Causes: Children & Youth, Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy, Student Services, Youth Development Programs

Mission: The horizons national student enrichment program, inc. (hn) mission involves changing the life trajectory of low-income students by instilling in them the joy of learning, the skills for success, and the inspiration to realize their dreams. The vision of horizons national student enrichment program is "all children have the opportunity to realize their potential". Horizons national student enrichment program, inc (hn) is the central organization for an award winning network of academic enrichment programs. Since 1964, hn has served low-income, public school, k-12 students, in summer learning programs supported by school-year components. Hn provides affilitiates centralized support services such as evaluation, communication, marketing, pr, and consulting services; planning and funding for affiliate program initiatives; other discretionary grants and expansion.

Programs: The leveraged learning initiative provides an academic framework for all horizons programs, funding reading specialists, student assessment software and training, a comprehensive data base and data analysis, as well as support for curriculum development and stem programming. This initiative has been critical to consistent program quality and model fidelity across affiliates, and to consistent academic gains of 2-3 months improvement each year in reading and math skills for horizons students over the last ten years.

hn identifies and develops new sites, and provides seed funding which serves as the funding bridge while the new affiliate's board establishes itself in its community. Affiliates quickly achieve financial self-sufficiency.