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Applications for our annual STOP Awards including the prestigious $1 million dollar Yass Prize are now open. Applications are due July 25th, 2022.

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— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —

Key Dates & Happenings

1
April 20, 2022
2022 Competition Window Opens
2
July 25, 2022
2022 Award Applications Due
3
September
Quarterifinalists Announced
4
December
STOP Award Finalist Celebration & Yass Prize Winner Announced

The STOP Awards include
the prestigious $1 million
Yass Prize, the Pulitzer prize
for education, named for
founders Janine & Jeff Yass.

The STOP Awards include
the prestigious $1 million
Yass Prize, the Pulitzer prize
for education, named for
founders Janine & Jeff Yass.

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.

What does STOP stand for?

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The Experience

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.

Alumni Grants

The twenty diverse education providers that make up the cohort of the inaugural STOP Award competition were plotting and planning new and innovative expansion efforts long before the finalists were announced, often together! The Alumni Program was created to boost the efforts of the first STOP-certified providers to expand their work not only locally but across state lines. This year, $5 million in Alumni Grants are available. Funds available will multiply in proportion to the winning prizes in future years. The hope and expectation is not only that the STOP Awardees will succeed in their future efforts, but that they will promote and advocate for the ability to do so – without permission – anywhere parents want and students need it.

This year.

$5MM

in Alumni Grants are available

Alumni Grants will

multiply in proportion

to the winning prizes in the years to come

2021 alumni are joining forces

and collaborating to further transform the field of education

Rescue Grants

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.

In less than a month,

$5MM

was awarded to 28 organizations

These organizations represented.

diverse education experiences

– Private, Catholic, and charter schools

Together, the 28 organizations, took in

1,200 students

Are you involved with an innovative education provider delivering unique value
and impact to learners? Submit your application now for the 2022 STOP Awards!

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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

We see the Pulitzer prizes, we see the MacArthur Genius Grants, we see the Pritzker prize for architecture.

But for the one field that drives everything, education, there is no definitive prize. The Yass Prize has filled that vacuum -- it's more than just the money. It's about spurring ideas, it's about spurring innovation. We are very very proud to be a part of it.

—Randall Lane,
Editor,
Forbes

We are so inspired by the STOP Award participants, semi-finalists, and the courage, innovation and leadership of educators from across the country who have amplified the application of their brilliance to make the lives of their students better as they faced the daunting challenges of the pandemic.

—Mike Hoque,
CEO,
Hoque Global

It's not the university someone graduated from or the degree they hold.

Do they have the resilience and perseverance? Do they have grit? It's the most important skill.

—Joy Chen,
Entrepreneur In Residence,
GSV Ventures

The STOP Award 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

Our STOP Award partnership with Forbes and CER has been one of the best things we’ve done in education over the past 25 years.

—Janine Yass,
Chair,
STOP Foundation 4 Education

If you get to the accelerator after the application process, go in knowing you already won.

The fact that you are now with a group of your peers you really get to see how world class the education profession is.

—Christopher Simmonds,
Principal,
CARE Elementary School

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2022 STOP Awards Key Dates & Happenings

1
Late September

64 Quarter-Finalists Announced

2
Mid October

32 Semi-Finalists Announced

3
Early December

5 Finalists Announced

4
Mid December

STOP Award Finalist Celebration and Yass Prize Winner Announced

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