6-586: Young Eisner Scholars (YES) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying underserved students and providing them with resources and support to facilitate their success in high school, college, and beyond. Eric Eisner started identifying students from the Lennox School District in Los Angeles in 1998. The organization became established as a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in 2010. Services expanded to New York City in 2012, Chicago in 2014, and
12-625: A Democratic Society and took part in the Columbia University protests of 1968 . After law school, Eisner accepted an offer at the law firm Kaplan Livingston Goodwin Berkowitz & Selvin in Los Angeles , then the largest entertainment law firm in the world. In 1980, he was recruited by David Geffen to be head of his production company and oversaw the production of films such as Risky Business and Beetlejuice , as well as Broadway plays M. Butterfly and Cats . After retiring from
18-461: The Appalachian region in 2015. YES takes on about 60 new students each year and currently serves over 500 students. YES has disbursed over $ 75 million in scholarships and financial aid as of June 2017. Eric Eisner (lawyer) Eric Eisner is an American entertainment industry lawyer and executive who served as president of The Geffen Film Company and Island World Inc . He also founded
24-765: The Young Eisner Scholars (YES) program. Eisner grew up in Greenwich Village and attended Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School . worked as a songwriter and played drums for The Strangers, a New York rock band. He wrote a number of songs that were recorded by various artists in the 1960s, including "No Sun Today" ( Buffalo Springfield ), "Emily's Illness" ( Nora Guthrie ), and "Too Young to Be One" ( The Turtles ). He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1970 and J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1973. In college, he joined Students for
30-577: The country. Because of his activism in improving public school education, Malcolm Gladwell described Eisner as the " DuBois of the barrio" and "the L.A. school system’s Lone Ranger." Eisner was also featured in Gladwell's podcast, Revisionist History . He was named "Innovator of the Year" in education by The Wall Street Journal in 2012, and one of the "Biggest Philanthropists of 2018" by Town & Country . His wife, Lisa (née Norris) Eisner, worked as
36-414: The entertainment industry, Eisner founded the Young Eisner Scholars program in 1998. The program identifies gifted students from disadvantaged schools in Los Angeles and places them in the city's best prep and magnet schools . The program has also mobilized $ 50 million in financial aid and scholarships to fund its scholars’ college tuition and fees, and has placed participants in top-tier universities in
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