Our Sponsors and Partners MCRC The Career Explorations Program is funded under a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education. The Career Explorations Program grant is being administered through MDRC. MDRC is a non-profit, non-partisan education and social policy research organization dedicated to learning what works to improve programs and policies that affect the poor. MDRC designs and studies new approaches to the problems confronting public education; low-income children, families, and communities; and low-wage workers and people with serious barriers to employment. Learn more about MDRC at www.mdrc.org Bloom Associates Bloom Associates is providing the curriculum, professional development, and on-going support to DSA. For more information about the Career Explorations Project, contact: Susan P. Bloom Bloom Associates, Inc. 42 West Chester Street Nantucket, MA 02554 508-228-0778 Cell: 914-715-8177 Fax: 815-550-2167 sbloom96(at)aol.com or 914-715-8177 The Praxis Group Founded in 1994, Praxis is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community service organization with a long track record of successful projects. The Praxis Group has been an active partner with the DSA for over a decade supporting the Academy's pioneering efforts to transform how core subjects are taught. Praxis has been pivital in designing and producing DSA's annual Digital Safari Innovation Fair. For more background information about The Praxis Group, go to www.westentech.com/praxis.