Each day we see the realities of educational inequity juxtaposed against the concrete evidencethat when students in low-income communitiesare given opportunities they deserve, they excel.

Awards and recognition

Teach For America is recognized as one of America's top nonprofits, implementing continuous improvement throughout our organization in the pursuit of educational equity for all children.

Recent honors

      

50 Best Places

Teach For America Named One of BusinessWeek's "Best Places to Launch a Career"
In BusinessWeek's third annual ranking of the top U.S. employers for young professionals entering the workforce, Teach For America holds the No. 11 spot and is the highest-ranked nonprofit on the list. Read more about Teach For America's rankingicon

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Teach For America Named One of the Top 10 Employers of Recent College Grads
In a job market that has seen an increase in entry level hiring this year, Teach For America moved up from #11 to #6 on CollegeGrad.com's annual survey of the top 500 employers of college graduates. Read more about CollegeGrad.com's rankingsicon

Teach For America Wins Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Award
Teach For America is one of 43 winners of the 2007 Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards. The award honors U.S. nonprofits, or "social entrepreneurs," who combine creativity and ingenuity with business solutions to address today's most challenging social problems. This is the second year in a row that Teach For America received this honor, earning an overall grade of A+. Learn more about the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards

Best Entry-Level Jobs

The Princeton Review Recommends Teach For America To Graduates Seeking the Best Entry-Level Jobs
Teach For America offers college graduates one of the best career launching pads in the nation, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features Teach For America in the 2008 edition of its annual guide Best Entry-Level Jobs. The guidebook profiles 114 companies and organizations that The Princeton Review recommends as the best places for new grads to work. Read more in the Teach For America profile

ForcesForGood

Teach For America Featured in Book on High-Impact Nonprofits
Teach For America is one of 12 organizations profiled in the book Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits (Jossey-Bass), which shares lessons for those interested in creating significant social change. Authors Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant employed a research methodology derived from the for-profit sector to study nonprofits that have achieved extraordinary levels of impact, and then distilled their findings into six counterintuitive practices that these organizations use to change the world. For more information about Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits, visit Amazon.comLink Arrow

Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award

Teach For America Named One of America's Most Innovative Nonprofits
The Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award, created in partnership with the Stanford Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation, recognizes and rewards nonprofits whose innovative approaches and breakthrough solutions most effectively improve their communities or the world at large. Each year, Amazon names 10 award finalists, and these organizations participate in an online fundraising effort to determine the winner. As a 2005 finalist, Teach For America raised more than $600,000 through the generous support of individuals and organizations nationwide. Learn more about the Amazon.com Nonprofit Innovation Award

Best-Selling Business Writer Jim Collins Recognizes Teach For America As a Model of Nonprofit Leadership
Jim Collins' book Good to Great, which has sold more than 2.5 million copies in North America, examines the characteristics that differentiate the most successful corporations in America. Collins recently published a monograph that explores what happens when the Good to Great framework intersects with the realities of non-business organizations. Collins cites Teach For America as a model for its innovative approach to attracting great people to the nonprofit sector. For more information on Good to Great and the Social Sectors, visit Amazon.com

Charity Navigator - Four Star Charity

Charity Navigator Gives Teach For America Its Highest Rating for Sound Fiscal Management
For the sixth year in a row, Teach For America has earned Charity Navigator's four-star rating for its fiscal management, based on short-term spending practices and long-term sustainability. For more information about Teach For America's rating, visit the Charity Navigator website