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We are City Scholars® Foundation.

We believe every child deserves a quality education regardless of their zip code or family income.

Our passion for equity in education drives everything we do.

Our MISSION

We help education nonprofits thrive to give thousands of low-income youth, particularly those of color, a better chance to learn and achieve against the odds.

Raise Your Hand for Education

Our Work Matters

In high-poverty, under-resourced neighborhoods, quality education nonprofits help young people succeed both in and out of the classroom.

To survive and thrive, education nonprofits depend upon resourceful and resilient leaders who need more than heart to keep the lights on and the doors open.

Partnering with executive volunteer donors, we sponsor our City Scholars® Fellowship for Education, an innovative, tuition-free leadership and capacity building institute that provides ongoing 

Leadership Education, Coaching, Mentoring, Networking + Accountability

to help education nonprofit CEOs, who are distinguished as City Scholars® Foundation Fellows, lead well for the long haul creating impact from the inside out. 

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The City Scholars® Fellowship for Education teaches what defines an effective nonprofit, gives leaders concrete strategies to implement and holds us accountable to take action. Since 2014, when I was first selected as a Foundation Fellow, we’ve increased our annual revenues from $350,000 to over $1.7 million and now educate 2,500 more youth each year.

Bill Thompson, Executive Director
Young Storytellers
City Scholars® Foundation Fellow
Literacy & the Arts for 4,000 youth/year (94% low-income)
Los Angeles, Culver City and Hollywood

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Our STRATEGY works.

Within 2 - 3 years with our Fellowship for Education, more than 80% of Foundation Fellows report increased revenues and reach, more engaged boards and staff, greater financial sustainability and/or more impactful programs for the education nonprofits they lead.

By investing in and partnering with our Foundation Fellows, we're helping 21 critical education nonprofits thrive and over 50,000 low-income, high-potential youth each year throughout Southern California and beyond achieve against the odds.

Help us GIVE thousands more low-income youth the chance to learn they deserve.

100% of online donations directly fuel the exponential impact of our City Scholars® Fellowship for Education.

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