ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
www.laalliance.org
The Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization operating 10 public charter schools in the Los Angeles area. The Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools plans to build 20 high-performance small high schools serving more than 8,000 students in Los Angeles over the next five years.

ASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
www.aspirepublicschools.org
Aspire Public Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization currently operating 21 successful public charter schools, serving over 5,000 students in cities across California. Aspire Public Schools outperform comparable schools on California statewide achievement tests. Aspire plans to expand to 50 schools clustered in urban areas throughout California, and The Broad Foundation supports Aspire's expansion to 16 schools in the Los Angeles area.

CALIFORNIA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION
www.charterassociation.org
The Broad Foundation invests in the California Charter Schools (CCSA) Association's efforts to serve public charter schools and their students in California. CCSA's vision is that 10 percent of the student population in California will attend a high-quality charter school by 2014. The foundation supports CCSA to: (1) provide training and mentoring for leaders operating new charter schools; (2) help ensure that California's largest districts comply with providing Proposition 39 quality facilities to charter schools; and (3) enable CCSA's work to raise the quality of California's charter schools.

CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM
www.edreform.com
The Broad Foundation supports the Center for Education Reform, an education policy organization that advocates reforms that produce high standards, accountability and freedom, including strong charter school laws and school choice programs for children most in need.

CIVIC BUILDERS
www.civicbuilders.org
Civic Builders is a nonprofit charter facility developer in New York City that provides affordable facilities for high-quality charter schools. By assuming responsibility for building acquisition, design and construction activities, Civic Builders relieves charter schools of the burden of navigating the complex and competitive New York real estate marketplace, enabling school administrators to focus on operating schools. The Broad Foundation funding provides Civic Builders with necessary equity to purchase buildings that are, in turn, provided to charter schools under favorable financial conditions.

EXCELLENT EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
www.exed.net
Excellent Education Development (ExED) was awarded New Market Tax Credits from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to be used for the development of public charter school facilities in Los Angeles County. These tax credits, coupled with grant funds, allow ExED to provide below market-rate loans for charter school operators. With The Broad Foundation's support, five charter schools will receive facility support.

GREEN DOT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
www.greendotpublicschools.org
Green Dot Public Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization currently operating 12 public charter high schools serving more than 4,000 students in the Los Angeles area. Green Dot's public charter schools consistently outperform comparable schools on California statewide achievement tests and have significantly higher graduation and college-going rates. Green Dot plans to expand to 31 schools serving more than 16,000 students by 2012.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER PROGRAM (KIPP)
www.kipp.org
The Broad Foundation is a major supporter of KIPP public charter schools, universally recognized for their high-quality, rigorous curriculum and for providing an excellent education to underserved students. The Broad Foundation supports KIPP's expansion from two to six Los Angeles schools and currently supports five new KIPP schools in New Orleans. In addition, The Broad Foundation supports the KIPP Fisher Fellows program, one of the most highly competitive charter leadership programs in the country, which trains future leaders to open schools in large urban districts across the country.

NEW ORLEANS: BUILDLING QUALITY CHOICES FOR PARENTS
www.newschoolsforneworleans.org
The Broad Foundation supports efforts by an array of leading education organizations - New Schools for New Orleans, Teach For America, New Leaders for New Schools, and KIPP - to reverse the poor test scores and high dropout rates that have long plagued New Orleans. These organizations are working in partnership with the Recovery School District of New Orleans to recruit and train more highly qualified teachers and school leaders and to create new, innovative, high-quality public charter schools.

NEW SCHOOLS VENTURE FUND
www.newschools.org
The New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF) receives support from The Broad Foundation to invest in the incubation and development of high-quality nonprofit public charter school management organizations across the country. NSVF seeks to accelerate the pace and quality of public charter school growth by supporting the building of accountable, sustainable schools that provide quality public education opportunities for children, families and entrepreneurial educators. By 2015, NSVF expects these newly established charter school management organizations to create over 450 schools serving more than 212,000 students.

PACIFIC CHARTER SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT
www.pacificcharter.org/team/
Pacific Charter School Development (PSCD) identifies, acquires and develops public charter school facilities that will, in turn, be leased back to academically successful charter school organizations. PCSD provides public charter schools with high-quality, low-cost facility options and gives lenders a less risky alternative to individual school financing. Over the past three years, PCSD has helped develop 5,000 new seats for the highest performing charter schools serving low income students in Los Angeles.

UNCOMMON SCHOOLS
www.uncommonschools.org
Uncommon Schools, Inc (USI) is a high-performing charter management organization made up of a five philosophically aligned charter networks that provide top-quality urban college preparatory schools in New York City, upstate New York and Newark, New Jersey. USI has achieved outstanding academic results predicated on their commitment to high standards for academics and character, data-driven decision making, a structured learning environment, and a longer school day and year. The Broad Foundation provides funding for the start up and scale of six new USI schools in New York City.