All Ventures
Concentric Educational Solutions
Entrepreneur: David Heiber
Nonprofit | Founded: 2010 | Visit the Site
Concentric Educational Solutions provides school services targeting student culture, special education, mental health, and organizational development.
Connecticut Teacher Residency Program
Entrepreneur: Ushawnda Mitchell
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The mission of the Connecticut Teacher Residency Program is to provide college graduates with an alternate route to elementary certification based on a residency model that focuses on recruiting, preparing, increasing and sustaining minority teachers in elementary schools in the Hartford Region.
Crescent City Schools
Entrepreneur: Kate Mehok, Julie Lause
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Crescent City Schools is part of the movement that believes all students can and will learn, and that it is each school’s responsibility to provide an outstanding, high-quality education for every child. The mission of Crescent City Schools is to help students build the academic skills, personal values, and intellectual habits of mind to succeed in high school, college, and beyond.
CueThink
Entrepreneur: Sheela Sethuraman
For-profit | Visit the Site
CueThink was part of the Middle & High School Math Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported CueThink’s web and tablet application focused on improving critical thinking and math communication skills.
Curriculet
Entrepreneur: Jason Singer
For-profit | Founded: 2007 | Visit the Site
Funds supported Curriculet’s digital reading platform enabling teachers to deliver customized, Common Core-aligned learning and to digitally create and share their curriculum and lesson materials.
DC Preparatory Academy
Entrepreneur: Emily Lawson
Nonprofit | Founded: 2003 | Visit the Site
DC Preparatory Academy is a charter management organization serving over 1,000 students in Washington, DC. DC Preparatory Academy seeks to increase educational opportunities for children in DC by operating high-quality schools that emphasize rigorous academics and character development.
Decision Science Labs
Entrepreneur: Victor Reinoso
For-profit | Founded: 2013 | Visit the Site
Funds supported Decision Science Labs work to support education leaders in making smarter resource allocation decisions.
Detroit Prep
Entrepreneur: Kyle Smitley, Jennifer McMillan
Nonprofit | Founded: 2015 | Visit the Site
Detroit Prep is a public charter school in Detroit, MI that will eventually serve over 500 students in grades K-8. Detroit Prep builds on the curricular framework of Expeditionary Learning, a rigorous project-based learning model to challenge students with high-level cognitive tasks and active roles in their classrooms and communities.
Disruptive Partners, Intl
Entrepreneur: Anashay Wright
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
What happens when Pahara & EDLOC meet historically ignored leaders of color? You get Disruptive Partners. Disruptive Partners (DP) is a Black-owned leadership development firm, committed to developing an exponential number of high-impact leaders at the local level. We identify leaders of color that bring a wide range of diverse talents, skills, and lived experiences critical to influencing real change within the Black community. As your premier executive talent pipeline for racially diverse communities, we create sustainable impact by activating, learning from, and leveraging the untapped power in our communities. We are your Pahara & EDLOC for “The Hood, Which Is My Hood!”
District of Columbia International School
Entrepreneur: Mary Shaffner
Nonprofit | Founded: 2012 | Visit the Site
District of Columbia International School (DCI) is a public charter school in Washington, DC that will eventually serve over 400 students in grades 11-12. DCI inspires inquiring, engaged, knowledgeable and caring secondary students who are multi-lingual, culturally competent, and committed to proactively creating a socially just and sustainable world. DCI focuses on language immersion and inquiry-based learning and is an authorized IB World School for the Middle Years Program.
DREAMS KC
Entrepreneur: Catina Taylor
Nonprofit | Founded: 2012 | Visit the Site
DREAMS KC is a comprehensive whole child elementary school model serving students in a pilot setting in Kansas City, MO.
DSST Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Bill Kurtz
Nonprofit | Founded: 2001 | Visit the Site
DSST Public Schools serves over 1,000 students in the Denver, CO area. NewSchools Venture Fund partnership with DSST began with a grant in January 2009 to help them build their home office operations.
E.L. Haynes Public Charter School
Entrepreneur: Jennifer Niles
Nonprofit | Founded: 2004 | Visit the Site
E.L. Haynes Public Charter School is a charter management organization serving 800 students in grades K-8 in Washington, DC.
EdFuel
Entrepreneur: Kelly Gleischman
Nonprofit | Founded: 2013 | Visit the Site
EdFuel seeks to attract, develop, and retain the next generation of education reform leaders, with an intentional focus on “beyond the classroom” roles.
Edquity
Entrepreneur: David Helene
For-profit | Visit the Site
Edquity was part of the Future of Work Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Edquity’s college financial matching, planning, FAFSA completion, financial aid award evaluation, and success platform for high school and college students, supporting students through each and every financial decision on the long road to college graduation.
EdSurge
Entrepreneur: Betsy Corcoran
For-profit | Founded: 2011 | Visit the Site
Funds supported EdSurge’s work to help all stakeholders understand why, when and how technology can–and cannot–support better teaching and learning.
