Partners - CARA

CARA partners with a host of government, university, and community-based organizations to develop and implement programming.

Organizational Partnerships

CARA is housed at the CUNY Graduate Center; the Research Foundation of CUNY serves as our fiscal sponsor. In addition, we collaborate regularly with a range of partners to work in schools and colleges around New York City.

Partnerships include:

Brown University’s Careers in the Common Good

Center for Human Environments

CUNY Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP)

CUNY K-16 Initiatives

Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation

Internationals Network for Public Schools

Make the Road New York

New Settlement Apartments College Access Center

New York City Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Readiness

NYC Outward Bound Schools

The Public Science Project – CUNY Graduate Center

Urban Youth Collaborative

Advisory Board

CARA’s Advisory Board plays a critical role in CARA’s long-term planning. Our Board reflects the diversity of CARA’s work and includes school and community-based practitioners, policymakers, academics, funders, and young people impacted by CARA’s programs.

Advisory Board members include:

Oona Chatterjee: Director of Organizing & Capacity Building | Center for Popular Democracy
Vanessa Coca: Senior Research Associate | Hope Center for College, Community and Justice
Cass Conrad: Executive Director | Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation
Lisa Cowan: Vice President of Programs | Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
Greg Darnieder: Senior Advisor, Steans Family Foundation & Chair | National Postsecondary Strategy Institute
Michelle Fine: Distinguished Professor | CUNY Graduate Center
David Fonseca: College Advisor | New Mission High School, College Advising Corps-Boston University
Bennett Lieberman: Principal | Central Park East High School
Lawrence Louis: Doctoral Candidate | Michigan State University
Allison Palmer: Director of College Access Center | New Settlement Apartments
Afridah Rahman: Former Youth Leader and Intern | Student at Hunter College
Mandy Savitz-Romer: Senior Lecturer on Education | Harvard Graduate School of Education
Andrea Soonachan: University Dean, K-16 Initiatives | City University of New York
Emily Van Ingen: Director of Programs | Cypress Hills LDC

Current and Past Funders

CARA’s work is made possible by the generous funders who have recognized the value and importance of CARA’s approach to college access and persistence.

Altman Foundation

Booth Ferris Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation

Capital One Foundation

College Opportunity Fund (a Donor Advised Fund of the Brooklyn Community Foundation)

The Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Fordham Street Foundation

Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education

Gray Foundation

The Heckscher Foundation

The Helmsley Charitable Trust

Horace Mann School

Leni and Peter May

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation

The M&T Charitable Foundation

Malka Foundation

Meringoff Family Foundation

Nellie Mae Education Foundation

The New York Community Trust

The Caroll and Milton Petrie Foundation

The Pinkerton Foundation

The Solon E. Summerfield Foundation

The Robert and Jane Toll Foundation

Valentine Perry Snyder Fund

Learn more about supporting CARA's work

CARA Sponsorship Opportunities