The Yass Prize has empowered our youth, families and community by bringing great visibility to our efforts.

It's actually mind blowing. I really see myself as an education entrepreneur, but this expanded me.

from all different demographics, all different states, all different service provider types that you can learn from.

The funding is not following children. We're trying to make better options for kids, for poor kids, middle class kids. Wealthy people have this choice, they opt out of their systems easily, why shouldn't all children have that choice?

It’s thanks to organizations like the Yass Prize that our children are going to have a better tomorrow.

We don’t want you to rinse, wash, repeat. We want you to build and sustain.

And through that, we were able to open up our second campus in the city of Wichita.

When we originally applied, we simply provided supplemental support services to homeschooling families. Now, we are growing into an education network that provides community, coaching, and curriculum nationwide.

It's given us an opportunity to start critical discussions with our congregations, parents, community leaders and members, about the laws that govern education in Pennsylvania.

focusing on what we know is important for kids really works, and having a network of people now that also agree was super huge.