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About the Next Generation Venture Fund
The Next Generation Venture Fund offers financial help and academic resources to qualified eighth grade students, and continues to provide such services through their remaining pre-college years.NGVF is a joint venture of:
- the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY);
- the Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP);
- the Northwestern University Center for Talent Development (CTD);
- the Center for Bright Kids (CBK);
- the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE);
with the generous support of founding corporate partner, the Goldman Sachs Foundation, and other donors. NGVF builds a pipeline for high potential students from diverse backgrounds that leads from middle school, to college, careers and key leadership roles—opportunities that might otherwise be missed.
NGVF is determined to find such promising students and set them on a course to meet their full intellectual and career potential—today and tomorrow.About The Goldman Sachs Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Foundation is a global philanthropic organization funded by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. The Foundation's mission is to promote excellence and innovation in education and to improve the academic performance and lifelong productivity of young people worldwide. It achieves this mission through a combination of strategic partnerships, grants, loans, private sector investments, and the deployment of professional talent from Goldman Sachs. Funded in 1999, the Foundation has awarded grants of $94 million since its inception, providing opportunities for young people in more than 20 countries.The Foundation supplements its financial support with social and intellectual capital from Goldman Sachs. By drawing upon the firm's leadership development expertise and commitment to education, the Foundation is able to maximize the impact of its philanthropic investments.
About The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
CTY conducts the nation's oldest and most extensive academic talent search and offers educational programming for students with exceptionally high academic ability.Since 1979, CTY has identified America’s top academic students in grades two through eight and provided challenging educational programs through their 12th grade year. Students who score at or above the 95th percentile on standardized tests normally taken in school are invited to participate in CTY’s Talent Search, during which they take an additional set of above-grade-level tests used to measure mathematical and verbal reasoning. Qualifying students may choose to enroll in CTY programs including summer residential programs, online courses, and one-day conferences. CTY also publishes Imagine, an award-winning periodical that is full of opportunities and resources for gifted students.
About The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP)
Duke TIP is a nonprofit educational organization recognized as a national leader in helping academically gifted youth achieve to their full potential. Since 1980, over 1.8 million students in grades 4 through 12 have benefited from one or more of Duke TIP’s programs.Academically eligible students are invited to participate in one of Duke TIP’s two annual Talent Searches which allow students to take above-level standardized tests to learn more about their intellectual abilities. Qualifying students may participate in Duke TIP Residential Summer Programs or e-Studies Programs which offer gifted students challenging courses suited to their advanced intellectual capacity and motivation. Duke TIP also offers Learn on your Own workbooks (grades 4-12) and CD-ROM Enrichment courses (grades 7-12) for self-paced, challenging independent study. In addition, participants receive a variety of academic resources including the Duke Gifted Letter , a newsletter for parents of the gifted, and the Educational Opportunity Guide , a directory of over 400 educational programs for gifted students.
About The Northwestern University Center for Talent Development (CTD)
Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development (CTD), a teaching and research-based organization accredited as a special function school by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, provides a variety of rigorous programs for academically talented youth in grades PreK to 12: summer residential and commuter programs, distance-learning options through Gifted LearningLinks, enrichment and credit-bearing courses at three Chicago-area sites through its Saturday Enrichment Program, and a citizenship and service-learning program, Civic Leadership Institute, located in Chicago.In a joint venture with Evanston/Skokie School District #65, CTD also operates Project EXCITE, which consists of mentoring, advanced courses, and enrichment activities designed to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in advanced and honors mathematics and science courses offered by the Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois.
Students qualify for programs and parents and educators get a more accurate understanding of students’ potential though CTD’s Midwest Academic Talent Search (MATS), an above-grade-level testing program for academically talented students. Every year nearly 31,000 students use MATS to help them understand their abilities and plan for their futures.
About The Center for Bright Kids (CBK)
The Center for Bright Kids is the Regional Talent Center for the Rocky Mountain area. This seven-state region includes Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, Montana, and Wyoming. CBK offers K-12 enrichment and acceleration programming for high interest and high ability kids. Our focus is not only on how kids think and learn, but how they discover ways to navigate the world while thinking and learning differently. CBK is focused on providing safe spaces for kids to laugh and play while being intellectually challenged with intensive academic experiences and actively engaged in meaningful, authentic learning experiences.
Return to topNetwork For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
NFTE is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, whose mission is to teach entrepreneurship to young people from low-income communities to enhance their economic productivity by improving their business, academic, and life skills. Since 1987, NFTE has reached over 140,000 youth and trained more than 3,700 Certified Entrepreneurship Teachers. Currently NFTE has active programs in 31 states and 13 countries.