DREAM, then Harlem RBI, is founded when a group of volunteers transforms an abandoned, garbage-strewn lot into two baseball diamonds for the youth in East Harlem.

DREAM launches its award-winning REAL Kids summer learning program, the organization’s first formal effort to build a bridge between the ball field and the classroom.

The newly renovated Field of Dreams opens in East Harlem on what the front page of The New York Times once called “the worst block in NYC.” Harlem RBI’s sports-based youth development programs become a model and symbol of the power of play for young people everywhere.

DREAM Charter School opens to more deeply serve the community of East Harlem through an extended-day, extended-year whole child community school model.

East Harlem Center for Living and Learning opens to local and national acclaim. The permanent home of DREAM Charter School—part of a mixed-use development that includes affordable housing and a new public park—is the first public school building to be constructed in East Harlem in nearly 50 years.

DREAM Charter High School opens its doors with a founding class of 9th graders, ensuring that our teenage scholars transition successfully to college, careers, and beyond.

Six years after DREAM first brought its summer program to the Bronx, DREAM Mott Haven opens with a founding class of kindergarteners.

DREAM opens its second anchor location at 20 Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven.