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$10 Million STOP Awards Competition Announced

  • April 20, 2022

Applications Opened Today For Grants That Will Award Transformational Education 

NEW YORK – April 20, 2022 – During an exclusive event at Forbes on Fifth in New York City today, Forbes and the Center for Education Reform (CER) announced the STOP Awards for the second year in their partnership to support efforts to transform education. This year’s STOP Awards will offer more than $10 million in grants – including the prestigious $1 million Yass Prize – to education innovators, providers and entrepreneurs who are providing an education experience that is Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding and Permissionless to all students. 

In 2021, the STOP Award was created to transform education and advance the work of 20 exceptional education providers that continued to perform for underserved families despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, providing educational experiences that are Sustainable, Transformational and Outstanding for students in Permissionless settings (in short, STOP). 

Following the success of these awards in 2021, the STOP Awards have evolved into the establishment of the STOP Foundation 4 Education. Founded by Janine Yass and her husband Jeff, the STOP Foundation 4 Education not only rewards innovators in the education space but amplifies their work through numerous experiences and an extensive mentorship network. 

“In the wake of COVID-19, educational declines and mental health challenges, the 2022 STOP Awards are dedicated to celebrating and expanding the education providers who are going above and beyond for their students,” said Forbes Chief Content Officer & Editor, Randall Lane. “We’re proud to continue our partnership with the Center for Education Reform and help launch the STOP Foundation 4 Education to honor education innovators who are creating new pathways for underserved students across the country.”

As part of this partnership, STOP Award representatives will be contributing content to Forbes.com centered around education innovation and transformational education.

“Overcoming the deficiencies in education for most students in the past two years is an enormous undertaking, and while COVID is not nearly the threat it once was, challenges remain,” said CER’s Founder and CEO Jeanne Allen. “In 2021, we uncovered hundreds of pioneering education providers who were defying the odds and serving as a beacon for what education can and should look like, and I can’t wait to promote the efforts of more outstanding leaders in 2022.”

Applications – limited to US-based individuals or groups who serve K-12 students – are open through July 15, 2022.  For more information about the STOP Award, how to apply, and the incredible education providers who made last year’s list of finalists, visit STOP Foundation 4 Education.

The 2021 Stop Award Grand Prize winner, The Discovery Center of Springfield, was announced during Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list launch party in New York City in December.

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The Yass Foundation 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.

We realized long ago that there’s a lot of money in the system, and it’s just not directed to the children.

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

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

Patricia Brantley
CEO,
Friendship Public Charter School

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

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

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

Michael B. Horn
Author,
From Reopen to Reinvent

What has been created here at the accelerator is truly incredible.

We may never know how pivotal this really is for education in America right here, right now. This group of people will work together to force real change permissionlessly.

Rob Blevins
Executive Director,
Discovery Center of Springfield

We may not agree on much of anything, but one thing that is a uniting force that we all agree on is that education opens doors, it’s the great equalizer.

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

Success happens after many pivots and changes.

Michael Moe
Founder and CEO,
Global Silicon Valley

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

Remember, you are doing the work of civilization.

You are planting the seeds of a better world, despite any bad news, you’re doing great things.

Steve Forbes
Editor-in-Chief,
Forbes Media

Unfortunately, the bureaucracy that’s behind the school system is more interested in perpetuating jobs and keeping the system in place, rather than giving children the freedom they deserve.

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

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,

You are in a moment in history that we have never seen before.

Any of us with a disruptive idea have a shot at trying to prove something.

Randall Lane
Chief Content Officer,
Forbes Media

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

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

Entrepreneurs are people who teach us about needs we don’t know we need.

This is the fundamental basis of what we are doing.

Carl Schramm
University Professor,
Syracuse University

I am still processing the magnitude of this experience and so grateful for meeting each and everyone of you.

I look forward to continuing our transformative work in our communities and together.

Taylor Shead
Board Member,
Dallas Education Foundation

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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