The Bonner Foundation has mutually beneficial partnerships with over 50 national organizations. The growing consortium of partnerships span a diverse array of issue areas such as anti-hunger and poverty, public health, education, environment, public policy, and more. These partnerships provide opportunities such as internships, direct service, international experiences, summer placements, post-graduate fellowships, employment, and more to Bonner students, staff, and alumni in the Bonner Network. In return, these organizations gain access to a talented pool of predominantly low-income, first-generation students who are civically-minded, high-achieving and contribute significantly to their campuses' and communities' culture of service and higher learning.
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Black in Appalachia: Research, Education & Support is a non-profit that works in collaboration with public media, residents, university departments, libraries, archives and community organizations to highlight the history and contributions of African-Americans in the development of the Mountain South and its culture.. Black in Appalachia is a community service for Appalachian residents and families with roots in the region. Black in Appalachia works with the communities at various levels, based on the articulated needs. Opportunities for Bonner engagement include: Oral History recording and transcription, Materials scanning and cataloguing, Repository Research, GIS Mapping, Multi-media production (Audio and Visual), Graphic Design, Web Design, Narrative Writing as well as opportunities to work in support of Black stories your home community, if your home is in the Appalachian region.
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston (IM) brings people of diverse faith traditions together for dialogue, collaboration, and service, as a demonstration of our shared beliefs. IM manifests the strength of shared beliefs through three areas of service to the greater Houston community: Meals on Wheels, Refugee Services, and Interfaith Relations. Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston (IM) welcomes individuals as well as corporate, school, faith-based or other volunteer groups to help fulfill our mission.
Breakthrough Greater Boston
Our mission at Breakthrough Greater Boston is to inspire excitement for learning, create paths to college and promote careers in education. Breakthrough Greater Boston prepares low-income students for success in college and trains the next generation of urban teachers using a unique Students Teaching Students model. Through our six-year program, students gain a passion for learning and the perseverance and tools to succeed in college and beyond. Breakthrough Greater Boston offers volunteer opportunities in academic support, college preparation, career exploration, teacher support, projects and administration, events, drives, and special skills, and offers internships and AmeriCorps positions.
City Year was founded in 1988 on the belief that young people can change the world. City Year is an education-focused, nonprofit organization that unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service aimed at keeping students in school and on track to graduation. At City Year’s 28 urban locations across the U.S. and two international affiliates, teams of trained young people called AmeriCorps members serve full-time in schools during the academic year as tutors, mentors and role models. By focusing on attendance, behavior and course performance, which identify students who are at risk of not graduating on time, AmeriCorps members are positioned to help students and schools succeed.
Memphis Teacher Residency (MTR)
Memphis Teacher Residency (MTR) is an urban teacher training program that includes a Masters in Urban Education and a full-year internship in an urban school paired with a highly effective mentor. As a response to the gospel mandate to love our neighbors as ourselves, MTR will provide students in our partner neighborhoods with the same, or better, quality of education as any child in Memphis receives by recruiting, training and supporting effective teachers within a Christian context. The MTR residency is open to all majors. During the residency year, MTR provides a stipend, housing and full tuition for the master's degree. Following the residency year, MTR graduates commit to teaching for three consecutive years in a Memphis high need school.
Partners for Education at Berea College
The mission of Partners for Education at Berea College is to increase educational outcomes in the children we serve and in rural Appalachian Kentucky. We partner with schools, community organizations and parents to increase proficiency in Math and Reading and to increase high school graduation, college going and college success rates.
The GO Project’s vision is to ensure that all under-resourced families with children who are significantly struggling in New York City public schools have access to coordinated, comprehensive, and effective supplemental resources to ensure their child thrives in school and in life. We achieve our vision through our approach and unique partnership model, which utilize the resources of the community--skilled volunteers, partnerships with independent schools, and engagement of our families--to deliver a highly successful program.
The Philadelphia Center (TPC)
The Philadelphia Center (TPC) is Albion’s Philadelphia-based satellite campus and community innovation test site that welcomes the full spectrum of learners into the liberal arts, while moving experiential pedagogies from best practice to common practice; and activating our students in purposeful citizenship and careers. TPC is Albion College's experimental urban innovation hub. TPC programs and initiatives engage students and community partners in community-based, purpose driven, work experiences (internships, practica, community organizing projects, and other forms of work integrated learning) and innovative experiential pedagogies that demonstrate the relevance and significance of the liberal arts to the challenges of today and tomorrow. All TPC students explore issues of race, equity and inclusion; and simulate purpose driven social change projects as actively engaged citizens, while forging purposeful careers. The Philadelphia Center offers two 16-week Fall/Spring semester terms and a 10-week Summer program, including newly initiated Post-Baccalaureate and Virtual Distance programs. All offerings combine multidisciplinary seminars, a full-time internship experience, city living, and comprehensive advising. We welcome all students from all majors, keeping with our commitment to serving the full-spectrum of learners.
Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit network of high-performing, public charter schools providing an outstanding K-12 education in historically under-resourced communities. We have proudly built schools that reflect our student population, with more than 60% of our teachers and staff across our network identifying as a person of color. Uncommon currently manages 53 schools serving more than 20,000 students in five cities: Boston, Camden, New York City, Newark and Rochester. We are proud that Uncommon graduates persist in and graduate from college at five times the rate of their peers nationally. We achieve this by offering strong academic, co-curricular, and social-emotional learning that prepares students for success in college and beyond.
