Growth Philanthropy Network
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
Systems failures require systems solutions. However, the social sector and society at large lack the capacity to effectively develop and pursue systems change approaches. Growth Philanthropy Network intends to address that lack of capacity through a multi-sector forum devoted to equitable systems change and racial equity, that serves as avehicle to build collective capacity to pursue systemic change.This grant will support the Growth Philanthropy Network’s efforts toalign the philanthropic sectoron indicators of systems change and advance efforts to collaboratively fund systemic transformation.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Systems failures require systems solutions. However, the social sector and society at large lack the capacity to effectively develop and pursue systems change approaches. Growth Philanthropy Network intends to address that lack of capacity by establishing the Systems Forum, a multi-sector forum devoted to equitable systems change and racial equity that serves as avehicle to build our collective capacity to pursue systemic change. The Forum will help catalyze a shift in the education sector to be more student-centered through a focus on optimizing systems, removing barriers, and creating the systemic conditions that enable significant improvements; promoting stakeholder engagement from across the education system; enhancing adult capacity; and building knowledge through a learning hub. This grant will support the Forum’s launch and initial activities.
Project Title
For the Social Impact Exchange Learning Community on Scaled Impact in Education
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
The effectiveness of any single intervention in education reform is often diminished because many organizations work in isolation, and because there are few mechanisms to facilitate and ensure coordinated approaches that spread effective, complimentary practices and solutions. As a result, the achievement of broad, population-level impact in education has been elusive. The Social Impact Exchange (SIE) at Growth Philanthropy Network (GPN) seeks to minimize these missed opportunities, inefficiencies, and decreased impact by creating a system in the social sector to consistently scale promising practices and effective interventions. This grant supports SIE’s ongoing education working group, the Learning Community on Scaled Impact, which seeks to strengthen and deepen the learning and knowledge about the most current thinking and research for achieving large-scale impact in education.
Project Title
For the Learning Community on Scaled Impact in Education
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
The effectiveness of any single intervention in education reform is often diminished because many organizations work in isolation, and because there are few mechanisms to facilitate and ensure coordinated approaches that spread effective, complimentary practices and solutions. As a result, the achievement of broad, population-level impact in education has been elusive. The Social Impact Exchange (SIE) at Growth Philanthropy Network (GPN) seeks to minimize these missed opportunities, inefficiencies, and decreased impact by creating a system in the social sector to consistently scale promising practices and effective interventions. This grant supports SIE’s ongoing education working group, the Learning Community on Scaled Impact, which seeks to strengthen and deepen the learning and knowledge about the most current thinking and research for achieving large-scale impact in education.
Project Title
For the Learning Community on Scaled Impact in Education and the Planning Phase of the Education Systems Transformation in Massachusetts
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
There remains a very large gap between taking what we ‘know’ works well in education and making sure that the appropriate, integrated set of initiatives (practices, policy, communications, etc.) are available to all students, families and communities who need them. As a result, the achievement of broad, population-level impact in education has been elusive. The Social Impact Exchange (SIE) at Growth Philanthropy Network exists to address these gaps through the development of collaborative, cross-sector networks that work in concert to achieve systems transformation and scaled outcomes on specific issues. This grant supports two related projects: (1) SIE’s ongoing Learning Community on Scaled Impact, which seeks to strengthen and deepen the learning and knowledge about the most current thinking and research for achieving large-scale impact in education; and (2) the planning phase for a project that aims to reduce the poverty achievement gap in Massachusetts (which ranked first nationally in achievement gains in 2017 but 34th on the poverty achievement gap) by establishing a place-based, cross-sector collaborative network that implements a common strategy to transform the MA education system.
Project Title
For the Education Working Group and learning community
Date
Jun. 09, 2016
Duration
12 months
Description
The effectiveness of any single intervention in education reform is often diminished because many organizations work in isolation, and because there are few mechanisms to facilitate and ensure coordinated approaches that spread effective, complimentary practices and solutions. The Growth Philanthropy Network (GPN) seeks to minimize these missed opportunities, inefficiencies, and decreased impact by creating a system in the social sector to consistently scale promising practices and effective interventions. Within GPN, the funder Education Working Group collectively scales effective education initiatives (including policies, programs, and practices). With Corporation support, GPN is now creating a learning and action community for these funders and others to learn the latest theories, methods, research and strategies related to achieving large-scale impact, then to take collective action on a chosen issue in education.