Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
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For core support of College Promise
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
College Promise is a nonpartisan organization that helms the national ‘promise movement’ to provide public funding the first two or more years of postsecondary education. They directly support a network of over 450 “Promise programs” across all fifty states with the goal of ensuring that all students in the United States have access to the education, training, and support necessary to achieve social and economic mobility. To address male economic disconnection, where only 57 percent of male high school graduates proceed to college, and many men aged 18-24 are neither in education nor employment, College Promise will collaborate with stakeholders in Louisiana, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Georgia. They will develop state-level frameworks integrating Promise programs with workforce priorities, train 40-60 staff, and develop policy briefs and a comprehensive implementation guide to ensure men receive seamless support for education, career counseling, and financial assistance. This initiative will enable states to adopt policies that help men enroll in and complete programs leading to high-demand jobs.
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For core support of More Perfect
Date
Sep. 11, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
More Perfect is an alliance of cross-partisan partners that includes all thirty-seven U.S. Presidential Centers, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a diverse network of more than 130 additional organizations. This alliance is committed to strengthening and renewing the nation’s democratic foundations through five core democracy goals (as recommended by the American Academy’s A Common Purpose report): ensuring universal civic learning, making national and state service and volunteerism a shared expectation, reducing polarization by bridging divides, securing trusted elections and a more representative and responsive government, and expanding access to high-quality, nonpartisan, and reliable information at the local, state, and national levels. With Corporation support, More Perfect aims to protect and revitalize democracy as the United States approaches the commemoration of its 250th anniversary and beyond.
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For core support of the Trust for Civic Life
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences published Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century, a report issued after conducting fifty listening sessions across the country to understand the factors that encourage and discourage people from engaging with their communities, especially in small towns and rural areas. In response to the report’s recommendations, the Trust for Civic Infrastructure was founded. Fiscally sponsored by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the trust is a donor collaborative and learning network that aims to strengthen civic infrastructure at the local level, increase social trust, and build civic agency. The trust’s programmatic areas consist of grantmaking, network building, learning, and field building. With Corporation support, the trust will create a pipeline of local funding, reach overlooked and underfunded geographic areas, especially in rural areas, and engage local communities in how to improve their civic infrastructure.
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For core support of College Promise
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Since September 9, 2015, College Promise has promoted and led a nonpartisan, collaborative movement at the local and state levels to increase the quality and quantity of Promise programs across the nation. Today, College Promise supports 339 local Promise communities and 30 Promise states (including DC). College Promise’s mission is to help all Americans benefit from education, training, and student supports to meet their full potential. College Promise delivers its mission by connecting students to College Promise programs that provide scholarships for tuition, fees, and other college costs and student supports; increasing the quality and quantity of College Promise programs across the nation; and identifying, promoting, and scaling evidence-based research and policies that enable high-impact Promise practices, adoption, and replication in communities and states.
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For support of a project to expand and improve national service opportunities
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Growing polarization among Americans and declining trust in fellow citizens pose substantial threats to democracy. Civilian national service can provide rites of passage for young people as they come of age to make contributions to their communities and country, learn to collaborate with people who have different backgrounds and beliefs, and develop core skills that can make them more effective in the workplace and in civic life. More Perfect is an initiative of more than one hundred partners working to protect and revitalize U.S. democracy. One of its primary goals is to convene leading experts and innovators in volunteer service to expand and improve current voluntary service models, both at the federal and state levels. With Corporation support, More Perfect will improve opportunities for youth service at the state level.
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For core support of Welcome.US, a national initiative to involve the business community, philanthropy, and the public in resettling Afghan refugees
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Launched to assist in the resettling of 100,000 Afghan refugees in the United States after the end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Welcome.US is a national initiative that is building sustainable infrastructure and public will for refugee resettlement. Welcome.US is collaborating with governments and trusted nonprofit organizations to develop co-sponsorship opportunities that enable private corporations and civic organizations to fill gaps in the existing resettlement pipeline. These partnerships are providing organizational and logistics support to overwhelmed resettlement agencies at the local level. Welcome.US is also developing technology platforms that will help resettled refugees to access material goods, information about jobs, services, and housing, and more. With Corporation support, Welcome.US will work closely with government agencies to identify gaps in the resettlement infrastructure and mobilize institutions in the private and social sectors to address them.
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For core support of College Promise
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Since September 9, 2015, College Promise has promoted and led a nonpartisan, collaborative movement at the local and state levels to increase the quality and quantity of Promise programs across the nation. Today, College Promise supports 339 local Promise communities and 30 Promise states (including DC). College Promise’s mission is to help all Americans benefit from education, training, and student supports to meet their full potential. College Promise delivers its mission by connecting students to College Promise programs that provide scholarships for tuition, fees, and other college costs and student supports; increasing the quality and quantity of College Promise programs across the nation; and identifying, promoting, and scaling evidence-based research and policies that enable high-impact Promise practices, adoption, and replication in communities and states.
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For core support of the College Promise Campaign
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The College Promise Campaign (CPC), founded in 2015 with partial support from the Corporation, addresses an urgent national need to make postsecondary opportunities affordable and accessible to all. The Campaign works to build widespread public understanding that free community college is a vital investment in the social and economic well-being of students, families, and the nation. It also provides local and state leaders with the resources and support they need to initiate effective College Promise programs and research-based practices successfully. These programs continue to gain ground in states and localities across the country, earning bipartisan support and putting college within reach of many high-need students, particularly first-generation college goers.
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For the Academy for College Excellence's Disseminating Solutions for Serving Vulnerable Community College Students project
Date
Jun. 06, 2013
Duration
12 months
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For the planning phase of the National Purpose Initiative
Date
Sep. 12, 2013
Duration
12 months
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For continuation of learning network for higher education involvement in Common Core State Standards
Date
Dec. 05, 2013
Duration
12 months
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For increasing student and system capacity for college success using the Academy for College Excellence model
Date
Dec. 13, 2012
Duration
24 months
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For capacity building of the Academy for College Excellence program
Date
Jun. 09, 2011
Duration
12 months
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For a Leaning Network for Higher Education involvement in Common Core State Standards
Date
Dec. 15, 2011
Duration
24 months