School Murals provides visual arts programming that creates a platform for students to cultivate a shared vision and develop the life skills to bring that vision to life in collaboration with others.

School Music provides music teacher residencies that blend performance-based theory and appreciation and culminates in age-appropriate recitals showcasing student achievement.

School Media empowers students to capture and tell great stories being lived in communities and schools every day by introducing the basics of film making, social media, and photography.

School Mentors provides purposeful adults for life and vocational mentoring that cultivates character and life skills, educational options, and professional relationships and networks.

Project 25 is an annual, bicoastal student-led community service campaign. It began in San Diego in 2009 and came to NYC with SchoolPartners.NYC in 2015. Project 25 has helped fund thousands of students to creatively raise tens of thousands of dollars in service of others.

Loving schools well through service catalyzes trust and demonstrates that you’re serious about partnership. #WeServe organizes school-based service projects in three broad categories: Appreciation, Beautification, and Supplies.

Hope Week provides theme-based motivational assemblies for public middle and high school campuses year-round. Our dynamic communicators include veteran NYC youth workers and musicians who inspire student action, achievement, and sustainable change.

School Partners NYC celebrates and accelerates school partnerships that improve educational and life outcomes for students. We embrace partnerships as a vehicle for awareness, volunteerism, and wrap-around supports necessary for transformational change.

Our online platform includes a growing network of service providers committed to sharing best practices, ideas, and resources in support of New York City’s 1.1 million public school students and nearly 1,800 public schools. The SchoolPartners.NYC website offers a toolkit of resources and collaborative initiatives to start and strengthen partnerships citywide.

Thrive Collective provides regular training and coaching opportunities for community groups and practitioners looking to partner with schools. We facilitate strategic planning retreats, program design consultations, conference keynotes and seminars, and professional development workshops for educators, activists, and community leaders alike.

Our core leadership consists of practitioners, artists, and educators who, together, hold three doctorates and seven advanced degrees and have worked as adjunct and full-time professors at colleges and graduate schools in excess of thirty years combined.