Awards

Higher Achievement has been honored with numerous national awards, including:

Catalogue for Philanthropy: 2011-12

 

  • 2011 Featured Charity in the Catalogue for Philanthropy


  • 2011 Metlife Afterschool Innovator Award


  • 2009 Coming Up Taller Award presented by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities


  • 2008 Enterprise Winner for the Catalogue of Philanthropy


  • 2008 feature in the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region’s annual report


  • December 2008 listing in Washingtonian’s top local charities to support


  • 2006 national winner of the Excellence in Summer Learning Award, given by Johns Hopkins University


  • 2006 Bank of America’s Neighborhood Builders Award


  • 2005 winner of the Washington Post Excellence in Nonprofit Management Award


  • 2005 NPower/Accenture Award for Nonprofit Innovation in Technology

 
 




"I used to talk in a little voice and stutter in front of people, and now I don’t do that. I learn new things that I can bring into school and say, ‘Oh I learned that at Higher Achievement!’"

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