Summer Advantage USA is a national non-profit organization providing elementary and middle school students living in lowâÂÂperforming school districts with research-based summer learning programs focused on academic gains.
Summer Advantage USA was launched in January 2009 in Indiana by Earl Martin Phalen, who founded the organization in September 2008 and is its CEO.
Phalen originally cofounded a community service outreach organization known as BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) in June 1993.