Chapters

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  • Cambridge

    In June 1991, the third chapter of Say Yes to Education was established in Cambridge, MA when Lesley University entered into a partnership with the Say Yes to Education Foundation and the Cambridge public school district.

    69 students entering third grade at the Harrington Elementary School comprised the new Say Yes group.

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  • Hartford

    The Hartford Chapter of Say Yes to Education began in October 1990, when 76 fifth grade students from the Annie Fisher Elementary School visited the University of Hartford and received the same promise of assistance that George Weiss had made to the Belmont students three years earlier in Philadelphia. George Weiss, along with local sponsors Mort and Irma Handel, and John Berman and his late wife Beverly, pledged to pay post-secondary school tuition for every student in the class.

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  • NYC Harlem

    The New York City Harlem Chapter of Say Yes, founded in 2004, launched with 384 students at five elementary schools in Harlem.  Currently, the majority of our students are rising seventh graders and attend over 20 different middle schools in the city.

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  • Philadelphia

    The Bryant Program of the Philadelphia Chapter is another beneficiary of Say Yes research indicating the importance of introducing educationally disadvantaged students into the Say Yes community as early as possible in their school careers.

    Launched in July 2000 at the William C. Bryant Elementary School in West Philadelphia, the Bryant Chapter was initially comprised of 50 children slated to enter kindergarten the following year. This group was the youngest cohort at the time to be included in a Say Yes program.

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  • Syracuse

    In 2007, a coalition of partners catalyzed by the Say Yes to Education Foundation and Syracuse University decided to create a demonstration program that would radically alter the life course of students in an entire urban school district by dramatically increasing the rate at which they go to college.

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