Rewarding sustainable, transformational, outstanding and permissionless education.  

What makes the Yass Prize different is that we don’t recognize schools and traditional learning institutions. We recognize education in a variety of incarnations. The theme of this year’s winners will be proving that learning is and does happen outside of the 19th century classroom and no one institution can provide everything a child needs.  As a result of these novel and innovative approaches to learning there is no one metric or measurement that you can use to compare their success.  

Outstanding education providers demonstrate their success first and foremost through the demand of the user, i.e. the students or families, the day to day outcomes shown through retention, test scores, activities and awards and the ultimate measure of success which is whether students are persistent, move on to the next grade or school and enter productive careers or higher education pathways. Each of our winners this year is demonstrating those successes not only with their programs but with their target audience; namely students who have been failed by the traditional system, and have special needs, motivations, interests and circumstances. That’s what makes the Yass Prize so different, so unique and so impactful.

Organizations like these, with a boost, can become fully Sustainable and Transformational. They are already Outstanding and Permissionless.