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We recently "graduated" Bright Star Schools as our first multi-year investee! Our current investees include environmental nonprofits Healthy Child Healthy World and TreePeople.
The investee from our 2009 selection process will be chosen by year end. See details below on our current and former investees.
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Bright Star Schools (Former Investee)
Bright Star's Mission: At Bright Star Schools, we open minds and doors. Our schools provide a rigorous college-preparatory education, offer individual attention and teach skills necessary to make good life choices. Through Bright Star’s culture of personal responsibility, respect and accountability, students learn to be conscientious, compassionate and creative members of our diverse communities.
The... Read more |
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Healthy Child Healthy World
Founded in 1992, Healthy Child Healthy World is focused on awareness-building and advocacy to protect the health and well-being of children from harmful environmental exposures. They educate parents, support protective policies, and engage communities to make responsible decisions and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish. The organization’s 2007-08 budget is $1.2... Read more |
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Inner City Education Foundation (Former Investee)
ICEF is a non-profit operator of charter schools in South Los Angeles that provides a rigorous college preparatory education to its students, and is working to significantly increase the number of college graduates in the community. ICEF’s programs are built around a culture of high expectations and innovative educational approaches, including the “Accelerated Schools” model. At the core, the education model... Read more |
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KIPP LA Schools (Former Investee)
The mission of KIPP LA Schools is to teach the academic skills, foster the intellectual habits, and cultivate the character traits needed for our students to thrive in high school, college, and life. Through the success of our students, the KIPP LA team and family will serve as a model of excellence and collaborate with others to raise the quality of education in Los Angeles.
KIPP LA Schools is part of the larger KIPP network of... Read more |
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TreePeople
For more than 30 years, TreePeople’s mission has been to inspire the people of Los Angeles to take personal responsibility for the urban forest. Today, TreePeople has further refined its vision: to transform every neighborhood of Los Angeles into a functioning community forest.
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