Applications for our annual STOP Awards including the prestigious $1 million dollar Yass Prize are now open. Applications are due July 25th, 2022.
— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —
Key Dates & Happenings
The mission of the STOP Awards is to identify and support more best in class education providers who can tackle the challenges and deliver an education for students that is Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding and Permissionless. The STOP Foundation for Education is not just a philanthropy. And the STOP Award is not just a prize. It’s a movement intended to transform education for everyone.
In 2022, the Yass Foundation will award more than $16 million in grants to new and alumni organizations, including the prestigious $1 million Yass Prize to transform education, given to the group that most exemplifies the STOP 4 Education principles.
The inaugural semi-finalists participated in a 4-week business accelerator where they had access to the best of the best. With intimate access to one another, to innovators and entrepreneurs in the field, they strengthened their knowledge and their pitch, from idea generation to implementation. Their “teachers” included such notables as GSV Founder Michael Moe and his team, Forbes Editor Randall Lane and American journalist Moira Forbes, Hoque Global CEO Mike Hoque and Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell.
At the celebratory final event, the vibrancy and the excitement behind the culmination of the 4 month process for the cohort was palpable. The work and experiences demonstrated during the accelerator were so inspiring that STOP Award Founder Janine Yass was moved to reward all of them. In the end, $3.5 million was distributed to 20 outstanding organizations representing diverse kinds of education – public, private, charter, microschools, edtech and community groups. The energy, and the excellence had a captivating impact on all involved. The 2021 Cohort’s invaluable bond continues in development of several new partnerships which are creating expanded and more innovative opportunities for students across their borders.
STOP Award winners have the opportunity to collaborate and impact the development of STOP-enabled efforts long after the initial program is over with national exposure and access to the media, representing the STOP Award at global events, becoming contributors on Forbes.com and informing policy makers on how best to replicate their work.
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The Chicago RESCUE grants, part of the STOP Awards, were launched within days of the January 2022 Chicago schools crisis to quickly grant funds to schools and educators ready and able to take in students ill-served by the Chicago Public Schools.
Applications were accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis through January 14th, and award announcements were made daily to public and private education institutions who had capacity and interest in expanding quickly to meet the needs of new students not well-served by the Chicago Public School system. In less than a month, $5 million was awarded to 28 organizations – private, Catholic, charter and community groups – who had agreed to serve more than 1200 students. A worthwhile endeavor, the STOP Foundation nevertheless believes that no child should have to be rescued. All students deserve access to a STOP education, throughout the whole of their school years.
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2022 STOP Awards Key Dates & Happenings
