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Honors & Awards

Yield Giving Open Call $2 Million Grant Award—2024

National Summer Learning Association New York Life Excellence in Summer Learning Award—2014

American Bar Association Alexander Award for Innovation—2014

2021

nj.com Newark high school student accepted to 7 ivy league colleges.

2020

nj.com: Coronavirus crippled N.J. teen’s chance to succeed in school. But strangers came to her rescue.

nj.com: As schools in N.J. go virtual, these kids are getting left behind

2019

ROI-NJ: Growing by LEEPs and bounds: Law, education nonprofit helping underserved students — with help from Newark business giants

2016

U.S. Department of Education: Education Department Celebrates Summer Learning Day with Visits to Ten Summer Sites

Star Ledger: Against the odds: 100% of kids in this Newark program got into college

ABC Eyewitness News ran a segment in April 2016 featuring our students and their successful college applications  

NJTV ran a segment in May 2016 featuring our seniors

2014

Seton Hall Law School: High School Students and the 6th Amendment

National Summer Learning Association : 2014 Excellence in Summer Learning Awards Bulletin

BusinessWire: NJ LEEP, A Newark-based College Access Program, Wins National Award for Excellence In Summer Learning

MarketWatch (The Wall Street Journal): NJ LEEP Raises Over $1 Million at Event Honoring Goldman Sachs and Prudential Financial

Huffington Post: Making The “LEEP” To College, Together

2013

American Bar Assoc. News: NJ LEEP To Receive ABA Alexander Award For Efforts To Increase Diversity In The Legal Profession

Star Ledger: McCarter & English Host Fifth Consecutive Internship Program with NJ LEEP Students

2012

NorthJersey.com: NJ LEEP Mentors Minority Youth

Star Ledger: N.J. After-School Program Sets Students On The Right Course