Programs We Currently Fund

Computers for Youth’s mission is to improve the educational prospects of low-income students by providing them and their families with home computers and the skills to use them. By using technology as a catalyst, we help students become more engaged in their own learning and thereby succeed in school and as life-long learners.

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The MovingVoices Project empowers young people in ten countries to use broadband technologies to produce digital videos as part of a first-of-its-kind international repository of cross-cultural videos for use in schools in the US and worldwide. This project puts broadband technology in the hands of educators around the world to teach them, through an online professional development course, to integrate digital filmmaking in the curriculum. The goals are to achieve specific learning objectives, advance professional
development and foster cross-cultural exchange. Focusing on the theme "what I want the world to know about my school" teacher and students from ten countries (from Argentina to Zimbabwe), produce 2 minute digital videos interpreting and relate this theme to their cultural milieu.

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The NetDay Student Voices Resource Center is a new program that is an online "how-to" kit to get kids to be part of local decision-making at their schools on the use of technology in education and to use that local community activism to drive change at the local, state and national level- mostly local. It's a direct response from what NetDay learned from the 210,000 kids that participated in their SpeakUp Day online survey. In addition, it will provide support resources for parents and teachers that want to work with the kids on these issues.

For more information on NetDay Student Voices Resource Center, click here.

Through entrepreneurship education, NFTE, which is also referred to as Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, helps young people from low-income communities build skills and unlock their entrepreneurial creativity. Since 1987, NFTE has reached over 100,000 young people, trained more than 3,200 Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers, and continually improved its innovative entrepreneurship curriculum.
Mission: NFTE teaches entrepreneurship to young people from low-income communities to enhance their economic productivity by improving their business, academic and life skills.

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ThinkQuest New York City creatively brings together learning and technology for students and educators. Combining the power of technology with proven educational principles, ThinkQuest New York City offers exciting programming including the annual "ThinkQuest Challenge", a contest for students to create educational websites. Critical to its mission is to provide free training for teachers and educators in schools and after-school programs.

For more information on ThinkQuest New York City, click here.