Tomorrow's Leaders New York City
Supporting Over-Age Students to Increase Matriculation and Employment
Fast Facts
New York City
Alan Kern
2021, 2022-23, 2024, 2025
Education
How Tomorrow's Leaders New York City (TLNYC) Is Making a Difference
TLNYC helps over-age middle school and high school students, many of whom have been held back due to personal trauma, to increase their GPAs, advance their education, have greater opportunities for employment and become productive members of society.
Free during-and-after school programs provide tutoring and other valuable learning skills that help these students prepare for higher education, careers and community involvement.
TLNYC has the support of schools and colleges, as well as corporate and non-profit collaborations, to achieve its goals.
What TLNYC Does
- Provides 1-on-1 mentoring and academic support paired with workshops in leadership, financial literacy, conflict resolution and work readiness — all as essential elements of TLNYC’s High School Success Program (HSSP).
- Uses college interns and specialists to help these students thrive and to engage their families in the support process.
- Provides specific involvement during the gap year for middle school graduates entering high school.
- Emphasizes student responsibility for community service and helps ready students to become productive members of society.
- Engages schools, educators and New York City borough officials in the program.
Initiatives Supported by Project Redwood
2021: $30,000 to support the program’s expansion into Queens by providing salary, technology resources, and recruitment of interns and specialists.
2022-23: $30,000 to fund an increased service capacity for the High School Success Program (HSSP) to support continuity during the gap between middle and high school.
2024: $55,000 in an Impact Grant to support strengthening TLNYC’s strategic planning, board development and governance, financial management, and fundraising functions, so that TLNYC can sustain and scale its impact in populations it serves.
2025: $40,000 to support the participation of a third cohort of held-back, at-risk middle school graduates in HSSP to get back on track and progress in education, career and community.