Our Ventures
To learn more about NewSchools' portfolio ventures, scroll down the list below and click on their icons to reach their Web sites. You can also filter these organizations by type, the NewSchools Fund they were included in, and their geographic location. To learn about job openings at our ventures, click here.
New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS)
New leaders for New Schools (NLNS) was founded in 2000 on a simple premise: great schools are led by great principals. NLNS is a nonprofit that recruits talented individuals with strong leadership potential – both from within and outside of school districts – and trains them to become outstanding urban school principals.
Teachscape
Teachscape provides professional development programs to teachers, principals, and school leaders. Founded in 1999 as a for-profit company, Teachscape seeks to to help educators become more effective at raising the academic achievement of their students.
Teach For America (TFA)
Teach For America (TFA) was founded in 1990 with the mission of enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the movement to eliminate educational inequality. TFA recruits recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools in our nation's lowest-income communities.
The New Teacher Project (TNTP)
The New Teacher Project (TNTP) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of outstanding individuals who become public school teachers and to creating environments for all educators that maximize their impact on student achievement. Since 1997, TNTP has partnered with school districts, state education agencies, colleges and universities, and other educational entities to accomplish these goals.