initiative that aims to combat a serious problem: a lack of fluent reading skills […]
SPARK, the Children’s Museum of Rochester, sees play as a powerful tool. Think of how children play “house.” Trying on […]
Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County (BGHC) makes it possible for parents to put in their work hours, knowing […]
Brownsburg Education Foundation (BEF) was among the first public school foundations in the state of Indiana, setting a fine precedent […]
Kids On The Rise evolved out of the understanding that tutoring, in and of itself, is not a solution for […]
HEAR Scholarship Foundation is bridging the opportunity gap for low-income students, offering the encouragement and support they need to pursue […]
The National Children’s Cancer Society (NCCS) is not what you’d expect from its name. Rather than focus on fulfilling a […]
Gang Alternatives Program (GAP) is predicated on the belief that when it comes to gang prevention, you’ve got to stop […]
EDGE Teen Center is more than a community center for teens. It’s a place where teens find the warmth and […]
Friends of the Children Detroit is one of the newest chapters of this national organization that is distinguished by its […]
The North Yellowstone Education Foundation (NYEF) exists to address the unique issues of Gardiner, Montana schools. Gardiner is beautiful with […]
Connor’s Kindness Project was born during the COVID-19 pandemic, when one 12-year-old youngster, Connor Wright, decided that kids in isolation […]
The Al Wooten Jr. Youth Center was founded by a grieving mother after her son was murdered in a drive-by […]
Gentlemen By Choice (GBC) and its companion program, Ladies By Choice (LBC) believes that with support, young people can surmount […]
Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford is having a measurable impact on children in the Greater Hartford area. Helping children […]
Project LEARN believes that all students should have the same educational opportunities, no matter where they live or go to […]
Schoharie Mohawk Initiative for Science and Technology (SMIST) fills in where schools leave off, offering STEM enrichment to rural students […]
United Through Reading (UTR) serves a critical purpose; namely to help ease the stress and strain of families separated through […]
Digital4Good tackles a problem that our grandparents, and many parents, never had to face: cyberbullying. Like every other important innovation, […]
The PLUG 4 Connection seeks out students who need help, guidance, and encouragement to pursue a college education or, in […]
Code Read provides new books to young people who may not have access to books at home. The organization was […]
Taproots at Camp Walden is addressing what it sees as an “opportunity gap.” That is to say, some kids are […]
Breakthrough Manchester offers an intensive educational framework for students at risk for not being able to fill their potential. The […]
Cool Science is about making science less daunting and more intriguing (read “cool”) for kids. Why? Here are three important […]
Treasures 4 Teachers (T4T) allows teachers to provide their students with the school supplies they lack. One might think this […]
Roaring Cubs Collective (RCC) is the brainchild of two scientific researchers and research mentors who believed that more young people […]
Code Girls United is fighting some dire statistics in regard to women and girls; whereas during the 1990s 35 percent […]
MIT Spokes is a student-led organization that brings STEM festivals to underserved communities in rural areas. While giving rural students […]
H.E.R.O. for Children exists for the purpose of offering supports to children who either live with HIV/AIDS or have a […]
Freehold Borough Educational Foundation (FBEF) gives area students and their teachers much of what they lack to get a well-rounded, […]
Beating the Odds Foundation inspires children to dream and achieve those dreams, in spite of any obstacles that stand in […]
Richland-Wilkin Kinship started out as a small outreach program, then blossomed into something much larger as the wider community recognized […]
Florham Park Education Foundation (FPEF) was formed to give the students of the Florham Park school district to have the […]
The Million Dollar Teacher Project (MDTP) gets at the root cause of the failures in our education system: making sure […]
Edgefield County Youth Empowerment Center (ECYEC), as its name suggests, not only helps children stay out of trouble and in […]
Family First Foundation, as its name suggests, understands that a child’s first classroom is in the home. That makes family […]
Marietta Police Athletic League (PAL) exists for the purpose of providing disadvantaged children with mentoring and quality out-of-school programing. That, […]
Danbury Student and Business Connection (DSABC) understands that youth success makes a community a better, more prosperous place to live. […]
Pivotal steps in with services for foster youth that are critical for helping them succeed in the classroom and in […]
Thrive takes a holistic approach to strengthening families, and that approach begins with the community stepping up to help. In […]
Volunteers In Public Schools (VIPS) serves a student population with an overwhelming poverty rate. That means fewer resources are available […]
Camp Cranium is a summer camp for children with brain injuries. In many cases, the injuries occur after the child […]
Bisbee Science Exploration & Research Center is bringing hands-on, bilingual science education to children on either side of the U.S. […]
Her Idea believes in the power of young women to do important work before they ever step foot on a […]
Happy Hollow Children’s Camp hosts children from low-income homes, and also those with medical challenges, including asthma. The camp is […]
The Sydney Paige Foundation was founded by a mom who abandoned her corporate career when she saw school children who […]
Next Generation Scholars (NGS) operates in a community where students are not receiving the education they should. NGS addresses this […]
W.E. Move! Tutoring Group, Inc. differs from other organizations offering tutoring to children. For one thing, W.E. Move! offers high-level […]
One Summit has a unique program to help pediatric cancer patients fight back against the disease. The program involves having […]
Communities In Schools of Wayne County (CISWayneco) is on hand to help at-risk children, onsite, in school, on every single […]
EduTutorVA was founded out of need, the urgent need to address pandemic learning loss. There are some few efforts to […]
Moore Buddies Mentoring is an invaluable community resource for at-risk youth offered by The CARE Group. The CARE Group was […]
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Eastern Shore (BBBSES) has a mentoring formula that works. An older person (known as […]
Challenger Center arose in the wake of a terrible tragedy, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in which all 7 crew […]
Boys & Girls Clubs of the MonDak Richland County, like all Boys & Girls Clubs of America, offers a safe […]
Florida Prosperity Partnership (FPP) has a tagline: “Elevate Financial Capability for All.” Young people are not neglected in this endeavor. […]
The Russell Education Foundation (REF) came into being because too many children reach the end of third grade without having […]
Jobs for Delaware Graduates exists because too many students drop out of high school and fail, for whatever reason, to […]
The Science Zone is bringing science to children across the state of Wyoming, a very tall order. But somehow this […]
Clonlara School may not be what comes to mind when you hear the word “school.” This very different kind of […]
Junior Auxiliary of Meridian members have a right to be proud. They’re still going strong after 90 years and […]
Future Urban Leaders is in large measure, about a mindset. Children who grow up in wealthier neighborhoods have more opportunities. […]
Riveredge Nature Center understands that learning doesn’t always happen as students sit inside the classroom. To the contrary, true learning […]
The Annie C. Courtney Foundation, Inc. tries to keep kids out of foster care. But for those youth already there, […]
MakerGirl believes that girls can excel in STEM and use these skills toward a brighter future. But first you have […]
The Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer (AHF) was born in the wake of one family’s grief as a meaningful […]
Boston Partners in Education is determined to fill in the gaps in achievement and educational opportunities for Boston Public School […]
Breakthrough Greater Boston (BTGB) believes that any student who wants to go to college can do so. That belief goes […]
Tucson Family Volunteers, formerly known as Crafting Kind Kids, was founded by a mom who wanted to create more opportunities—kid-appropriate […]
Midtown Community Services is pretty much summed up by its name. Its services are for the community—a community made up […]
Mentor For Change is mentoring youth from low income neighborhoods in a novel way. A young person from a disadvantaged […]
Be THE Voice (BTV) is run by the students themselves, which makes sense. No one can get excited about a […]
Tutoring Chicago has been working its magic for close to six decades. The organization pours all its resources into ensuring […]
Community Education Partnerships (CEP) exists because every child deserves an education, even, or perhaps especially so, those who are homeless. […]
OUR HOUSE Grief Support Center can’t bring parents and other loved ones back to life. What this center can do […]
The Complete Player Charity serves to keep kids off the street in the hours after school. More importantly, TCP Charity […]
Doc Wayne Youth Services offers a unique curriculum that uses sports as a therapeutic device to help kids develop resiliency, […]
Page Ahead Children’s Literacy Program is doing something novel, so to speak, to further literacy in underserved Seattle neighborhoods. They […]
LaunchPAD Children’s Museum offers children something crucial: everything they need to engage in creative free play. Play is important for […]
Strong Women, Strong Girls (Pittsburgh) has a unique approach to empowering women and girls. SWSG has female college students mentor […]
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson, if you didn’t know better, might seem to you like just one more branch […]
Thrive Clermont teaches kids some of the “hardest and scariest parts of growing up” and much, much more. The organization […]
Learners Today, Leaders Tomorrow (LTLT) is ambitious. The organization not only aims to turn young people from various backgrounds into […]
Supporting Kidds is filling a critical need: supporting bereaved children. It is normal for adults to experience and cope with […]
Stanford Sierra Youth & Families (SSYAF) is a place where families can heal from all sorts of challenges and trauma. […]
New Vision Youth Services (NVYS) steps in where society has failed Virginia youth. These are the kids who have no […]
Forward Steps is an apt name for an organization that helps foster kids get ahead at a time when they […]
The Fayette Education Foundation wants the children of Fayette County to have an equal chance at getting the education they […]
Porter-Leath is a community gem, offering much-needed resources and services to Memphis area residents. Whether it’s a program that provides […]
The Palmetto Literacy Council is dedicated, with a passion, to helping both children and adults acquire the literacy skills they […]
Elevate Navajo, as part of Elevate USA, is serious about offering its young participants consistent relationships with caring adults—so serious, […]
Travis Manion Foundation serves an important demographic, those who served their country and the family members of those who gave […]
NOVA Principles Foundation works to instill values that have long guided youth in the right direction, but that may have […]
Just Us 4 Youth (JU4Y) uses various types of mentoring to support inner-city youth growing up under trying circumstances. These […]
Kids Ranch Inc. understands that children with challenges need extra help to reveal and realize their fullest potential. This organization […]
Los Niños Primero is the hub of the Latino community in Metro Atlanta. Here, they know they will be treated […]
Future for KIDS knows that growing up is difficult and that kids need help to succeed in school and in […]
Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky (PCAK) understands that parenting is hard. Kids are rebellious and difficult at times. Sometimes they whine. […]
One Stone stands out from the crowd because its youthful participants choose to learn, delve, and grow. How does that […]
Federation Early Learning Services (FELS) has been providing childcare to Philadelphians for over a century. As such, this nonprofit has […]
The Learning Lamp offers services that many children need, but that are beyond their parents’ means. Tutoring, for instance, costs […]
Families First Learning Lab, as you might have guessed from its name, is holistic, in that it offers enrichment for […]
The Bakken Museum has a wealth of youth programs to give children a deep look into the science of how […]
The Sage Mentorship Project operates in a school district with a dismal performance record. Sage Mentors give kids a lot […]
Son of a Saint is a mentoring program for boys without fathers. No organization can take the place of a […]
Charleston RISE was founded to address the dire state of education in Charleston County, where the public school system was […]
The Latin American Community Center (LACC), if you’ll pardon the cliché, is not just another community center. That’s what struck […]
Camp Twin Lakes (CTL) is a summer camp for children with all sorts of challenges. But it’s more than just […]
First Chance for Children is all about identifying needs in order to ensure that families and their children are successful. […]
Attollo may best be described as a mindset. The students in this program work hard because they want to work […]
Hawaii Literacy has an amazing legacy in the community it serves: 50 years of helping thousands of children and adults […]
Seaside Sustainability Inc. teaches youth about our waterways. But a large part of this teaching is not so much done […]
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston has a wide reach, mentoring girls in the Greater Boston area. That’s important, because […]
Urban Adventure Squad builds on what our moms always told us: “You need to get outside more and get some […]
Code Savvy is aptly named, ensuring that kids gain a good grasp of coding along with other computer science skills. […]
Math Circles of Chicago (MC2) offers math enrichment to the youth of Chicago, free of charge. The activities on offer […]
Higher Achievement doesn’t call its participants “students,” but “scholars.” That’s the growth mindset that is yielding results for middle school […]
Orion Area Youth Assistance (OAYA) does what it can to ensure that students get the support and tools they need […]
Foster Hearts is one those nonprofits that just grabs hold of your heart and doesn’t let go. Imagine kids left […]
Horton’s Kids came to our attention when we asked our followers for charity referrals for our small grant program. We […]
Friends of the Children—Klamath Basin is an organization that provides mentors to children. Most mentoring organizations offering this service has […]
Everybody Wins! Atlanta operates in a city in which 56 percent of third graders are reading below grade level. That statistic […]
Camp Horizon offers one of the most moving experiences a foster child is likely to have: being greeted by their […]
Pebble Tossers is a staunch believer in the power of community service projects. The organization offers children and families the […]
The Lawn Academy is a youth program with a couple of unusual twists. Twist number one is hinted at in […]
The Child & Family Guidance Center (CFGC) offers supportive services that help families stay together and be the best they […]
Arizona Outdoor Adventures is pretty much a one-man operation, run by its founder, Dan Priest. In the summer of 2015, […]
Empowered Tutoring, is an organization that is making sure that the children of their community don’t slip between the cracks […]
Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula (BGCP) is a place where kids can feel a sense of belonging. It […]
Healthy NewsWorks, at its core, believes that journalism is a kind of teacher. A journalist, after all, must ask questions, […]
Take Stock in Children of Broward is serving a community with grim statistics regarding high school graduation: only about half […]
STEAMsport, Inc. is a cut above the usual afterschool programs in underserved communities, because its focus, as you might have […]
Valley Scholars is making sure that young people have the support and encouragement they need to be the first in […]
Communities In Schools of Hampton Roads (CISofHR) gives students and their families something they don’t even know exists: access to […]
UpSpring manages to accomplish what seems an impossible task: providing an education to, and raising the self-esteem of children experiencing […]
Urban Scholar Academy was born of the frustration of teacher, mother, and Urban Scholar Academy Co-Founder and Executive Director Alexis Coleman. […]
Youth Enrichment Services (YES) is Pittsburgh’s answer for how to keep kids out of or help them exit from the […]
Alphademic Learning is a student-led organization that was founded during the pandemic. The pandemic has negatively affected the whole world. […]
Bigs & Littles NYC Mentoring offers one-to-one mentoring to children from the most marginalized of sectors. But Bigs & Littles […]
Wyler Boys & Girls Club of Greater Cincinnati gives children a place and an opportunity to engage in healthy activities […]
Robotics For All (RFA) has a mission and that is to ensure that young people in underserved neighborhoods have access […]
Keystone Mentorship is one of a number of nonprofits developed by students to enable other students to keep up with […]
Literacy Matters Foundation is on a mission to close the literacy gap by offering innovative learning tools to schools located […]
Southwest Kids Cancer Foundation offers kids with cancer a summer camp experience. Cancer is overwhelming, scary, and painful. This makes […]
STEM & Buds was founded by two remarkable high school students who found they were impacted by having mentors in […]
National Inventors Hall of Fame is devoted to making STEM subjects approachable, desirable, and most of all, fun for kids. […]
The Gray Matter Experience is using entrepreneurship and mentoring to invest black youth with the power to succeed. Anything that […]
RSVP Rutland County Reads (RSVP) makes creative use of seniors and other members of the community to work with local […]
The EPIC Foundation, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, offers educational equity and career opportunities to South Florida students.
The Jefferson County Library Association, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, generates funds for an important community asset: its libraries!
Everybody Wins! Iowa, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, knows that when mentors read aloud to children, children aren't the only winners.
Dunn Police Athletic League, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, engages kids in positive, success-driven activities in the hours after school.
YMCA of Northern Colorado, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, has worked miracles in serving families and children during this pandemic.
STEM Without Boundaries, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, is making sure that every student has the chance to get excited about STEM.
Kids ‘n Kinship operates in Dakota County, Minnesota, to give children a bit of extra support in a sometimes bewildering […]
Batya Girls is an organization that has grown in leaps and bounds since its founding in 2006. Maybe that’s because […]
Future Kings, like so many other organizations serving youth, is working with children who have the disadvantage of coming from […]
Senior Adults for Greater Education (S.A.G.E.) appears to be a match made in heaven. The organization pairs seniors with young […]
Inspiring Minds, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, helps kids get ahead with academic support, mentoring, and a positive learning experience.
First Serve Pal has a unique model in which high school students mentor younger students for a salary somewhat above minimum wage!
Project Hope Alliance, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, gives homeless children the tools they need to end homelessness once and for all.
“I Have A Dream” Foundation is making sure that every child can go to college and succeed in school and […]
Hopecam, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, helps connect kids with cancer to classmates via technology to combat social isolation.
Mile High 360 has figured something out that seems to elude most organizations working with kids: you need to stay […]
The Fire Museum of Maryland is the go-to place for learning all about the history of firefighting, the science of […]
Even needy children will have brand new books to read, if twin sisters Paige and Ashley DeFreitas have their way. […]
Agape Villages Foster Family Agency is not your usual sort of foster placement agency. For one thing, the main goal […]
Real Men Real Heroes has a winning formula to get kids to aspire to greatness: put them together with people […]
Enroot knows that immigrant students need all the help they can get. It’s hard being a teenager anywhere, but being […]
Changing Destinations is about something bigger than getting kids ready to take an active role in the communities in which […]
Aeon for Ocean is proof that children can get involved in causes and make a difference. The organization, started by […]
Partner for Student Success (PFSS) isn’t one more organization serving youth, but a way to partner up with and harness […]
East Oakland Boxing Association (EOBA) is passionate about helping youth, and they know exactly how and why to do it. […]
Youth Guidance is using many tools to strengthen underserved youth in the Chicago area, so they will graduate and succeed […]
Immigrant Social Services, Inc. (ISS) serves as a bridge between cultures for the children of immigrants. It can be confusing […]
Minnesota Children’s Museum is a place where play is the central focus. This is important not just because play is […]
Brooke’s Place is where grieving children have a community. In a way, that’s sad: there shouldn’t be a community of grieving […]
Sometimes, kids get into scrapes and end up incarcerated when they might have straightened out with some support, graduate, and […]
Community Resources for Science (CRS) is about making science exciting for children and their teachers. The sad fact is that […]
Essential2Life is all about getting urban youth in Atlanta to take on the burden of leadership in their community. Education, […]
Cape Fear Guardian ad Litem Association, or CFGALA, for short, trains volunteers to ensure that the needs of children who […]
The ALVAINA Foundation is not only inspiring youth to do anything they want in life, but figuring out what they […]
The Happy Crew isn’t a suicide club, but a club that acts as a sort of antidote to00 the root […]
West End House Girls Camp has a certain vibe going on, that makes you wanna be a kid and join […]
Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital is a gorgeous building offering state-of-the-art pediatric medical care of a type not found elsewhere. […]
Ánimo Westside Charter Middle School has opened a college center to inspire students to pursue a higher education. The spirit […]
We hear a lot about the problem of homelessness, and how it needs to be solved with jobs and affordable […]
Providence Public Library is unusual in the number of high-quality programs it offers to local youth and their families. We […]
Science From Scientists has an uphill battle, making science attractive to students who tend to think of STEM studies as […]
Reading Partners Baltimore is getting young students reading, which means giving them the best possible start to learning in school […]
LEAP stands for Leadership, Education & Athletics in Partnership. And having been in operation 25 plus years, we can see […]
Sparrow Clubs U.S.A. is doing work we believe in: giving children opportunities to do kindness for those less fortunate. Why […]
M.E.S.A. (Making Every Student Accountable) is a unique program for at-risk youth developed by the Mesa Police Department, Mesa Public […]
The Academy Project is making a difference for the tens of thousands (no typo) of foster youth living in South […]
Merry Heart Children’s Camp is a camp for children with heart conditions, the idea of which, if you think about […]
New Door Ventures is addressing a critical issue: the fact that 80,000 youth aged 16-24 in the Bay Area, don’t […]
Raising Kindness is doing something unique: creating volunteer opportunities for children and their families within the community. We love this […]
DIBS for Kids believes that every child should have a great book, waiting for them at home. And the easiest […]
When you go to The Garage Community & Youth Center website, you just can tell it is so: there’s a […]
Project Morry, at first glance, seems like just another summer camp. But it’s not. The legacy of Morry Stein, Project […]
Maverick Landing Community Services (MLCS) is situated at the heart of a housing development, offering the families who live there […]
NJ LEEP (Law and Education Empowerment Project) self-describes as a “college access and success program” for students and families in […]
Mathews-Dickey Boys’ & Girls’ Club is about giving over the values of a healthy lifestyle, developing leadership skills, and preparing […]
Painting Pictures Incorporated CEO and Founder Corey James, believes that kids aren’t what they do, they’re just painting a picture […]
Aim High isn’t taking summer learning loss lying down. The Aim High summer program is now in its fourth decade […]
Lawrence Hall is helping foster children in every way possible: finding them the right place to live, and easing them […]
Children’s Museum of Tacoma is about giving children everything they need to give them the fullest freedom for free play. […]
The Children’s Literacy Center (CLC) is working hard to ensure that Colorado children are reading at grade level. That’s because […]
Elite Learners, Inc., is offering all sorts of interesting and much-needed mentoring and education programs for New York City children—the […]
The Baltimore Urban Debate League (BUDL) brings excitement to learning. Instead of relying on rote memory, in debate kids must […]
City Year Philadelphia is fighting a dire statistic: one out of four students in Philadelphia will drop out of school. […]
Phillips County Family Education Services is more than just an after school program. It’s a place where people can help […]
Wesley-Rankin Community Center is not just another community center, but is distinguished by the passion one can sense on perusing […]
Freedom Readers offers children one-on-one literacy tutoring to ensure they become fluent readers and lovers of books and words. We […]
After-School All-Stars, Washington DC, (ASAS DC) has a tough job. Kids in this after-school program are missing even the most […]
Schools That Can (Newark) (STC) is all about making our children’s education more impactful, more real. The STC approach is […]
Building A Generation (BAG) is helping to level the playing field so that children from low-income families have a fighting […]
Downingtown Community Education Foundation (DCEF) has jumped in to provide children with all sorts of innovative enrichment programs, beyond what […]
Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services, Inc. (Gulf Coast JFCS), is our newest small grant recipient. This non-sectarian nonprofit […]
BUILD offers a chance for students in low-income neighborhoods to get the same education as students in wealthier neighborhoods. That’s […]
Partners In Education (PIE) matches local businesses with schools in all kinds of creative ways. Just for example, over the […]
YouthServe Birmingham has 1500-2000 youth participating in its programs each year. Mostly, these youths are giving back to the community […]
Hyde Square Task Force (HSTF) is all about building up the young people of Boston’s Latin Quarter. The organization does […]
The Center for Cyber Safety and Education is working to protect our children from the dangers of technology. In some […]
Lower Brule Research is doing something unique and creative that deserves our attention. The youth of Lower Brule engage the […]
Quiet Storm is making a difference for the youth of Las Vegas by supporting their education, teaching them about health […]
The Reading Team, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, aims to ensure that all New York children are literate--that all of them learn how to read and write.
Imagine entering school never having held a book, never having used art materials — being unprepared to interact with your […]
Oregon Children’s Foundation SMART (Start Making a Reader Today) is Kars4Kids newest small grant recipient. We gave them a grant […]
Hartford Camp Courant (HCC) isn’t just a summer day camp, or Kars4Kids would have never given them a small grant. […]
The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, associated with the University of Minnesota, is a fabulous place for children to learn all about […]
CPY (Community Partnership for Youth) can’t fail to impress for the scope of programming it provides and for the statistical […]
Playworks is about seeing the value of recess and helping kids getting the most out of these short breaks in […]
BioBus brings science to the children of New York’s underserved communities by way of buses turned into mobile labs. The […]
Chess for Success is an organization that serves as proof positive that anyone can use the game of chess as […]
Affinity Mentoring approaches mentoring by finding people who really have something to give, with children in the community who are […]
The Traveling Stories website offers some dire statistics: one in four children in America grow up without learning to read, […]
Mighty Writers, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient improves the literacy of Philadelphia students through writing.
One might say that YouthSERVE is equal parts matchmaking and volunteerism. The program draws on the personalities, drive, and abilities […]
Norwalk Grassroots Tennis & Education (NGTE) is an organization that is getting kids to succeed in school and in life […]
The mission of Environmental Charter Schools (ECS) is to reimagine public education in low income communities of color to prepare […]
GivingWorks Empathy Project is unique in that it gives children with less an opportunity to give. That struck us at […]
The motto of Project U.S.E. is “living education since 1970.” That’s because the students enrolled in Project U.S.E. aren’t sitting […]
SuperSeeds Founder Candice Tolbert is passionate about eliminating school suspensions. She wants schools to really educate children about the consequences […]
Chattanooga’s Kids on the Block uses a special type of puppetry to teach children about difficult topics that are generally […]
Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is attempting to change the competitive sports dynamics for children. We’re all familiar with the tough […]
The Holocaust is likely the most difficult subject to teach children. We wish we didn’t have to teach kids about […]
Classroom Central is filling in the gaps that poverty leaves in its wake. Kids can’t succeed in school if they […]
AASuccess, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, helps mostly Asian students, but the story of these students might as well be […]
The scope of Girl Scouts Heart of the South is difficult to fathom having served 6,000 girls with the help […]
Green Works in Kansas City is the brainchild of Kate Corwin, former IT engineer who had an epiphany when her […]
Don’t Hide It, Flaunt It, a Kars4Kids small grant recipient, is based on an idea so appealing, so inspiring, that […]
The busy organization known as BEGIN WITH BOOKS is an offshoot of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. And boy, is it […]
Kennrod is a young organization–in only its second year of operation–that is striving to make a positive difference in the world. […]
The National Organizations for Youth Safety (NOYS) believes there is strength in numbers. Kars4Kids agrees. Which is why we’ve given […]
uCodeGirl is trying to change a little-known fact: that girls tend not to even attempt a course of study or […]
The newest Kars4Kids small grant recipient is Forget Me Not Farm, where foster and at-risk children can heal from trauma […]
Studies show that when parents get involved with their children’s education, it makes a tremendous difference for the child. That’s […]
Joel Daniel Harris doesn’t call himself the CEO of TomTod Ideas, rather he calls himself “Executive Dreamer,” because that’s what […]
Bacon Street is fighting against substance abuse by working directly with the individuals most affected by this scourge—young people—and their […]
Yours Humanly helps children on the most basic level: by making sure they’re not on the streets. And yes, that […]
Educators of America is a nonprofit organization that is helping underserved children at the root cause: getting their teachers up […]
Summer camp may sound like a luxury, but it’s anything but when you’re a child with a chronic and/or life-threatening […]
It’s proven: children who are exposed to books, language, nursery rhymes, and conversation as infants and toddlers, are better prepared […]
Mission Graduates is a grassroots effort that became something huge. The organization encourages and incentivizes mostly immigrant students, in San […]
Students Run LA (SRLA) Founder Harry Shabazian ran a marathon and as a result, tens of thousands of at-risk students […]
“Their parent gave all for our legacy. What will we give for theirs?” reads the homepage of the Angels of […]
The Third Street Community Center (TSCC) fills an important role in the lives of San Jose children from low-income homes. These […]
Learning by doing is something Community Boat Building takes seriously. The 4th and 5th graders that are lucky enough to […]
Our newest small grant recipient is So What Else, an organization that empowers disenfranchised children in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area […]
When Kars4Kids awarded a small grant to Bench Mark Program (BMP), the unbridled enthusiasm of its Founder and Executive Director […]
Rise Above is an organization that tries to make up for what it is most foster children have never had. […]
Kids Cooking for Life teaches children how to cook. Kids adore the fun, hands-on cooking classes not least because they […]
BCAUSEICAN mentors children in the Greater Washington, D.C. area, teaching them financial and computer literacy and how to eat healthy […]
Project Rousseau mentors high school students from low-income homes. The nonprofit organization does this by pairing these students with college […]
Our Piece of the Pie (OPP) is mentoring inner city youth in Hartford, Connecticut, taking them by the hand, listening […]
Whaley Children’s Center is the kind of place that carves a notch into your heart and settles in forever. This […]
LDA St. Louis exists because children with learning disabilities aren’t getting what they need in our public school classrooms. That’s […]
The newest Kars4Kids small grant recipient is the Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services of Southern California. We like to tell […]
The National Safe Place Network (NSPN) extends a lifeline to children on the run. We’re talking children in crisis with […]
FIRST North Carolina is all about getting kids to like science. Could there be anything better than that? Kars4Kids doesn’t […]
ReadBoston knows that one of the main obstacles to academic success is arriving at that first day in school without […]
Wildflowers are often the first sign that nature has rebounded after a devastating forest fire. This idea: that beauty can […]
We love giving out money to worthy organizations. Which is why we were very happy when SCOPE, which stands for […]
Leanne Joyce, at the age of 16, has accomplished more than most adults. A nationally-ranked jump roper, competitive swimmer, and […]
We have a soft-spot for organizations like Girls on the Run International, that inspire kids and give them confidence. That’s […]
It’s one of our favorite letters to write: “Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that Science Camps of America […]
It’s the kind of email we love to send out: “Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that National Save […]
Riley Joy Gantt was ten years old when her class visited a school located in a low-income neighborhood. A young […]
Girls on the Run (GOTR) does what it says it does: it inspires girls. And it does that by teaching […]
We (“we” being Kars4Kids) gave out another small grant, this time to Seattle Inspiring Connections Outdoors (ICO), which began as […]
Dr. Bernard A. Harris went about as far as a black man can go. To be specific, he was the […]
The Bridge Teen Center, a center for suburban teens, is the latest recipient of a Kars4Kids small grant. Now, when […]
Free Arts is the newest organization to receive a small grant from Kars4Kids. This organization was founded in 1977 in […]
The Gary Comer Youth Center is, at first glance, a tangle of contradictions. It’s a state of the art building—an […]
TeenSHARP is among the newest recipients of a Kars4Kids small grant, thanks to its terrific mentoring programs that raise college […]
Daniel is a place where kids with the worst problems imaginable can get help and it’s been that way since […]
Opportunity Neighborhood is fighting crime by building a sense of community among the residents in affordable housing units in North […]
A very special children’s theater school called TADA! just became the recipient of a small grant from Kars4Kids. We wanted […]
“Congratulations! I am pleased to inform you that The Reading Connection has been awarded a $350 small grant from Kars4Kids! […]
Social emotional learning (SEL) can help children soar through life challenges by giving them healthy ways to vent and channel […]
Helping children is the primary mission of Kars4Kids. That’s why we created a small grants program for helping worthy organizations […]
Brad Cohen’s Brad Cohen Tourette Syndrome Foundation recently applied for and received a small grant from Kars4Kids. We were happy […]
Kars4Kids, like all nonprofit organizations has a mission and that mission is to help kids anyway we can. That’s why […]
