Google.org Awards Robin Hood Million Dollar Grant for Education and Poverty Initiatives

Google.org Awards Robin Hood Million Dollar Grant for Education and Poverty Initiatives

To: EDUCATION AND NATIONAL EDITORS

NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robin Hood, New York City's largest private misery fighting organization, announced that it has perceived a $1,000,000 extend from Google.org to assistance serve Robin Hood's goal of fighting misery in New York City. The income will be used in 3 ways: (1) to assistance tighten a feat opening in math in dozens of schools in some of New York's lowest neighborhoods; (2) to assistance account and supply state-of-the-art scholarship labs during schools in a Bronx and Harlem; and, (3) to yield appropriation for a breakthrough, long-term misery study, that will capacitate Robin Hood and other organizations to improved know a needs and efficacy of poverty-fighting measures.

"We are anxious to work with Google.org on issues that are critically critical to hundreds of thousands of New York families," pronounced David Saltzman, executive executive of Robin Hood. "Through a joining to portion a open good, Google is going to make a genuine disproportion in improving a lives of large families, and we are deeply elegant of their support."

Part of a Google.org extend will go toward schools that are creation good strides in assisting to tighten a feat opening in arithmetic between affluent students and their disadvantaged peers. These schools are located via New York City and learn tighten to 14,000 students. In addition, portions of a extend will assistance erect scholarship labs during both KIPP NYC College Prep High School in a Bronx and Dream Charter School in East Harlem

In addition, Google.org is contributing easily to a Poverty Index Study that Robin Hood is conducting in partnership with Columbia University. The plan will emanate a misery magnitude that some-more accurately marks a needs of bad families and people over income, to embody hunger, homelessness, and other element deprivations. It will also emanate a bound database of 1,500 families who will be frequently surveyed to establish their long-term progress. The consult formula will assistance Robin Hood to some-more accurately consider and residence a needs of bad New Yorkers and will concede Robin Hood as good as other internal and inhabitant organizations to urge programs designed to lift people out of poverty.

About Robin Hood

For some-more than 20 years, Robin Hood has fought misery in New York City. It finds, supports and partners with programs that have proven to be an effective pill to misery and is a unchanging force for good in a lives of New Yorkers in need. Robin Hood employs a severe complement of metrics and third-party analysis to safeguard burden from organizations that accept a funds. The house pays all executive and fundraising costs, so 100% of donations go directly to assisting New Yorkers in need. It works closely with groups that accept grants to make them some-more effective, enabling them to support even some-more people. In 2010, Robin Hood invested over $132 million in some-more than 200 programs and schools, directly touching a lives of over 650,000 New Yorkers.

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