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Founded in 1983, the mission of Writers in the Schools (WITS) is to engage children in the joy and power of reading and writing. WITS was founded through the University of Houston's renowned creative writing program to bring some of our nation's most talented writers into school and community classrooms to make a meaningful impact on the lives of children. The WITS program is an effective force for educational change, integrating arts and education to ignite a love of learning in more than 400,000 children and their teachers since its founding. WITS leads an international movement for creative learning, helping children and teachers across the world explore literacy in creative ways.

Communities In Schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

To elevate student engagement, and expand the role of music in education by making purposeful, inclusive music a joyful and integral part of literacy, academic, and social-emotional learning throughout the school day, and beyond. We accomplish this by training and equipping inspired educators to integrate hands-on music and songs for learning with classroom instruction, activities, transitions, support services, and building classroom communities. ​Our unique, developmental approach nurtures creative and effective teaching practices through free weekly professional development (PD) courses in ukulele, guitar, and classroom implementation, as well as capacity-building co-teaching artist residencies, intensive workshops, in-service trainings, conference presentations, after school music clubs, and specialized services in adaptive music for inclusion.

Communities In Schools (CIS) is the nation’s leading dropout prevention organization, with a mission to surround students with a community of support empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. For more than 30 years, CIS has connected needed community resources with schools. By bringing caring adults and a wide variety of services into schools to address children’s unmet needs, CIS provides a linkbetween educators and the community. The results of CIS’s model are that teachers are free to teach and students, many at risk of dropping out, have the opportunity to focus on learning. To help students stay in school, we identify and bring together in one place – public schools – all the resources and services available in the community that kids need to be successful. These services vary from one community to the next and from state to state and address specific needs such as academic support, mentoring, health care, family strengthening, career development, summer and after-school programs, alternative education models, and service learning. Today, the CIS network is comprised of nearly 5,000 passionate professionals working in close to 200 local affiliate nonprofits in 27 states and the District of Columbia, as well as 53,000 community volunteers, serving 1.2 million young people in more than 2,400 schools around the nation.

Yeshiva High School for Girls Inc, aka Ma'ayanot, is a Yeshiva and college preparatory high school for girls dedicated to the following objectives: to foster the development of a Torah personality: -whose life decisions are guided by the values and traditions of a Halakhically committed community -who strives to build a personal relationship with God through fulfillment of מצות, study and reflection -who is committed to acting with integrity, compassion and respect in her relationships with people -whose general conduct is informed by both a love and fear of hashem to provide an academically stimulating and challenging program that: -promotes active, critical, and creative thought -fosters both the discipline and joy of learning -sharpens the student's ability to communicate articulately and effectively -encourages collaborative intellectual activity and respect for the opinions of others to provide curricular and co-curricular programs that: -tap a variety of student strengths and talents -develop the student's proficiency in the use of technology and other resources -encourage the development of leadership qualities, initiative and teamwork to foster in the student the development of: -self-awareness and self respect -a sense of responsibility for personal academic achievement -an appreciation for her ability to impact on her environment to foster in the student an awareness of: -her membership in various communities including family, school, Jewish nation, the united states and the world at large -her obligations and commitments to those communities -the centrality of Israel in her life -the rich texture of the world around her to attract teachers who: -possess superior academic credentials -demonstrate broad-based knowledge coupled with expertise in their specific disciplines -exhibit personal integrity and commitment to the philosophy of the school -employ effective pedagogic strategies to meet the individual needs of students -strive to grow professionally and to share their expertise with their colleagues