Global Impact
Project Title
For a final grant to conduct a qualitative study of family engagement practices and the launch of a public information campaign on the science of learning.
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
This grant to Learning Heroes consists of two projects.The first project is the final phase of a study on family engagement practices, which includes an analysis of the strategies that enabled schools with effective family engagement practices to perform better during the pandemic. The study will culminate in a policy report and inform a measurement tool for family engagement practices. The second project will design and execute a campaign on the science of learning and human development. Learning Heroes and The Human Potential L.A.B.will develop and manage a public awareness campaign to offer practical tools for youth emotional well-being and learning. The campaign will translate the science of learning into accessible language, benefiting educators devoted to helping youth achieve their highest potential.
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Project Title
For core support of Learning Heroes
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
American school systems were not designed to promote home-school partnerships. Families are sometimes viewed as spectators to the work of schools; their expertise and cultural capital are ignored; engagement efforts assume an assimilation function, where families are viewed as the ones who need to change, not schools. Learning Heroes, an organization founded as a project of the New Venture Fund in 2014, supports parents as their child’s most effective education advocate. With Corporation support, Learning Heroes plans to work directly with districts and states to drive impact by building the capacity of educators to engage families more effectively. Specifically, they will develop the capacity of teachers and leaders to create and put into practice family engagement strategies that impact student learning and strengthen the capacity of their team around their expanded capacity-building and technical assistance workstreams.
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For assessing, planning and helping to create an innovating International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)/ Program of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT) fundraising initiative in the United States
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
9 months
Description
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is increasingly looking for public-private partnerships to complement member state funding in a time of resource constraints. Through this grant, Global Impact will partner with the IAEA’s Technical Cooperation Department to build capacity for communications and fundraising and explore public-private partnerships. Global Impact will work with the IAEA to increase awareness of the organization’s sustainable development activities and identify new sources of funding.