The Goldman Sachs Foundation

Goldman Sachs has a longstanding commitment to academic excellence and leadership development, and we believe the world’s challenges require nothing less than the fullest contribution of talent and insight from across all segments of society. Our Developing High Potential Youth program – our Signature Initiative – reflects those values by working to find and nurture bright young people in harder-to-reach communities, providing them with the resources they need to stay on the path to high achievement and future leadership.

Grant Highlight - The Next Generation Venture Fund

The Next Generation Venture Fund (NGVF) works with university-based talent searches at Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern University, and the University of Denver to identify highly gifted 8th graders from under-represented groups and nurture them over the course of the next five years in order to prepare them for admission and success at top colleges and universities. Please view the video.

Grant Highlight - University Access Program

Through a collaboration with 14 leading colleges and universities in the US, Ireland, South Africa and the UK, this program is designed to strengthen the emerging yet vital role the most selective colleges and universities can play in cultivating high potential young people. The program targets talented students who often live in the shadows of elite institutions of higher learning but who otherwise may not have access to the high quality education these schools can provide.

Current Grantees Include:

• Asian University for Women Support Foundation
• Association Promotion des Talents
• Bank Street College of Education
• Cambridge in America
• Citizen Schools, Inc.
• Columbia University
• Computers for Youth
• Duke University
• Educational Testing Service
• Friends of the University of Nottingham America, Inc.
• Georgetown University
• Harvard College Association for US-China Relations Corporation
• Harvard University
• Hertie Foundation
• Hispanic Scholarship Fund
• Johns Hopkins University
• Let's Get Ready, Inc.
• London School of Economics and Political Science
• Management Leadership for Tomorrow
• Manhattanville College
• National Urban League
• North American Foundation for the University of Manchester, Inc.
• Prep for Prep
• Princeton University
• Rainier Scholars
• Regis High School
• Sponsors for Educational Opportunity
• The Steppingstone Foundation, Inc.
• The University of Warwick
• University of Birmingham Foundation
• University of Chicago
• University of Dublin, Trinity College
• University of Southern California
• University of the Witwatersrand
• Washington Metropolitan Scholars