OUR GRANTEES

The Catholic Academy of Bridgeport is one school with four campuses in the inner city of Bridgeport, CT. Serving 800 children from diverse backgrounds, the CAB provides a Christ-centered academic learning environment for students in grades preK-8th. On each campus you’ll find high academic standards, small class sizes, devoted faculty, a safe learning environment and a culture of mutual respect and kindness. Students graduate with confidence and the ability to succeed in life.
To learn more about the Catholic Academy of Bridgeport, visit https://www.catholicacademybridgeport.org/

Rising Stars Youth Foundation
Rising Stars Youth Foundation offers scholarships which provide our kids with access to superior private high schools offering life-changing opportunities. This unique scholarship program not only provides tuition assistance but also goes the extra mile to ensure the academic accomplishment and personal growth of each one of our scholars with a high-touch support system that acts as a “second family”. For over 20 years, the Rising Stars Youth Foundation has utilized the power of team sports to build character, promote education, and reinforce important values children need to make correct decisions in life. Rising Stars is a 24/7-365 days a year support system. Rising Stars becomes a bridge between family, school and community for these children with the goal to graduate every participant in the programs, issue free, college ready, and prepared to succeed in life.
To learn more about the Rising Stars Youth Foundation, visit www.risingstarsyouthfoundation.com.

School in The Square (S2) – Summer Camp
School in the Square (S2) is a charter K-8 elementary and middle school in Washington Heights and Inwood communities that engages, educates, and empowers its students to respond mindfully and creatively to life’s opportunities and challenges. In line with their commitment to equity and diversity, S2 is dedicated to serving all students by providing a differentiated and inclusive learning environment.
In the summer, S2 offers a 3-week innovative STEM and literacy program for its students, and this year included their incoming 6th grade cohort. The Summer in the Square Program is thoughtfully designed to combat summer learning loss or the “summer slide” (click here for more info) by combining targeted academic instruction with fun and engaging projects.
S2 partners with Camp Invention to engage students in projects that build essential 21st century skills, such as communication, collaboration and design. Students get to utilize their creativity and critical thinking skills to solve a variety of challenges through technology, such as: designing a video game that incorporates wellness, ideating what the phones of the future will look like and do for us, or building their own Rube Goldberg machines. Not only does Summer in the Square engage students in a way that makes learning and inventing fun, it also helps prepare our students to start strong every Fall.

Year Up
Year Up is a national 501(c) 3 workforce development organization committed to ensuring equitable access to economic opportunity, education, and justice for all young adults—no matter their background, income, or zip code. Employers face a growing need for talent, yet there are millions of talented young adults being overlooked, and these inequities only further perpetuate the opportunity gap that exists in our country—a gap that Year Up is determined and positioned to close. Year Up achieves its mission through three interconnected strategies: direct service for students and alumni, empowering others to serve and support young adults, and changing systems that perpetuate the Opportunity Divide. Year Up’s intensive training program utilizes a high expectations, high support model where students learn in-demand technical and professional skills and apply them during a corporate internship. Year Up has served more than 30,000 young adults across 25 cities since its founding in 2000 and has been voted one of the “Best Non-Profits to Work For” by TheNonProfitTimes.
To learn more, visit www.yearup.org

King School
King School is a private school located in Stamford, CT providing preschool, elementary, middle and high school education to over 37 neighboring communities including New Canaan, Greenwich, Rowayton, Darien and Bedford.
King is dedicated to preparing its students to thrive in a rapidly changing world. We provide an excellent, progressive education, grounded in the traditional disciplines of the arts and sciences, committed to the nurturing of individual potential, and designed to promote critical thinking and reasoned reflection. Using rich and innovative methods, our teachers facilitate each student’s fullest academic and personal achievement. We champion the development of character, self-confidence, and talent through challenging intellectual, creative, athletic, leadership, and service opportunities.
King believes that individual accomplishment must go hand in hand with respect for others. Our culture of respect fosters collaboration as well as independence. We embrace human and cultural diversity. We value responsible citizenship. King graduates are well equipped to succeed in college and to pursue lives of ongoing inquiry, learning, accomplishment, personal fulfillment, and social responsibility.

Columbia Business School
Columbia Business School is grateful to the Queally Foundation for its support of the School’s new home on the University’s Manhattanville Campus. With light-filled spaces and double the School’s current square footage, these new facilities will transform the School’s potential to address today’s big questions, educate future business leaders, and continue to build an engaged community. Many thanks to the Foundation for its important role making this vision a reality.

University of Richmond / Q-Camp
Employers are looking to hire college students who are career ready – they want students to not only perform well academically, but professionally as well.
Q-camp, named for Paul and Anne-Marie Queally, ’86, is designed to introduce University of Richmond business students to practical, real-world exercises in professional and career skills. The off campus two-day conference, initially piloted in 2008, is optional for sophomore business students; however, student demand in recent years continues to grow, with an average attendance of 150 students and a waitlist.
Employers want earlier access to students and students value the opportunity to practice professional skills, such as business meal etiquette and interviewing, with both corporate partners and alumni.
Q-camp Learning Outcomes:
• Identify strategies to refine career interests and goals
• Recognize top employer desired competencies for career readiness
• Recall three key ways to interview effectively
• Define networking and demonstrate skills to effectively build relationships
As a result of attending Q-camp in 2019:
· 100% of the respondents (56% response rate) indicated an increased confidence in their ability to network
· 98% of the respondents found the one-on-one coaching session beneficial
Nationally recognized for its success in preparing students to network and successfully transition into the 21st century workforce, Q-camp has been noted in Money Magazine, Business Week, and USA Today, among other publications.
Funding for Q-camp, which includes all student registration and conference fees, is made possible through the generosity from the “Queally Family Foundation”…