“Building Hope gave us critical financial support that enabled us to purchase and renovate two of our facilities. Their flexibility, expertise, and commitment to getting the job done helped expedite the complex and unusual debt financing—some thing we wouldn’t have been able to do on our own.”

Emily Lawson
Founder and Executive Director, DC Preparatory Academy

Investments: Donations & Grants

Grants may be given to conduct site test fits, to pay for professional fees associated with a project (i.e., architect, engineering), or other project-specific needs. Building Hope may also sponsor fundraising events or make a grant to a school’s academic performance. Building Hope does not accept unsolicited proposals or requests for grants. We do accept unsolicited proposals for assistance through the Credit Enhancement Program. Learn more.

List of schools receiving assistance to date:

Real Estate Technical Assistance & Direct Loans or Credit Enhancements

• Capital City Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• Center City Consortium (Washington, DC)
• Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy (Washington, DC)
• Charlotte Secondary School (Charlotte, NC)
• Community Academy (Washington, DC)
• DC Preparatory Academy (Washington, DC)
• E.L. Haynes Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• Friendship Tech Prep (Washington, DC)
• KIPP DC (Washington, DC)
• Latin American Montessori Bilingual School (LAMB) (Washington, DC)
• Lighthouse East Chicago (IN)
• Lighthouse Monument (IN)
• Lighthouse Gary (IN)
• Lotus School for Excellence (Aurora, CO)
• Multisensory Learning Academy (Fairview, OR)
• North Star Charter School (Eagle, ID)
• Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• Washington Math, Science, and Technology (Washington, DC)
• Williamsburg Charter High School (Brooklyn, NY)

Credit Enhancements

• Appletree Early Childhood Institute (Washington, DC)
• Capital City Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy (Washington, DC)
• City on a Hill Public Charter School (Boston, MA)
• DC Preparatory Academy (Washington, DC)
• Edward Brooke Charter School (Roslindale, MA)
• Four Rivers Charter School (Greenfield, MA)
• Frederick Douglass Charter School (Hyde Park, MA)
• Holyoke Community Charter School (Holyoke, MA)
• IDEA Quest Academy (McAllen, TX)
• IDEA Frontier Academy (Brownsville, TX)
• Irvington, Community Public Charter School (TX)
• Memphis Academy of Science & Engineering (Memphis, TN)
• Two Rivers Public Charter School (Washington, DC)

Real Estate Technical Assistance & Grants

• Achievement Preparatory Academy (Washington, DC)
• Appletree Early Childhood Institute (Washington, DC)
• Arts & Technology Academy (ATA) (Washington, DC)
• Bay Arts & Sciences Public Charter School (Calvert County, MD)
• Elsie Whitlow Stokes Freedom Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• e-Stem Public Charter School (Little Rock, AR)
• Maya Angelou Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• New Orleans Charter Science & Mathematics High School (New Orleans, LA)
• New Orleans College Preparatory Public Charter School (New Orleans, LA)
• Potomac Lighthouse Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• School for Arts in Learning (SAIL) (Washington, DC)
• Septima Clark Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• Two Rivers Public Charter School (Washington, DC)

Technical Consulting Services

• Academica (Miami, FL)
• Algiers Charter School Association (New Orleans, LA)
• Aspira of Illinois (Chicago, IL)
• Bridges Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• City Collegiate (Washington, DC)
• Dupont Circle Academy (Washington, DC)
• Hope Academy (Washington, DC)
• Hyde Leadership Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• Imagine Schools (Washington, DC)
• MEI Futures Academy (Washington, DC)
• Meridian Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• New Design Charter School (Los Angeles, CA)
• NOLA 180/Langston Hughes Public Charter School (New Orleans, LA)
• Options Public Charter School (Washington, DC)
• SEED Foundation (Washington, DC)
• Taos Charter School (Taos, NM)
• Tapestry Charter School (Buffalo, NY)
• Tree of Life Community School (Washington, DC)
• YouthBuild Public Charter School (Washington, DC)