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Yass Prize 2023 Application Now Open

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Yass Prize 2023 Launch at Forbes on Fifth

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Introducing Yass Prize Year in Review

Annual Report

Webinar for Yass Prize Applicants! April 6 at 12:00pm EST. RSVP here!

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Yass Prize 2023 Launch at Forbes on Fifth

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Webinar for Yass Prize Applicants! April 6 at 12:00pm EST. RSVP here!

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Members of the Yass Prize community are making waves.

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Join us for the announcement of the $1 MILLION Yass Prize winner December 14, LIVE from Forbes on 5th in New York City!

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The $1 Million Yass Prize celebrates the country’s education provider which best demonstrates the STOP principles. In conjunction with The Yass Prize, the STOP Awards initiative provides over $20 million in support annually to honor educators who achieve excellence.

2023 Yass Prize Launch

The Yass Prize, in partnership with Forbes Media, kicked off this year’s search for the next $1M winner, in New York, New York. If you missed this not-to-be-missed event with CEO Steve Forbes, Yass Prize Founder Janine Yass and our incredible current awardees, watch it here and get inspired about the future of Education.
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Are you the next Yass Prize winner?

 If you’re an education entrepreneur who is meeting the needs of your students and their families in innovative ways, you could win $1 million! We’ll soon be looking for the next cohort of hidden heroes in education who stop at nothing for their students. Applications will be open soon!
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Common Sense Goes to Washington

Yass Prize awardees and alumni reunited in Washington DC for two jam-packed days to fill the hearts and minds of members of Congress, Governors and their teams with their views on what it takes to foster an environment of innovation, opportunity and success for the nation’s students. 
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First STOP on the Yass Prize Roadshow

Too many students in American education are forgotten or written off. SailFuture will have none of that. Come aboard a school that does more with less for its “forgotten” students where the classroom is on a boat!
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— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —

Key Dates & Happenings

1
April 20, 2022
2022 Competition Window Opens
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July 25, 2022
2022 Award Applications Due
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October
Quarterfinalists Announced
4
December
STOP Award Finalist Celebration & Yass Prize Winner Announced
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The Yass Foundation for Education advances the four core STOP principles: Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education. Each year, the Foundation will reward dozens of organizations, building a growing network of innovative providers that
demonstrate these qualities in their commitment to new ideas, technologies, and approaches to learning that bring education into
the 21st century. The Foundation is powered by the Center for Education Reform (CER) in partnership with Forbes.

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We often jump to the what, without thinking with the community about the why.

Michael B. Horn
Author,
From Reopen to Reinvent

I'm deeply humbled and grateful to be part of this group.

The last month has been a tremendous experience and I'm so inspired and motivated by the amazing work this group is doing. Collectively, we’re working towards a real-world goal and it’s leaving me empowered and motivated to apply what we learn.

Jeffrey Imrich
Co-Founder,
Rock by Rock

I hope you all think about the fact that the impact you are having, you will never even know how widespread it is.

That’s the beauty of education, you impact lives in such a deep way.

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Co-Host on The View and CNN Political Commentator,

When you are trying to advance and think beyond the status quo, this can be a lonely place, because our systems are structured to do the same thing.

It is important to surround yourself with like-minded individuals who foster innovation.

Phyllis Lockett
CEO,
LEAP Innovations

The pandemic didn’t stop our families, scholars and educators from learning, growing and thriving.

Patricia Brantley
CEO,
Friendship Public Charter School

Success happens after many pivots and changes.

Michael Moe
Founder and CEO,
Global Silicon Valley

What is good for families is good for the school because families want great schools.

Ceci Schickel
Senior Director of Organizing and Advocacy,
Mastery Charter School

There are so many heroes who responded to the Covid crisis in the education sector.

You were focused on kids and families. You did what you had to do and we are so grateful for that. We created this award to honor your work and we knew if we built it you would come.

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

The fact that education has become partisan is upsetting, and I just hope that this award will encourage more states to view this as a bipartisan issue.

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

The real source of wealth in society is the human mind, not material things, because with the human mind, great wealth can be created.

Steve Forbes
Editor-in-Chief,
Forbes Media

Entrepreneurs are the engine of the innovation economy.

The work this remarkable group has accomplished is not only inspirational but can be transformative for millions more students.

Michael Moe
Founder and CEO,
Global Silicon Valley

The Yass Prize shines an important light on the heroes of education who fought valiantly to serve students and were often overlooked or dismissed.

It’s our commitment that their example is seen, learned about and replicated all over the nation.

Jeanne Allen
Founder and CEO,
Center for Education Reform

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