Curriki
Curriki is a K-12 open source web site where members can find open source, educational content, post curricular resources, and work collaboratively with other educators.

The Child Center of NY - Parsons Beacon
To meet the needs of the community through free programs and space for youth, adults and organizations; and to promote positive youth development.

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The Beacon's mission is to give young people a safe haven full of unique opportunities. Here they will be empowered by programs inspiring their active and creative minds. We stress the total development of each individual: intellectually, socially, emotionally, and physically.

Urban Education Exchange
Our sole objective at Urban Education Exchange is to eliminate the achievement gap in reading. We support our network of urban educators with a precise, proven methodology for teaching reading comprehension – ensuring that urban students have the necessary literacy skills to compete and succeed in life.

Girls Write Now
Founded in 1998, our mission is to provide a safe space for girls to explore and develop their creative, independent voices, and learn how to make healthy choices in school, career and life.

TLC for Kids
Providing better educational materials for all children

The Writers' Express
To give our least privileged students the power to explore their ideas, the skills to communicate them clearly, and the conviction that the world wants to hear them.Since 1994, The Writers’ Express has been teaching schools to use writing to transform the literacy skills of underserved students. Through a highly-structured instructional method, students learn the fundamental behavioral habits they need to focus on the work at hand, the academic engagement required to take their education seriously, and the core writing skills to communicate their ideas clearly and persuasively.

Behind the Book
Behind the Book’s mission is to excite children and young adults about reading. Working with low-income students in New York City’s K-12 public schools, Behind the Book brings authors and their books into individual classrooms to build literacy skills and nurture a new generation of book readers. Our authors and illustrators work closely with teachers and administrators to integrate the books with the class curriculum and often make several visits to the classrooms. Students are given copies of the books well in advance of the visit to allow time for classroom study and discussion of the literature.

We make reading something more than schoolwork—we make reading something kids truly enjoy.

Rhythm, Rhyme, Results
RRR creates supplementary educational media that makes no compromises in substance or style. Using a network of over 25 creative professionals from Boston, New York, Atlanta, and beyond, we currently focus on producing educational rap music that blends required state and federal curricula standards with commercial-grade lyricism and music.

Our current library includes full-length albums in math, science, language arts, and social studies, targeting students in grades 6-12.

Reach Out and Read of Greater New York
To make literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric primary care so that children grow up with books and a love of reading.

Flocabulary
Flocabulary uses the educational power of hip-hop music to foster literacy and promote academic success in the classroom and beyond. Through a range of multimedia products and live performance programs, we bring our concept of music and learning to students and teachers worldwide.

Reach Out and Read
Reach Out and Read makes literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric care so that children grow up with books and a love of reading.Reach Out and Read trains doctors and nurses to advise parents about the importance of reading aloud and to give books to children at pediatric check-ups from six months to five years of age. A special focus is placed on children growing up in poverty. By building on the unique relationship between parents and medical providers, Reach Out and Read helps families and communities cultivate early literacy skills so that children enter school prepared to succeed at reading.

Project Cicero

Project Cicero is a partnership of independent, public, and parochial schools, private and public organizations and corporations whose primary goal is to supplement or create classroom and school libraries for children in under-resourced New York City public schools through an annual citywide book drive. Project Cicero also puts books into homeless shelters, juvenile detention facilities, community centers, and wherever else there is a need. This past year, its seventh year of operation, Project Cicero distributed 140,000 books. To date, Project Cicero has placed nearly 1,000,000 into 5,500 classrooms and school libraries reaching 180,000 children in under-resourced schools in New York City.

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Classroom Inc
Classroom, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to transforming and improving learning for underserved middle and high school students.Recent studies indicate that millions of students in the United States struggle to succeed at their grade level. Classroom, Inc. addresses this problem. We seek to improve reading and math skills for middle and high school students by developing engaging, content-rich programs and by training and supporting teachers to use these programs.Classroom, Inc.’s programs turn classrooms into learning environments that motivate students through innovative teaching methods and materials based on the idea that young people learn better when they are compelled by their work.

Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service
The Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service strives to empower its clients to achieve greater economic self-sufficiency and more rewarding participation in the community through programs that nurture and strengthen families, protect children, and enable individuals with disabilities to achieve their full potential. Through these services and advocacy, the Brooklyn Bureau works to build stronger and healthier individuals, families, and communities.

Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Restoration), is the oldest community development corporation (CDC) in the United States. Founded in 1967 through the efforts of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Jacob Javits, our mission is to be the catalyst for the progressive improvement of the quality of life for the people of Bedford Stuyvesant. We carry out this mission through economic, cultural, educational and social ventures that both revitalize our communities and serve as pioneering models for distressed communities nationwide.

Reading Excellence and Discovery (READ) Foundation
READ employs one-on-one research-based reading instruction to prepare at-risk children to become proficient readers. READ recruits, trains and employs teens to teach reading skills to their younger peers who are struggling with learning to read. READ targets economically disadvantaged students and teens.

Urban Word NYC
Urban Word NYC™ (UW) exists to ensure that New York City youth have a safe, supportive, dynamic and challenging community in which to discover their powerful voices - through written and spoken word - and use them to express their views, strengthen self-esteem and engage them in opportunities that address the socio-political issues that affect them.

UW provides free and uncensored writing and performance opportunities to youth in all five boroughs of New York City. Our workshops are designed to develop critical thinking skills, leadership, and to ignite a personal commitment to growth and learning which leads to heightened in-school performance, and a greater interest in pursuing higher education.