AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS (LOS ANGELES)
http://www.lasbest.org/
Los Angeles' Better Educated Students for Tomorrow (LA's BEST) is a nationally acclaimed after-school program that provides academic and social enrichment activities for elementary students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Over the past five years, the Foundation has actively supported this exceptional program, making investments in the organization's expansion, operations and after-school arts programs. In June 2005, newly elected Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called on the community to further support the work of LA's BEST. The Broad Foundation answered that call by providing a multi-year, $3.6 million challenge grant to LA's BEST. These new funds, combined with public and private matching funds, will allow LA's BEST to expand to 17 new school sites.

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
http://www.educ.msu.edu/broadpartnership/
The Broad Foundation is participating in a Detroit-based scholarship program to bring highly talented graduates from Detroit Public Schools to Michigan State University's (MSU) five-year teacher preparation program. Students who accept the scholarship commit to teach in Detroit Public Schools upon completion of the program. In 2004, 13 students from 8 high schools were selected out of a total of 121 applicants. The scholarship winners had an average grade point average of 3.54 and an average ACT score of 23. In 2005, five students were selected out of 76 applicants, with an average GPA of 3.8 and average ACT score of 24. In addition, under the program, each summer, 100 high school students participate in an immersion program at MSU's College of Education, while 35 MSU juniors and seniors teach summer school in Detroit Public Schools.

TEACH FOR AMERICA
http://www.teachforamerica.org
The Broad Foundation is a major supporter of Teach For America's (TFA) efforts to broaden and deepen TFA's teaching corps and alumni program in large urban school districts across the country. Teach For America corps members teach in schools in 22 regional sites, 15 of which are in urban areas. Since 1990, nearly 14,000 corps members have committed to teach two years in low-income rural and urban communities. This year, 1,750 corps members were selected from more than 13,500 applicants to the program. The Broad Foundation recently renewed its commitment to TFA by making a four-year, $5 million grant to support TFA's 2006-2010 national growth plan.