Teach for America is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enlisting our nation’s most promising future leaders in the movement to eliminate educational inequality. Today, some 4,400 Teach for America corps members teach in 25 urban and rural communities profoundly affected by the achievement gap. In the short term the corps members work to ensure their students achieve academic success; in the long term they become lifelong leaders for expanding educational opportunity.
Sheltering Arms is Georgia’s oldest
nonprofit early childhood education program,
and one of its most respected. Our mission
is to serve working families with high
quality, affordable child care and education
and comprehensive support services, as well
as to provide professional development for
early childhood educators and community
outreach. Founded by Atlanta volunteers in
1888, Sheltering Arms now annually serves
more than 4,000 children, ages six weeks to
five years old, and their families, in 16
centers in seven metro Atlanta counties.
The mission of the After-School All-Stars
(ASAS) is to provide comprehensive
out-of-school time programs that keep
children safe and help them achieve in
school and in life. ASAS envisions a world
in which all children have the opportunity
to reach the full potential. We are setting
the standards for comprehensive, state of
the art after-school programs that can be
replicated anywhere in America.