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Case Study: The Urban Assembly
The Urban Assembly is a non-profit organization that creates and manages a community of New York City Public Schools dedicated to preparing students from under-resourced neighborhoods for success in four-year colleges. UA provides a rigorous academic education, personal attention, and close relationships with teachers, partnering organizations, and individual mentors that connect the classroom to college and the working world.
UA manages nineteen schools, educating students from some of the lowest income neighborhoods of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. While the majority of students who enter UA schools have inadequate academic preparation to secure a high school diploma, UA’s mentoring and partnership programs have helped to achieve a graduation rate over 20% higher than other large, public New York City schools with similar demographics.
Beckelman+Capalino has been engaged by UA to assist the organization with fundraising within the public, private, and government sources.
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