School partners

Springboard’s first push into the Central Valley landed us in Fresno Unified as the result of seed funding from Halloran Philanthropies and the Silver Giving Foundation. We specifically focused on under-performing African American students as part of the district’s achievement strategy for this subgroup.

In Summer 2018, Springboard served 210 students at one central hub school and provided technical assistance to middle school leaders who modified our curriculum and program structure to meet the literacy needs of 6th-8th graders. In partnership with district leaders, we be studied this program twist closely to gauge lessons learned that might later be applied to expand our program offerings to include middle-schoolers.

​In 2017, Springboard conducted programming in NYC for the first time. Our founding school partners included Public Prep, PAVE, and Global Community Charter School. Since then, we have also established partnerships with district schools in collaboration with the United Way, the Pinkerton Foundation, and the Heckscher Foundation for Children.

We were thrilled to more than triple Springboard’s reach in New York in just our second year there, and we are excited to see what else the future holds for us in the Big Apple.

Springboard expanded to Norwalk in 2018 by launching summer programming in partnership with Norwalk Public Schools and with anchor funding from the Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation. We were thrilled to build lasting capacity in 4 district schools, and we are eager to follow this successful launch with rapid growth and year-round programming to meet the needs of Norwalk school communities.

Springboard expanded to Oakland in 2015 in partnership with Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and Education For Change. We leveraged anchor funding from the GreenLight Fund, the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and the Rogers Family Foundation to launch this now-flourishing site.

In 2016, we introduced Springboard Afterschool, which helped accelerate reading progress for 134 students at 3 sites. By Summer 2017, we had expanded to serve 1,000+ students at 10 sites. We serve the East and West Oakland school OUSD.

Springboard Collaborative was founded in Philadelphia in 2012. Since our founding, we have partnered with the school district, charters, and Catholic schools, establishing many long-term relationships that are still going strong. Philadelphia is Springboard’s “test kitchen,” where we often pilot new offerings before rolling them out nationally. We are proud to participate in the city’s rich tradition of innovation!

Springboard launched a small pilot in collaboration with Salinas City Elementary District in Summer 2019 through which we served 86 K-5 scholars at one hub site. Participants averaged an astonishing5.8 months of reading gains, and we also achieved 88.3% family workshop attendance.

We are currently in discussions with Salinas City leadership to determine the scope of our partnership for Summer 2020.

Through a partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District, Springboard launched in San Francisco in Summer 2017 as a single-site pilot in the Bayview neighborhood. Based on the pilot’s initial success —and boosted by a 5-year investment from San Francisco’s Department of Children, Youth and their Families—Springboard  expanded to serve 960 scholars and their families across 8 elementary schools in Summer 2018. Springboard classrooms also act as training ground for new teachers from the district’s internal credentialing program; these new teachers support Springboard teachers with instruction.

Springboard launched our partnership with Stockton Unified in Summer 2019. Our launch was bold, as we served 916 K-5 scholars across 8 school communities. The program generated an average of 3.7 months of reading gains for Stockton's young scholars during the 5-week intervention.

Based on our initial success, the district contracted with Springboard to facilitate Springboard Afterschool for 540 scholars across 10 school communities starting in early 2020.

Springboard Collaborative was first brought to the nation’s capital through a partnership with DC Public Schools in 2016. This partnership quickly became one of our fastest-growing relationships, and the District is now one of our oldest sites. Since our partnership has been so fruitful, we chose to pilot Springboard Independent in DC in Summer 2019—an experience that is helping us expand our impact in meaningful and cost-effective ways in DC and beyond.

Springboard expanded to Wilmington in Summer 2018, serving 300 students in 4 school communities. We built a solid cohort of schools that each continued programming in 2019. We also introduced an affiliate program at a local community center. We are eager to follow our successful launch with continued partnerships and additional growth to meet the needs of Wilmington’s school communities.