— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —
Key Dates & Happenings
The mission of the Yass Prize and STOP Awards Initiative is to identify and support more best in class education providers who can tackle the big education challenges of the day and deliver an education for students that is Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding and Permissionless. It’s more than an awards program or a philanthropic endeavor. It’s a movement intended to transform education for everyone.
In 2022, the Yass Foundation for Education 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 principles.
Each cohort of Yass Prize semifinalists participate in a 4-week business accelerator where they have 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” have included such notables as GSV Founder Michael Moe and his team, LEAP Innovations founder Phyllis Lockett, Author Michael Horn, Forbes Editor Randall Lane and American journalist Moira Forbes, All Raise CEO Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon, Hoque Global CEO Mike Hoque and Paul Quinn College President Michael Sorrell. Read more about the accelerator here.
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.
The cohort has 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 Yass Prize and STOP Awards at global events, becoming contributors on Forbes.com and informing policy makers on how best to replicate their work.
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In January 2022, the Chicago RESCUE grants were launched within days of the 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. You can read more about the Chicago Rescue grant recipients here.
In 2022, the STOP for Arizona Education Awards was created to reward Arizona education providers who could best support and scale to provide opportunities for more families now able to use the state’s pioneering Empowerment Scholarship Accounts for their students. An initial commitment of $500,000 was made for one grand prize honoring Governor Doug Ducey’s efforts to give families unprecedented power over their children’s education, and $100,000 to each of five other outstanding education providers. Then, upon learning of the great work happening and to accelerate the expansion of critical learning opportunities for students, Janine and Jeff Yass made an incredible gesture to double the awards.
Congratulations to the $1 million Ducey Award winner Science Prep Academy. Congrats to the STOP for Arizona Education Award winners – Kino School, Love Your School, Our Lady of the Lake, St. John the Evangelist, and St. Mary-Basha.
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 Yass Foundation for Education 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,
was awarded to 28 organizations
These organizations represented.
– Private, Catholic, and charter schools
Together, the 28 organizations, took in
2022 STOP Awards Key Dates & Happenings
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