Kim Smith

NewSchools Venture Fund provides funds to other non-profit organization that improves public education. It provides education through powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs so that all children especially those in underserved communities have the opportunity to succeed. It supports education entrepreneurs, a special breed of innovators who create new nonprofit and for-profit organizations that redefine the sense of what is possible in public education. The company was founded by Brook H. Byers, Kim Smith and Louis John Doerr in and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Teach For America, Inc. provides teachers and educational services to communities. It operates as corps of recent college graduates and professionals of various academic majors and career interests. The company?s corps members commit to teach in urban and rural public schools. The firm also offers early childhood education, math and science, and teach for all initiatives to address needs in education. Teach For America was founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990 and is headquartered in New York, NY.