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 Education
Teen Outreach Program: Palm Beach (Boyton Beach, Florida/Palm Beach County, Florida)
Primary Project: Palm Beach (West Palm Beach, Florida)

 Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Promoting Health Equity, Education Programs and Policies: Full-Day Kindergarten (USA)Cdc
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Early Childhood Development Programs: Comprehensive, Center-Based Programs for Children of Low-Income Families (USA)Cdc
Beginning Education Early: Strengthening Rural Alabama Families (Choctaw County, AL)
Safe Passages, Early Childhood: The Oakland Early Childhood Initiative (Alameda County)
Champions for Children (Seattle, WA)
Child Care Plus
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (USA)
Carolina Abecedarian Project (Chapel Hill, NC)
Child Development Project (San Francisco)
Chicago Child-Parent Centers (Chicago, IL)
Class Wide Peer Tutoring Program (Kansas City, KS)
Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) (Washington)
Parents As Teachers
Smart Start (North Carolina)
Syracuse Family Development Research Program (Syracuse, NY)
Jumpstart: Connect Early
Early Care and Education Program (Los Angeles)
Family Place Libraries™ (USA)
Social Skills In Pictures, Stories, and Songs
Imagination Library
Hope Street Family Center- Early Head Start Program (Los Angeles)
Hope Street Family Center- Family Literacy Program (Los Angeles)
Hope Street Family Center- School Readiness Program (Los Angeles)
Migrant Education Even Start (MEES) (California)
First 5 Power of Preschool (PoP) (California)
Special Needs Project (SNP) (California)
Comprehensive Approaches to Raising Education Standards (CARES) (California)
Summer Bridge (Marin)
Foundations of Learning Project (Newark, New Jersey)
Raising A Reader (USA)
THINK Together (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino)
Early Literacy Skills Builder (ELSB) (USA)
Helping Early Literacy with Practice Strategies (HELPS) (USA)
The New Teacher Project (USA)
Early HeartSmarts Program (USA)
Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) (USA)
It's a Habit, Sammy Rabbit! (USA and international )
Asthma Basics for Children (ABC) (New York, NY)
Reach Out and Read (Nationwide)
PAVEd for Success
ABRACADABRA Reading Intervention Program
Reach Out and Read: Palm Beach (Palm Beach)
Parent-Child Home Program: Palm Beach (Palm Beach)
DLM Early Childhood Express/Imagine It! (Palm Beach)
Quality Counts (Palm Beach)
Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) (USA)
Healthy Beginnings (Palm Beach, FL)
Parent-Child Home Program (USA)
Itchy's Alphabet (Canada and USA)
Parent Voices (San Francisco, CA)
Prime Time Palm Beach County (Palm Beach, FL)
Experience Corps (USA)
Doors to Discovery (USA)
Early Literacy and Learning Model (Florida)
Even Start (USA)
Raising Readers (Maine)
Cooks for Kids (Mississippi)
Reach Out and Read: Washington, D.C. (Washington, D.C.)
Engaging Elementary Students with Seniors in a Bird Feeder Project (Lewiston, ID)
Out-of-School Time Care (Colorado)
Club Denver After School Program (Denver, CO)
The CrossPoints Project: Using Virtual Reality to Teach Pedestrian Safety to Children (Ontario, Canada)

 Education / Educational Attainment in Adult Population
Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) (Ohio)
Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA) (USA)
Vision Literacy (Santa Clara, CA)
Project SHINE
Bard Prison Initiative (New York)
Check and Connect (Minneapolis, MN)
Positive Action Center (USA)
Chaffey’s Enhanced Opening Doors Program (Southern California)
One City One Book: San Francisco Reads (San Francisco, CA)
Even Start (USA)
LPN Education Partnership (Juab County, Utah)
The Isles Career Center (Trenton, NJ)

 Education / Higher Education
Integrating Community Service with Higher Education Student Government Programming (Sonoma County, CA)
The Hundred Year Association of New York Municipal Awards Program (New York, NY)
Public Health Expertise Network of Mentors (PHENOM)
Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS) (Seattle, WA)
Career Beginnings
Admission Possible (Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN)
Bard Prison Initiative (New York)
Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program (USA)
Posse (USA)
Chaffey’s Enhanced Opening Doors Program (Southern California)
College Track (Oakland, CA)
Summer Search (San Francisco, CA)
Downtown College Prep (San Jose, CA)
Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) (USA)
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) (USA)
Aid Success Project (California and Ohio)
Aim High (San Francisco, Oakland, Marin, San Mateo counties)
Student Outreach for College Enrollment (Los Angeles)
Fast Track Summer Exposure Camp (USA)
Climate Action Toolkit

 Education / Literacy
Developing a Community Adult Literacy Program (Kellogg, ID)
Let's Talk…It Makes a Difference! (Cambridge, MA)
Tarrant County WIC/Library Plan (Tarrant County, TX)
Greenwich Senior Center (Greenwich, CT)
Houston READ Commission (Houston, TX)
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (Baltimore, MD)
Core Knowledge
Early Intervention in Reading
Partners in Reading (Greensboro, NC)
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) (Nashville, TN)
Reading Recovery
Reciprocal Teaching
Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) (Ohio)
Boys and Girls Club Project Learn
Let Each One Teach One (Denver, CO)
Success For All (USA)
Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA) (USA)
KidzLit and KidzMath (USA)
Vision Literacy (Santa Clara, CA)
Jumpstart: Connect Early
Libraries and Autism: We're Connected
Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.)
Family Place Libraries™ (USA)
Imagination Library
Hope Street Family Center- Family Literacy Program (Los Angeles)
Families Learning and Growing (F.L.A.G.ship) (Marin)
Raising A Reader (USA)
THINK Together (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino)
Reading Partners (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino)
Partners in School Innovation (San Francisco, CA)
Early Literacy Skills Builder (ELSB) (USA)
Helping Early Literacy with Practice Strategies (HELPS) (USA)
New Directions for Youth (Los Angeles, CA)
826 National (Chapters in CA, NY, IL, WA, MI, MA, DC)
In2Books (Virtual Program)
Higher Achievement Program (Washington, DC, Alexandria, VA and Baltimore, MD)
One City One Book: San Francisco Reads (San Francisco, CA)
Reach Out and Read (Nationwide)
Play/Write Program (New York City)
Reach Out and Read: Palm Beach (Palm Beach)
Parent-Child Home Program: Palm Beach (Palm Beach)
DLM Early Childhood Express/Imagine It! (Palm Beach)
READ 180 (USA)
Parent-Child Home Program (USA)
Itchy's Alphabet (Canada and USA)
Doors to Discovery (USA)
Early Literacy and Learning Model (Florida)
Even Start (USA)
Youth Opportunity Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
Raising Readers (Maine)
Youth Speaks (San Francisco, CA)
Reach Out and Read: Washington, D.C. (Washington, D.C.)
231 Change Teams (San Diego, CA)

 Education / School Environment
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: School-Based Programs to Reduce Violence (USA)Cdc
Implementing a Coordinated School Health Program: One Local School's Success (Florida)
Teach Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
Placer County (CA) Peer Court Truancy Program (Placer County, CA)
Setting up a Kids Voting Program to Increase Civic Participation (USA)
Teaching Alternative High School Students Computer Skills through Experiential Learning (Tonasket, WA)
Promoting Youth Volunteerism with a Multi-District Council (Boyd County, KY)
Safe Passages, The Middle School Strategy (Alameda County)
Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School (Upton, MA)
Open Meadow Alternative School (Portland, OR)
Carolina Abecedarian Project (Chapel Hill, NC)
Child Development Project (San Francisco)
Chicago Child-Parent Centers (Chicago, IL)
Class Wide Peer Tutoring Program (Kansas City, KS)
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) (Arlington, VA)
Cognitive Relaxation Coping Skills (Fort Collins, CO)
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (Baltimore, MD)
Core Knowledge
Direct Instruction
Father/Male Involvement Preschool Teacher Education Program (Urbana, IL)
Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) (Phoenix, AZ)
The Incredible Years
Reciprocal Teaching
Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP) (New York, NY)
Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) (Wisconsin)
Ethnic Cuisine in Elementary Schools (Seattle, WA)
Arts Olympiad
Career Academy
Caring School Community Program (USA)
Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline (Houston, TX)
Fast Track (USA)
First Step to Success
Get Real About Violence (Evanston, IL)
Great Body Shop
Let Each One Teach One (Denver, CO)
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) (Eugene, OR)
Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence
Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace
Open Circle Curriculum
Peace Works (Miami, FL)
PeaceBuilders (Pima County, AZ)
Peacemakers Program
Peers Making Peace
Positive Action
Primary Project (Hennepin County, MN)
Project ACHIEVE (USA)
Project PACE (Huntington, NY)
Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS) (Pennsylvania)
Responsive Classroom
Rural Educational Achievement Project (Christian County, KY)
SCARE Program
School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program
Social Competence Promotion Program for Young Adolescents
Steps to Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program
Teaching Students to Be Peacemakers
Too Good for Violence (Tampa, FL)
Tribes
Violence Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents
Academic Tutoring and Social Skills Training (Durham, NC)
Project Back-on-Track (Gainesville, FL)
School Lunch Initiative (Berkeley, CA)
Edible Schoolyard (Berkeley, CA)
Community Nutrition and Urban Gardening (Riverdale, MD)
Farm 2 School Lunch Program (Kansas and Missouri)
Greening Canada's School Grounds Program (Canada)
Cool School Challenge (Washington)
Rocky View Schools Healthy Eating Initiative (Canada)
D.C. Schoolyard Greening Program (D.C.)
Youth Together (Oakland)
School Nutrition Policy Initiative (Philadelphia, PA)
The Aban Aya Youth Project (Chicago)
Positive Action Center (USA)
Respect for All Training Program (New York)
Posse (USA)
Reading Partners (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino)
Partners in School Innovation (San Francisco, CA)
The New Teacher Project (USA)
Summer Search (San Francisco, CA)
Downtown College Prep (San Jose, CA)
Water Jets in School Cafeterias (New York)
Water for Health in Secondary Schools (England)
National Coalition for Food-Safe Schools
See You in School (Whatcom, WA)
Rock On Cafe (Broome and Tioga, NY)
Mornings in Motion (Tennessee)
Diabetes-Based Science Education for Tribal Schools (DETS) (USA)
Playworks (USA)
Students Against Violence Everywhere (USA)
Aspirnaut Initiative (Arkansas, Maine, North Carolina, Tennessee)
Challenge Day / Be The Change (USA)
California Healthy Start (California)
Linking Education, Activity, and Food (LEAF): Fiscal Impact Report (California)
Teaching Stream Restoration to Alternative Middle School Students (Everett, WA)
Providing Educational Enrichment for Students Expelled from Traditional School Settings (Indianapolis, IN)
Good Behavior Game (Baltimore, MD)
Growing Healthy (USA)
STEP (School Transitional Environmental Program) (Rhode Island)
The F.U.N. Initiative (Garfield, NJ)

 Education / School Resources
Schools on Train Safety Program (Washington)
Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) (Wisconsin)
Team Accelerated Instruction: Math
Public Health Expertise Network of Mentors (PHENOM)
Facing History and Ourselves
Urban Advantage (New York, NY)
Edible Schoolyard (Berkeley, CA)
Community Nutrition and Urban Gardening (Riverdale, MD)
Sponsor-A-Mind® (USA)
Mix It Up!
ASPIRE (Houston)
Providing Education by Bringing Learning Environments to Students (PEBBLES)
Little Kids Rock (USA)
The New Teacher Project (USA)
826 National (Chapters in CA, NY, IL, WA, MI, MA, DC)
In2Books (Virtual Program)
See You in School (Whatcom, WA)
Aspirnaut Initiative (Arkansas, Maine, North Carolina, Tennessee)
Thoreau Community Center (Thoreau, NM)
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) (Selected communities in the U.S.)
Cool Schools Tree Planting and Education Program (Los Angeles)
Bronx Museum Partnership (New York City)

 Education / Student Performance K-12
CDC COMMUNITY GUIDE: Behavioral and Social: Enhanced School-Based Physical Education (USA)Cdc
Building Effective Programs for Summer Learning (USA)
TeleKidcare® (Kansas)
Around the World Kid2Kid (Oakland, CA)
Teach Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
Computers4Kids (Charlottesville, VA)
Communities and Schools for Career Success (CS2) (Petaluma, CA)
Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepeneurship (SAGE) (Chico, CA)
Placer County (CA) Peer Court Truancy Program (Placer County, CA)
Partnering with a Bakery to Provide Breakfast to Low-Income Schools (United Kingdom)
Teaching Alternative High School Students Computer Skills through Experiential Learning (Tonasket, WA)
Project SOAR Mentoring Program for Youth (Galveston, AZ)
Helping Kids Grow (West Allis, WI)
Adopt-A-Ship Program (USA)
Youth Uprising (Oakland, CA)
Teen Outreach Program (TOP) (USA)
McIntosh Middle School's Coordinated School Health Program (Sarasota, FL)
Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School (Upton, MA)
DO-IT (Disabilities Opportunities Internetworking Technology) Scholars Program (Seattle, WA)
Improved Solutions for Urban Systems' High Schools (Dayton, OH)
Linking Learning to Life (Chittenden County, VT)
Maryland's Tomorrow (Baltimore, MD)
Open Meadow Alternative School (Portland, OR)
Project COFFEE (Co-Operative Federation for Educational Experiences) (Oxford, MA)
Salem County School-to-Careers Initiative (Salem County, NJ)
Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center (Tuscon, AZ)
Work Resource Center High School/High Tech Program (Cincinnati, OH)
YouthBuild McLean County (McLean County, IL)
Carolina Abecedarian Project (Chapel Hill, NC)
Child Development Project (San Francisco)
Class Wide Peer Tutoring Program (Kansas City, KS)
Cognitively Guided Instruction (Madison, WI)
Communities In Schools, Inc. (CIS) (USA)
Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition (Baltimore, MD)
Core Knowledge
Direct Instruction
Early Intervention in Reading
I Have a Dream
Partners in Reading (Greensboro, NC)
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) (Nashville, TN)
Quantum Opportunity Program
Reading Recovery
Reciprocal Teaching
Smart Start (North Carolina)
Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) (Wisconsin)
Team Accelerated Instruction: Math
Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority (Savannah, GA)
Achievement through Community Services, Education and Skill-Building (ACES) (Philadelphia, PA)
All Children Excel (ACE) (Ramsey County, MN)
Boys and Girls Club Project Learn
Career Academy
Career Beginnings
Caring School Community Program (USA)
Child-Parent Center (Chicago, IL)
Chronic Truancy Initiative
Club HERO (Helping Everyone Reach Out) (Atlanta, GA)
Consistency Management & Cooperative Discipline (Houston, TX)
Let Each One Teach One (Denver, CO)
Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education (Michigan)
Responsive Classroom
Rural Educational Achievement Project (Christian County, KY)
SCARE Program
Schools and Families Educating Children (SAFE Children)
Success For All (USA)
Tribes
Truant Recovery Program (Richmond, CA)
Academic Tutoring and Social Skills Training (Durham, NC)
Urban Advantage (New York, NY)
North Carolina Graduation Project (North Carolina)
Reconnecting Youth (USA)
Coping and Support Training (CAST) (USA)
Twelve Together (San Diego)
Stepping Up to Algebra (Santa Clara)
TRUCE Fitness and Nutrition Center (Harlem)
KidzLit and KidzMath (USA)
Admission Possible (Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN)
Check and Connect (Minneapolis, MN)
Aiming High (Sonoma, CA)
Reading Education Assistance Dogs (R.E.A.D.)
Coalition for Community Schools (USA)
Healthier Options for Public Schoolchildren (HOPS) (Osceola)
College Track (Oakland, CA)
Downtown College Prep (San Jose, CA)
Project Graduation Really Achieves Dreams (GRAD) (USA)
Achievers for Life (Jacksonville, FL)
826 National (Chapters in CA, NY, IL, WA, MI, MA, DC)
In2Books (Virtual Program)
Higher Achievement Program (Washington, DC, Alexandria, VA and Baltimore, MD)
NYC FITNESSGRAM (New York)
Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) (New York)
Yoga Ed (Los Angeles, CA)
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) (USA)
See You in School (Whatcom, WA)
Arts Residency Interventions in Special Education (ARISE) Project (San Francisco, CA)
Spark (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago)
National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program (USA)
Play/Write Program (New York City)
DLM Early Childhood Express/Imagine It! (Palm Beach)
Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) (USA)
Ripple Effects Whole Spectrum Intervention System (Ripple Effects) (USA and Canada)
Think Big Clubs - Teen Mentoring (Palm Beach and Martin, FL)
Community Based Mentoring Program: Palm Beach (Palm Beach and Martin, FL)
School Based Mentoring Program: Palm Beach (Palm Beach and Martin, FL)
Experience Corps (USA)
Career Skills Mentoring Program (Palm Beach and Martin, FL)
Building Educated Leaders for Life (BELL) (Selected communities in the U.S.)
Health Science in Motion (Palm Beach County)
Youth Opportunity Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
Florida Youth ChalleNGe Academy (Florida)
Project for Pride in Living (Minneapolis, MN)
Elev8 (Chicago, Oakland, Baltimore, and New Mexico)
Aim High (San Francisco, Oakland, Marin, San Mateo counties)
Providing Summer Youth Activities (Dallas County, AR)
Engaging Parents and Adults in Educational Activities at School (Princeton, NJ; Philadelphia, PA)
CYFAR New Communities Project (Idaho)
Using Ten Techniques to Sustain a Successful Mentoring Relationship (USA)
Supporting At-Risk Youth with Summer High School Preparatory Programs (Cherokee-Graham-Swain Counties, NC)
Providing Educational Enrichment for Students Expelled from Traditional School Settings (Indianapolis, IN)
Extended-Service Schools Initiative (Philadelphia, PA)
STEP (School Transitional Environmental Program) (Rhode Island)

 Education / Vocational & Adult Education
Developing a Community Adult Literacy Program (Kellogg, ID)
Teaching Nutrition and Life Skills to Adults with Low Incomes (Verona, VA)
Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School (Upton, MA)
Interlocal Association's Youth with Disabilities Project (Indianapolis region, IN)
Improved Solutions for Urban Systems' High Schools (Dayton, OH)
Jewish Vocational Service Programs for Youth with Disabilities (San Francisco)
Job Link (Cleveland, OH)
Linking Learning to Life (Chittenden County, VT)
Bridges . . . from school to work (Washington, D.C.)
Montgomery Youth Work's Partnership for All Youth (Wheaton, MD)
My Turn (Brockton, MA)
Project COFFEE (Co-Operative Federation for Educational Experiences) (Oxford, MA)
Project CRAFT
Project SEARCH (Cincinnati, OH)
Sacramento Job Corps Center (Sacramento, CA)
Salem County School-to-Careers Initiative (Salem County, NJ)
Fred G. Acosta Job Corps Center (Tuscon, AZ)
Work Resource Center High School/High Tech Program (Cincinnati, OH)
Taller Tech (Santa Ana, CA)
Connecting Activities (Massachusetts)
Youth Empowerment Program (Manchester, NH)
Houston READ Commission (Houston, TX)
Building Essential Skills through Training/ BayStateWorks (Massachusetts)
The Achieve Program (Cleveland, OH)
Goodwill Industries Transitional Jobs Program (San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin)
The Neighborhood Work Project (New York, NY)
Pioneer Human Services (Seattle, WA)
Cognitively Guided Instruction (Madison, WI)
The Holistic Management Project (Washington)
Resident and Community Services (Omaha, NE)
Warren Village (Denver, CO)
Career Pathways (Seattle-King County, WA)
Wisconsin Works (W-2) (Wisconsin)
Center for Employment Training (CET) (San Jose, CA)
Chicago Commons Employment Training Center (Chicago, IL)
Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) (Ohio)
Center for Employment Opportunities (New York, NY)
Career Academy
Job Corps (USA)
Supporting Adolescents with Guidance and Employment (SAGE) (Durham County, NC)
Anchorage Youth Court (Anchorage, AK)
Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA) (USA)
Father Friendly Initiative (Boston)
Hope Street Family Center- Family Literacy Program (Los Angeles)
Avon Park Youth Academy and Street Smart Program (Florida)
Avenues to Independence (ATI) (San Francisco, CA)
Employment Training Center (San Francisco, CA)
CAMINOS (San Francisco, CA)
Arriba Juntos (San Francisco, CA)
St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center Community-Building/Vocational Services Initiative (Syracuse, NY)
Assisted Competitive Employment Project (ACE) (Syracuse, NY)
Youth Opportunity Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
Why Murder? (Baltimore, MD)
Baystate-Springfield Educational Partnership (BSEP) (Springfield, MA)
LPN Education Partnership (Juab County, Utah)
HIRED (Minneapolis, MN)
Twin Cities RISE! (Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN)
RESOURCE (Minneapolis, MN)
Rebuild Resources (St. Paul, MN)
CYFAR New Communities Project (Idaho)
Developing Community Service Career Ladder Programs to Support Welfare-to-Work (Rhode Island)
Senior Community Service Employment Program (Princeton, WV)
The Summer Youth Fellows Program (Atlanta, GA)
Disability Awareness Training (San Diego, CA)
231 Change Teams (San Diego, CA)
Work Central Project (North Carolina)
Project RIO (Re-Integration of Offenders) (Texas)