Opportunity to Learn Fund

Schott seeks to launch a five-year, multi-million dollar Opportunity To Learn philanthropic strategy to increase resource accountability and ensure that race is no longer a significant predictor of educational resource access or outcomes. The Schott Foundation will use its advocacy management firm philanthropic model to manage a grantmaking strategy to build the public will to increase the number of states that adopt an “Opportunity To Learn” reform framework and create a federal right to an Opportunity To Learn. Learn more >

The Black Male Donor Collaborative

In America, educational achievement correlates with successful outcomes in employment, earning capacity, civic engagement, and levels of interactions with state and federal penal systems. Consequently, the Black Male Donor Collaborative aims to identify successful program interventions and policy levers to address the achievement disparities impacting the most extremely underperforming group in New York—Black males. Learn more >

Teachers as Leaders Fund

The "Teachers as Leaders" Program is focused on recruiting and retaining African American males as teachers in NYC and training them to engage as policy advocates.  The initiative is also focused on evaluating the impact of African American male teachers on the educational performance of Black boys. Learn more >

Schott Black Male Initiative

Over the last 25 years, the social, educational and economic outcomes for Black males have been more systemically devastating than the outcomes for any other racial or ethnic group or gender. Schott began the Black Boys Initiative in 2003 with the initial goal of creating a movement to improve the educational experiences of black boys to ensure that they graduate from high school with the confidence to become successful members of society. Learn more >