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A Child With A Dream Is A Child With A FutureTM

The U.S. Dream Academy is helping our nation's children reach for their dreams.


Our vision is to lead the next generation of global-minded, character driven youth toward actualizing their full potential.

Dream Cities


Dream Cities

The U.S. Dream Academy currently operates in communities nationwide. Learn about our Dream Cities and how you can get involved.

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Our Programs


The U.S. Dream Academy's excellence is built on three thematic pillars: Skill-building, Character-building, and Dream-building.

The Pillars of the Dream Academy Program

Skill Building

95% of DreamKids live in under-invested communities and attend an underperforming or “failing” public school (as measured by state benchmarks). That’s why the skill-building pillar of the U.S. Dream Academy program focuses on strengthening positive in-school behavior and educational fundamentals.

The Pillars of the Dream Academy Program

Character Building

Children with an incarcerated parent are two and a half times more likely to experience mental health and behavioral issues in school, which are strongly linked to difficulty in school, trouble finding work, and in some cases involvement in crime later in life.

The Pillars of the Dream Academy Program

Dream Building

The aspirations of DreamKids have been positively correlated with the number of days they attend the U.S. Dream Academy, and those who attended more frequently reported more hope for their future. We  help DreamKids find their spark and expose them to many new opportunities and career options to build dreams for their future.

Since 1998, the program has served over 11,000 DreamKids across ten cities nationwide.
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Our Story



The power of gospel music and his gifted voice has taken the U.S. Dream Academy's founder and CEO, Wintley Phipps, around the world and placed him before audiences that have included the last five Presidents of the United States.


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Who We Help


Learn more about the kids and the communities we serve.

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Our Vision - Where We Are Going

Lead the next generation of  character-driven, global minded youth  toward actualizing their full potential. 

Numbers To Know


25

Years Of Impact

11k+

Youth Supported

7

Dream Cities

$101m+

Raised

Dream Cities - The Communities We Impact


See where we operate and how we help kids in different communities.

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Thank You To Our Corporate Partners

Our Impact


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Dream Blog

By Kaayla Butler 26 Feb, 2024
In 2023, we are proud to have our long-time corporate partner QTS as the sponsor for this prestigious award, The Mentor of the Year Award Sponsored by QTS. After a round of nominations from each of our Learning Centers, a rigorous review by a specially selected group of QTS employees, we are thrilled to announce our mentor of the year from Salt Lake City: Daniel Guerrero.
CELEBRATING FREEDOM
16 Jun, 2023
My great great grandmother, Maria Simms Wallace, born enslaved would have been around 20 years old on June 19, 1865 when General Granger and Union Troops rode into Galveston, Texas to officially declare the state of Texas under Union rule and consequently all enslaved Black people would be immediately free.
Flower growing among rocks proof of resilience
By C. Diane Wallace Booker, Esq., Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President 23 May, 2023
Over the course of about eight months during the pandemic, we worked together to co-design a narrative shifting visual podcast to reach other young people facing the hard stuff in life. Our initial big goal of the podcast was to de-stigmatize the experience of having a parent incarcerated so that young people will seek help and understand they are not alone.
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If Only You Knew

The Podcast


In this podcast designed for young people by young people, we strive to deepen the understanding of parental incarceration and poverty in the lives of young people and promote healing.

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