Albany Fund For Education

09/29/2026

What an amazing night! These are the kind of collaborations that we live for at AFE.

09/26/2026

So excited to be at The Egg with the Steep Canyon Rangers and the Albany High School Jazzmanian Devils!

09/26/2026

More amazing coverage on the Jazzmanian Devils!

An exciting opportunity is in store for one local student band, offering a chance to take their performance to the next level. The Albany High School Advanced Jazz Ensemble will share the stage wit…

09/25/2026

The Albany Fund for Education's revised mission is "to mobilize community partnerships and resources to expand opportunities, ignite curiosity, and support equitable learning experiences for our students and educators in Albany." This collaboration bringing together the District, the Egg, and outside financial resources to offer Albany students a truly unique experience is a perfect example of this mission in action!

Albany High’s Jazzmanian Devils will be the opening act when the Grammy-winning bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers plays at The Egg next Saturday.

The concert will be in The Egg’s Swyer Theatre beginning at 7 p.m. on Sept. 26. Tickets are available through The Egg box office and online at The Egg's website, with a 10% discount using the code STEEP10.

You can visit our website to read more, including how the event grew from an outstanding field trip supported by two great partners - Can'd Aid and the Albany Fund for Education - to an amazing chance to step into the spotlight for our student-musicians: https://www.albanyschools.org/news/1830909/albany-high-band-to-open-at-the-egg-for-steep-canyon-rangers

“We emphasize the importance of creating authentic experiences for all of our students to develop their skills and interests through real-world, hands-on opportunities like this,” said Superintendent Joseph Hochreiter.

09/18/2026

HELP PUT YOUNG MUSICIANS ON THE STAGE AT THE EGG! 🎹

The Capital Jazz Collective (Supt. Hochreiter and music teachers Anthony Berman and Rob Lindquist) is playing for a pretty special reason tonight!

Albany High School’s Jazzmanian Devils have an incredible opportunity: on September 26, these student-musicians will take the stage at The Egg and open for Grammy-winning Steep Canyon Rangers

That’s the kind of experience a young musician never forgets.

Capital Jazz Collective will be performing tonight (Sept. 18) at New Scotland Spirits from 6-9pm Proceeds will help support these students and their opportunity to experience — and perform — live music on a professional stage. Come join us!

09/11/2026

The last week of "Hunger Doesn't Take a Summer Vacation" was sponsored by National Grid. Their staff didn't hesitate to roll up their sleeves and dig in (after calling 811, of course), packing bags full of onions, bananas, potatoes, and fruit cocktail cups, along with the staples - peanut butter and jelly, beef ravioli - and bread and sweets from our friends at Bimbo Bakeries USA. Albany High SRO Nick Schuler and the Albany High School Do Gooders Club also lent a much needed hand.

Thank you to the Regional Food Bank, our community sponsors, school staff, and the hundreds of volunteers who made this possible. Together, you fed almost 500 students for 8 weeks, providing them with more than 60,000 pounds of food! Also, a huge thank you to the CSDA Maintenance Dept for their assistance, and to Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School for hosting us this summer. See you next year!

09/03/2026

Whew! Trying to catch up on our social media posts as the first day of school comes closer and closer... Our sponsor for the seventh week of "Hunger Doesn't Take a Summer Vacation" sponsor was one of our favorite community partners - the University at Albany!

Volunteers from U Albany's Office of Government and Community Relations packed bags full of plums, bread, tuna, mayo, spaghetti and sauce - and much more! U Albany volunteers were also joined by a great crew of volunteers from APSUE - the Albany Public School United Employees union.

08/26/2026

Thank you CDPHP for helping us to nourish Albany students this summer! A wonderful crew of CDPHP volunteers packed weekend food bags for 485 students full of delicious and nutritious food - including whole pineapples (!), provided by our friends at the Regional Food Bank. Thank you as well to Alias Coffee for ensuring that our students get produce every week by picking up from the Food Bank on the weeks we don't get deliveries!