TSNE MissionWorks
Project Title
For building capacity for next generation family and community engagement
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
21 months
Description
Through research on family engagement, we have learned that it is necessary to build the capacity of teachers and practitioners to partner with families in support of student learning. While practitioners recognize this need, it is often difficult to access and navigate through the various preservice, continuing education, and organizational learning tools available. The Global Family Research Project aims to collect and disseminate research-informed and on-the-ground strategies in family and community engagement in order to achieve more equitable learning opportunities. Building on its planning grant, the Global Family Research Project will build hubs of practice by documenting professional and organizational learning practices, elevate innovative policies on family, school, and community engagement, and promote change through active learning with leading partners in the field. With continued support from the Corporation, the Global Family Research Project will strengthen its organizational maintenance and sustainability, build the capacities of organizations and networks, and disseminate its work for practitioners in the field.
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For support of the Global Family Research Project to conduct a landscape analysis of family engagement capacity-building efforts
Date
Dec. 06, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
Despite the importance for developing, scaling, and sustaining family and community engagement efforts, education organizations often lack the capacity to effectively support and engage families in sustainable ways. With increased demand for professional and organizational development strategies, frameworks, and tools that engage families and communities, there is an opportunity to understand the landscape and then use proven strategies to support educators, training providers, and community organizations through professional training and capacity-building. The Global Family Research Project, the successor to the Harvard Family Research Project, conducts rigorous research that advances the field of family, school, and community engagement. With support from the Corporation, Global Family Research Project will conduct a landscape analysis of the gaps and opportunities in the field, identify promising methods and approaches, and provide the field with best practices in training and capacity building efforts.
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For the Global Family Research Project strengthening family engagement through public libraries
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
18 months
Description
Global Family Research Project (formerly Harvard Family Research Project) promotes innovative, on the ground strategies in family and community engagement to achieve more equitable learning opportunities for children and youth. Despite five decades of research pointing to family, school, and community engagement as one of the most important predictors of student success, we find that how family, school, and community engagement is carried out in communities does not reflect what we know about its power. Over the past year, the GFRP has found enormous potential in public libraries in helping to build equitable, coherent, and strong pathways for family engagement and student learning. Based on this research, GFRP plans to work to increase libraries’ capacity to innovate and implement effective family, school, and community engagement practices. With support from the Corporation, GFRP will aim to spread and scale libraries’ family engagement practices by engaging in a variety of activities, including the creation of a Library Learning and Innovation Hub – a virtual portal that spurs innovation and challenges the field to work more intentionally towards effective family, school, and community engagement practices. They will raise up the important and ongoing efforts happening every day in libraries around the country and work in partnership with these libraries to promote new ideas and strategies.
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Project Title
As a final grant toward development and national expansion of the Nonprofit Quarterly
Date
Oct. 09, 2003
Duration
12 months