About Us
The Success for All Foundation (SFAF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development, evaluation, and dissemination of research-proven reform models for preschool, elementary, and middle schools, especially those serving many children considered at risk.
SFAF has continued work begun in 1987 at Johns Hopkins University and still retains strong links to the School of Education. As of 2009, SFAF was serving about 1,500 schools in forty-six states and assisting with related projects in five other countries. SFAF offers preschool, elementary, middle school, and high school programs to help students achieve grade-level performance across the curriculum and reach their full potential. Our flagship model is Success for All for elementary schools, which was recently awarded a federal grant to scale up to 1,100 more schools. In addition, SFAF Turnaround and Transformational programs are available.
The Success for All Foundation is located in Baltimore, Maryland. It has an annual budget of about $50 million, most of which is derived from fees from schools for training and materials, supplemented by grants and loans from charitable foundations and government agencies. In 2010, SFAF was awarded a $50 million Investing in Innovation (i3) grant by the U.S. Department of Education to help scale up its operations. The foundation received the highest ratings of all proposals submitted based on its evidence of effectiveness.
The goal of the Success for All Foundation is to transform schools by creating and disseminating programs that are both based on research and have been rigorously evaluated. In addition to its direct services to schools, SFAF promotes broader policies favoring school reform through adoption and effective implementation of proven programs.