All Stars Project, Inc.

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, USA
Website: 
allstars.org
Size: 
51-200 employees
Founded: 
1981
Annual Budget : 
$5-10M
Areas of Focus: 
Education
Youth / Children
Arts / Culture / Humanities
Populations Served: 
Children and Youth
Low Income
About Us
Mission: 

The All Stars Project (ASP) is a growing national nonprofit organization whose mission is to transform the lives of youth and poor communities using the developmental power of performance, in partnership with caring adults. While the ASP’s afterschool programs include hip-hop talent shows, training in theatre and the arts and programs where we partner with the business community to help young people create a professional performance, we are doing so much more – we are building a community and imagining possibility.

Programs: 

Founded in 1981, the ASP is headquartered in New York City, currently operates in five locations across the United States (New York, New Jersey, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago and Dallas), and reaches more than 10,000 young people from poor communities each year.  The ASP is 100% privately funded, mostly through individual contributions.

Each year, All Stars afterschool development programs involve tens of thousands of inner-city young people and adults from all walks of life in transforming their lives and communities.  The ASP believes afterschool is the best way to bring young people growing up in poor communities into the mainstream. They start to connect to opportunities, to the world of success, to the business community and all sorts of things that are very far from where they come from, sparking their desire to learn and grow.

Awards & Accolades: 
In 2018, Dr. Lenora Fulani, Co-Founder, All Stars Project, was honored with a Protecting New York award for Operation Conversation: Cops and Kids at City and State’s Protecting New York Summit.
In 2016, All Stars Project was honored with the 2016 Simmons Luminary Award from the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at Southern Methodist University.
In 2015, All Stars Project was awarded the 2015 IACP and Cisco Community Policing Award from The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for Operation Conversation: Cops & Kids.
In September 2014, Gabrielle Kurlander, President and CEO, All Stars Project, was honored with the Leader in Non-Profit Volunteering award at the Volunteer Referral Center’s annual gala benefit.
In December 2013, Dr. Elouise Joseph, City Leader, All Stars Project of the San Francisco Bay Area received the Jefferson Award for Public Service for her work with poor youth.
In May 2012, Gloria Strickland was presented with a Distinguished Leader Award in Service at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Education Convocation.
In July 2009, ASP’s Development School for Youth (DSY), was one of seven programs across the country selected this year as a “Promising Practice in Afterschool” by the Academy for Educational Development’s Center for Youth Development.
Why Work For Us?: 

Becoming the leader in Afterschool Development is a big task and we need the most ambitious and skilled leaders to join us!  A career at the All Stars provides the opportunity to bring a successful and innovative approach to fighting poverty to over 20,000 inner-city young people and adults every year.  If you’re looking for a chance to lend your talents to creating new opportunities for inner-city communities, you’ve found the right place!

The All Stars Project employs 75 full and part-time staff members in six locations across the country including New York City, Newark, Jersey City Chicago, San Francisco and Dallas.

industry: 
Nonprofit