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Project Title
For core support of The Hechinger Report
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
The Hechinger Report is an independent, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University. As a nonprofit newsroom focused on inequality and innovation in education, its mission is to inform the public about the challenges faced by students and educators in the United States and engage readers in the national debate on education improvement. They provide their work freely to readers, believing that reliable journalism is a public service that should be accessible to all. They collaborate with partner news outlets to reach a diverse audience and provide critical information to those who can make a difference.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
A matrix of challenges in education stemming from the disruptionscaused by the COVID-19 pandemic suggests that recovery will require an equallyintricate matrix of solutions. In a world unfortunately consumed bymisinformation, there’s a need to enhance public understanding, and to achievethat we needed to deliver straightforward, precise, and in-depth reporting.With a six-year track record of leading a fact-based conversation about whatwas broken in American schools and about the innovators working to fix them,The 74, a nonprofit news organization mobilized to provide in-depth coverage ofthe pandemic deployed correspondents in seven U.S. cities to present uniquestories about the impact of the pandemic on education and how its disruptioncreated disproportionate impacts in low-income communities and communities ofcolor. With renewed support from the Corporation, The 74 will continue to coverboth local and national topics that concern our communities and will focus itsjournalism on a number of issues that experts say are critical to getting studentsback on track in a post-pandemic world.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Multilingual Learners (MLLs) make up an increasingly large segment of the nation’s public school population, yet they continue to be underserved by schools and systems that were designed primarily for native English speakers. Internationals Network (Internationals) works with educators to design, develop, and support schools and programs for recently arrived immigrants and refugees. The network has a nearly forty-year history and now comprises thirty-one schools and academies serving 10,000 immigrant and refugee youth, who perform better than students in comparison schools and graduate at significantly higher rates than their peers. Prior Corporation support enabled Internationals to launch and support schools, develop professional and leadership development resources, improve schools’ capacity to strategically use data for continuous improvement, and influence policy and practice by disseminating resources. Continued support will allow Internationals to strengthen school practice, build the capacity of school staff to address the needs of MLLs in the post-pandemic context, and share learning with the field.
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As a final general support grant
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
15 months
Description
High-quality instructional materials alone cannot improve student learning and the need for curriculum-based professional learning is evident. District leaders need support in making decisions about materials selection and successful implementation through an evidence-based process that effectively plans for curriculum-based professional learning. Student Achievement Partners (SAP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving student learning outcomes through standards-aligned, culturally relevant teaching. With Corporation funding, they have developed the Essential x Equitable (e2) Instructional Practice Framework to support the next phase of a sector-wide movement to improve education. Through this renewal general support grant, SAP will continue to design evidence-based tools, resources, and professional learning to support teachers and district leaders. They will also explore a new business model to diversify funding sources to contribute to the organization’s sustainability.
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Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Building on previous Corporation-funded work, the African Leadership Centre (ALC), which co-exists at King’s College London (King’s) and in Nairobi as an independent center, will continue supporting African-led peacebuilding research and training on the continent. Among its key programs, ALC offers a master’s degree and a joint PhD program at King’s and the University of Pretoria. In 2017, it launched a research agenda on critical topics at the nexus of peacebuilding and leadership, emphasizing links between theory and practice. Research teams convene senior and emerging scholars and practitioners across disciplines. ALC’s growing alumni network connects African universities and policy bodies to conduct high-quality field research and share results with relevant policymakers. Renewed Corporation support would advance these practical and field-building efforts.
Project Title
For a project to develop classroom videos of OpenSciEd middle school instruction to support curriculum-based professional learning services
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
6 months
Description
The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) plays a pivotal role in reforming science education. They were a partner in the development of the Next Generation Science Standards and have significant experience in preparing science teachers to implement high-quality science materials. This renewal grant will allow NSTA to develop videos of OpenSciEd professional learning sessions for middle school science teachers. NSTA will use these videos to create a library of NGSS-aligned curriculum-based professional learning sessions using the OpenSciEd middle school curricula. This will allow other professional learning organizations in the field to have an exemplar of high-quality, science professional learning.As an August discretionary grant, NSTA can continue their partnership with Benchfly, a video production company that focuses on science education, and use this momentum to develop professional learning videos to strengthen the classroom videos currently in production.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
33 months
Description
Educators and innovators across the country have proven that it is possible to deliver high-quality learning experiences that support students’ diverse needs and interests. However, the field lacks the capacity to sustain these innovations at scale such that all students benefit. The Learning Accelerator (TLA) addresses this by connecting and accelerating efforts and catalyzing national transformation through greater collaboration, coordination, and action across actors at every level. With prior Corporation support, TLA developed and led several large, cross-sector initiatives to produce open resources for the field and support widespread change. This was especially critical during the pandemic, when TLA launched immediate response efforts including a coaching network that supported over 200 district leaders serving two million students in making strategic decisions about how to deploy their stimulus resources. Continued Corporation support will allow TLA to build the education sector’s capacity for aligned action by ensuring decision-makers have access to the information, tools, and networks they need to advance this vision in their contexts and catalyzing collective change to tackle critical shared challenges in service of a more equitable future.
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For core support of 100% Democracy: An Initiative for Universal Voting
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
In 2020, 154.6 million people turned out to vote in the United States presidential election. While it was the highest turnout of the 21st century, it represented only 66.8% of eligible voters. 100% Democracy: An Initiative for Universal Voting was launched in 2022 to advance the idea of universal voting. The initiative follows the publication of 100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting, written by Miles Rapoport and E.J. Dionne, Jr., with Corporation support. By making voting a requirement for every citizen, the initiative hopes to reshape voting as both a fundamental right and a civic responsibility. In addition, it would remove barriers to voting, expanding the influence of communities whose voices and votes have been suppressed. With Corporation support, 100% Democracy will engage with voting rights leaders, advocates, and policymakers to encourage the adoption of universal voting and increase voter participation.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Fundamentaltransformations at the state and district levels will require the activeleadership of action-oriented state and district “chiefs,” leaders positioned to address many of the most pressing challenges facing oureducation system today. This includes direct support to district and stateleaders to implement proven improvement strategies, including ensuring thateducators receive the training they need to implement high-qualityinstructional materials; redesigning our K12 systems in alignment with better,more affordable postsecondary pathways; and embedding parent and communityengagement for equitable, sustainable change. Founded in 2015, Chiefs forChange (CfC) is a nonprofit organization led by bold and innovative Chiefsserving in bipartisan administrations that supports its members in tacklingthese challenges. Continued support from the Carnegie Corporation of New Yorkwill enable CfC to accelerate its impact on K-12 education through three keylevers: leadership development, policy and advocacy, and technical assistance.
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For core support of the LearnerStudio
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
There is no shortage of education innovations nor of appetite on the part of communities for improvement, however systemic transformation remains elusive. For the last two years, the Corporation has engaged a group of funders in a dialogue about the need and complexity of change required to respond to the educational toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of that inquiry, prior support enabled social entrepreneur Kim Smith, housed at Cambiar Education (Cambiar), to conduct an analysis of the landscape of innovation in the education sector and the implications for the future of learning as the system emerges from the pandemic.This analysis spurred the development of a new initiative, “the LearnerStudio,” to support the sector’s movement toward a learner-centered, whole child system. With seed funding from the Corporation, Cambiar will launch the LearnerStudio to create greater connectivity across the education ecosystem, organize stakeholders around lighthouse initiatives, and establish the knowledge infrastructure needed to galvanize shared vision and action toward a future learning system.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
EveryoneOn creates social and economic opportunities by connecting low-income families to affordable internet service and computers and delivering digital skills trainings. Since 2012 EveryoneOn has connected over a million people to high-speed internet, deployed thousands of devices, and facilitated hundreds of digital training across the nation for the most vulnerable among us. The pandemic exacerbated the negative impacts of the existing digital divide, namely the lack of high-speed internet at home, a reliable internet connection,and access to resources and support to prepare for postsecondary education for low-income students. Corporation support will allow for the continued implementation of their Bridges-to-Tech program, building pathways to digital resilience and equity, college access, and career exploration and readiness for high school students and adults in the Bay Area, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, South Salt Lake, and Jersey City.
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For core support of the College Access: Research & Action (CARA) model outside of New York City
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
College Access: Research & Action (CARA) ensures that first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color have the knowledge and support necessary to enroll in and persist through college. Continued support from the Corporation will allow CARA to complete a range of policy research projects and disseminate them to colleagues in New York City and beyond. CARA hopes to create a systemic impact in the field through this work and equip stakeholders with the data needed to change policy, practice, and resource flows.
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For core support for the CivXNow Coalition
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, student proficiency in civic knowledge has stagnated at 20 to 25 percent over the last twenty-five years. This is due to the decline in civic education that has been ongoing for decades. The 2021 Harvard Youth Poll found that the majority of youth from ages 18 to 29 believe that U.S. democracy is “failing” or “in trouble,“ which has resulted in civic disengagement and a lack of trust in government. While decades of research confirm that civic education yields positive impacts on youth beyond the classroom, civic education reform is needed to ensure civics is taught in the classroom. Founded and led by iCivics, CivXNow is a coalition of over 310 cross-ideological partners throughout the country advancing civic education policies at state and federal levels. With Corporation support, CivXNow will advocate for expanded civic education in the K-12 school curricula.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Many industries are in the process of outsourcing their entire computing power (store, manage, and process data) to cloud computing platforms which can reduce information Technology costs significantly. This shift to cloud computing represents a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity for companies and high-paying positions for individuals with skills in this field. However, there is a shortage of skilled workers that can support the massive migration and maintenance to cloud computing. Kura Labs bridges the gap by training high-performing, under-resourced students and graduates from CUNY, private colleges, and community-based organizations (CBOs). Continued Corporation support will allow Kura Labs to continue to engage employers and colleges to train and connect highly talented and diverse students to fill the need for a skilled workforce in Cloud Computing.
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Project Title
For core support of Collaborative for Student Success
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
10 months
Description
It has been over a decade since the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards were released. These documents are transforming the way science is taught nationwide, but there is significant progress to be made to increase access to high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning to support science educators. An emerging set of states are taking promising steps towards this effort. Thus, this is an opportune moment to convene state teams of K-12 science educators, advocates, and stakeholders to develop a shared agenda to expand high-quality science education. This grant will allow Collaborative for Student Success, in partnership with the National Science Teaching Association and the Council of State Science Supervisors, to organize a two-day convening designed to create cohorts of state teams to a) develop strategic communications tactics and techniques and b) support policies and practices that advance high-quality K-12 science education.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1982, the National Immigration Forum is a national organization that brings diverse audiences from across the political spectrum into the immigration debate, helping to generate constructive conversations about the value of immigration to the United States. The forum believes the most effective way to broaden support for pro-immigrant policies is to help people calibrate their attitudes toward immigrants based on their existing beliefs, self-perception, and community norms. Among the forum’s trademark initiatives is Bibles, Badges, and Business (BBB), a national network of leaders from faith, law enforcement, and business who are helping to influence hearts and minds across the country. With Corporation support, the forum will continue to build relationships with leaders of diverse backgrounds and create values-based frameworks through which all Americans can recognize the importance of sensible and compassionate immigration reforms.
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For core support of the Charles A. Dana Center
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
The Charles A. Dana Center has taken up the challenge of replacing existing developmental and gateway math education models with mathematics pathways that propel students toward degrees, readiness for high-value careers, and informed, responsible citizenship. An accepted transformation moving to implementation at scale as a normative practice, the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) initiative creates pathways to educational and economic opportunity through systemic changes in mathematics education across the transition years from high school into higher education. The initiative replaces the one-size-fits-all approach of a single pathway through a procedural College Algebra course with multiple pathways such as statistics, quantitative reasoning, and mathematical modeling and analysis—all increasingly important for today’s workplaces. The project will increase stakeholder understanding of the value of a curriculum that includes statistics, quantitative literacy, and computational and data science.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The mission of Braven is to empower promising, underrepresented young people—first-generation college students, students from low-income backgrounds, and students of color—with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact. Braven has served over 6,100 college students; over 2,500 Fellows are now in the professional workforce. With Corporation support, Braven-NYC successfully launched at Lehman College-CUNY in January 2020, with over 815 Fellows enrolling and or completing their Accelerator course, building on the proven model it has been refining at three other universities since Braven’s first campus partnership in 2014. Continued Corporation support will allow Braven to further expand in NYC through its partnerships with CUNY.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
College Advising Corps (CAC) works to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. In partnership with 35 colleges and universities throughout the country, CAC matches advisers from a corps of recent college graduates with under-resourced high schools to help students find and pursue their best post-secondary education path. CAC “near-peer” advisers are embedded in low-income, underserved high schools for a two-year service engagement as full-time college advisers that serve all students. Between 2018 and 2020, Corporation support allowed CAC to serve over half a million students with a growing pool of over 800 advisers. Continued Corporation support will allow CAC to continue supporting capacity building as they strengthen their core advisement work.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
Get Schooled’s mission is to build better pathways to postsecondary success and public understanding for youth experiencing firsthand the systemic and interlocking barriers to attaining a postsecondary degree. They provide free college and career guidance to young people nationwide, leveraging digital program delivery’s power to scale services. Past Corporation support allowed Get Schooled to launch the #WeBelongInCollege campaign. It was most impactful among BIPOC, 1st-Gen, and immigrant youth and received over 600 powerful stories from students sharing how they’ve persevered in college despite their many challenges.Continued Corporation support will allow Get Schooled to grow and implement its programming and expand its reach to students most needing these services.
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For core support of the Partnership Advancing Youth Apprenticeship's (PAYA) pathways to careers in education
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship (PAYA) was created to restore the link between American education and economic mobility and challenge the inequities that persist across our education and work systems. After extensive research on youth apprenticeship in the U.S. and abroad, New America founded PAYA in 2018 as a multi-year initiative to expand access to high-quality apprenticeship opportunities for high school-age students. Since its launch, New America and the PAYA National Partners have worked to lay a foundation for this emerging field by advancing a shared national vision for youth apprenticeship and providing direct support to state and city-led efforts through the PAYA Network. Corporation support of PAYA extended their efforts to provide youth with structured, paid, supportive pathways into postsecondary education and work by supporting their place-based partnerships, building a networked, self-sustaining field, and strengthening the case for youth apprenticeships. They were also able to initiate research and evaluation efforts to surface information about the conditions and strategies that make the work successful.By the end of 2022, PAYA grantees had engaged over 270 employers in hiring more than 1,700 youth apprentices. In addition to the work in their own regions, grantees have been instrumental in sharing their learnings and best practices with other communities across the country through the PAYA Network.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Propel America offers a new way for young adults to move quickly to a job that gives them a stable career in healthcare while continuing their education. Too often, young people in the United States—especially BIPOC students from low-income backgrounds—are forced into a false choice after high school. They can forestall income and take on debt in hopes that a four-year degree will lead to a good job, or they can step into a low-wage job right away with little chance for advancement. With individual guidance and support, tuition-free training that also earns college credit, and guaranteed interviews with employer partners ready to hire, Propel removes these barriers by promoting a ‘jobs-first higher education’ model. Since its founding in 2019, with Corporation support, Propel has enrolled 375+ fellows across five regions and sustained a 63 percentcompletion rate while decreasing the cost per fellow by ~20 percentannually. Continued Corporation will allow Propel to increase the number of fellowships and expand its outreach towards reaching 1,000 young adults by 2025.
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For core support of the Cowen Institute
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The Cowen Institute at Tulane University’s mission is to advance public education and college and career success in the New Orleans community. As an organization, the Cowen Institute works to contextualize data and provide thought leadership, lead high-impact direct programming, build capacity in the education and workforce landscapes, and develop and shape innovative initiatives. Through this multi-faceted approach, the Cowen Institute is driving systemic change by leading efforts to increase postsecondary success for New Orleans youth. Past Corporation support allowed for publication of timely reports and resources related to youth disconnected from work and education in the city as a tool for practitioners serving this population. They were also able to move forward with a new partnership with the New Orleans Public Schools aligned to their Life After High School Work. Continued Corporation support will aid The Cowen Institute as they seek ways to remove the bottlenecks youth traverse as they move from K-12 to higher education to the world of work. They will also support, develop, and pilot innovative pathways to postsecondary success.
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For project support of the KIPP Postsecondary Success Collaborative
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
KIPP, a non-profit network of 255 college-preparatory public schools, seeks to substantially improve student outcomes, reach more students, and find scalable ways to support thousands of alumni on to college and career while sharing practices to benefit others. KIPP’s expanded aspiration for students and alumni is that they should have the skills and confidence to pursue their paths—college, career, and beyond— to lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world. Corporation support allowed KIPP buildout their college access and success strategies to continuously improve their college counseling, persistence, and career work; codified and scaled these strategies across the network; and began to share them with other CMOs and districts. This grant willbuildon that work focusing on KIPP’s high school and alumni success strategies.
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As a final core support grant of Scaling Student Success
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
The mission of Scaling Student Success (SSS) is to prepare young people holistically and equitably for future success. Their growing Community of Practice (CoP) includes California (CA) school districts dedicated to engaging their community stakeholders to create a Graduate Profile, which offers a renewed vision and definition of the college and career-ready student, serves as an impetus for shifting instructional practices and engaging students in deeper learning, and requires a shift in assessments that provide students authentic ways to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. Core support from the Corporation will allow SSS to continue supporting their CoP as well as their Reimagining CA Schools Innovation Pilot, engaging districts in constructing a community-informed, forward-thinking, student-centered strategy for redefining student success and dismantling longstanding inequities limiting opportunities and success of BIPOC students.
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For project support to promote pathways to postsecondary success through dual-enrollment, early-college and community-based campus programs
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
19 months
Description
The Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) is New England’s largest community college and one of the only college systems nationally to serve an entire state. CCRI serves students from historically marginalized communities in a state with a declining working-age population. By 2040, RI’s working-age population (20 – 64 years old) will shrink by 50,000, or 8 percentof the workforce. Only 33.1 percentof Black Rhode Islanders and 21.2 percentof Latinx Rhode Islanders have earned postsecondary credentials. Therefore, closing these equity gaps is imperative for CCRI and the state. Continued Corporation support will allow CCRI to continue its Coaching4Success pilot and demonstrate its scalability as a model to improve outcomes for these student populations via wraparound academic, coaching, and engagement support.
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For core support of the Community College Growth Engine
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
Education Design Lab (EDL) is a nonprofit that designs, tests and implements unique post-secondary education models and credentials that address the rapidly changing economy and emerging technology opportunities. By working across disciplines and sectors, the Lab demonstrates where technology, rigor, and design can improve opportunities for historically underserved learners. In March 2020, the Lab launched the Community College Growth Engine(CCGE) to support community college leadership in delivering skills-focused, market-driven education as regions struggle to mitigate an already growing skills gap further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Continued Corporation support will allow EDL to focus on expanding CCGEF to more colleges in the States.
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For core support of LAUNCH: Equitable & Accelerated Pathways for All Project
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Led by a collaborative of five national college and career pathway experts and philanthropic organizations, the LAUNCH Pathways initiative works with elevenstates and local partnerships across the U.S. to tackle entrenched inequities in education and workforce systems that have led to persistent gaps in pathways outcomes, especially for Black and Latinx students and those experiencing poverty. College and career pathways strategies have proven effective at improving outcomes for those involved, but access remains uneven. Continued Corporation support will allow LAUNCH partners to leverage their collective expertise and knowledge to help build partnerships, allow intermediary organizations to develop scalable and sustainable systems and next-generation solutions, and catalyze momentum in the field to transform our systems of career preparation.
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As a final general support grant
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
YouthForce NOLA (YouthForce) is an education, business, and civic collaborative that prepares New Orleans public school students to succeed in the high-wage, high-demand STEM career pathways available in the Greater New Orleans region. Previous Corporation support allowed YouthForce to develop sustainable solutions addressing students’ social and emotional needs in the face of the pandemic. Corporation support also assisted YouthForce in rebuilding the career awareness and exploration pipeline for students. It assisted training providers and schools to help high school students earn industry-recognized credentials aligned to careers. It provided rising seniors with meaningful work experience in internships aligned with employer needs while integrating soft skills into their programs. Continued Corporation support will allow YouthForce to focus on core system change priorities to increase the impact on students and ensure their long-term employment and economic success.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2009 and accredited in 2020, College Unbound (CU) is an innovative institution with a mission to reinvent the higher education experience for underserved adult learners using a student-driven model of rigorous and engaged scholarship. Students meet in person and online in student cohorts that stay together and motivate each other through degree completion. They pursue one major, Organizational Leadership and Change, and build their learning experiences around a project of their own design focusing on their professional or community interests. Currently, CU serves students in Greater Providence, Newport, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Corporation support will allow CU to expand its operational capacity to meet the demand for growth in Rhode Island and nationally.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
30 months
Description
The Knowledge House’s (TKH) mission is to empower and sustain a talent pipeline of technologists, entrepreneurs, and digital leaders who will uplift their communities out of poverty. Founded in 2014, TKH equips workers with the technology and skills that provide economic opportunity, living wages, and career mobility. TKH offers two innovative programs that train young people and job seekers with the skills necessary to enter the digital workforce. Since 2014, TKH has trained more than 2,000 young adults, with over 75 percentof participants successfully securing meaningful employment with salaries of more than $50,000. Corporation support will allow TKH to bolster these existing programs, enhancing job prospects for historically underestimated youth, and will strengthen TKH’s expansion efforts.
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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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As a final grant for project support for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU)
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
40 months
Description
The Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU) is a 7-week immersive summer experience in secondary science and mathematics education in New York City. Twelve undergraduate STEM majors are selected to participate and take a course in either science or mathematics pedagogy to apply what they learn to teach a summer enrichment class to New York City public school students under the supervision of a master teacher-mentor. This final grant will allow for the scale-up of the project to include evaluation and research to compare sites in terms of implementation and effectiveness.
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For core support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Defense Fund
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a policy established in 2012 via executive order to provide protection from deportation to eligible undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. The administrative relief also provides a work permit to those eligible and must be renewed every two years. DACA has been legally challenged in the courts since its inception and was most recently deemed unlawful by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Founded in 2008, United We Dream (UWD) is one of the leading organizations advocating for and defending DACA and immigrant rights. UWD launched the DACA Defense Fund to build the resources needed to prepare for the outcome of the court decision, which will most likely lead to a lengthy appeal to the United States Supreme Court. UWD’s DACA Defense Fund is preparing to respond appropriately and strategically while also continuing to advocate proactively for permanent solutions. With Corporation support, UWD will invest in an two-yearstrategy that emphasizesnonpartisan voter engagement, alliance building, and support for members of the DACA community.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
The deterioration of U.S.-China relations in recent years has exposed the fragile foundation of the bilateral relationship and the importance of sustained engagement in various forms to its stability. Efforts are needed to find new ways to inform and involve a broader base of stakeholders. The American Midwest’s extensive business and trading ties with China mean it is significantly impacted by the state of U.S.-China relations. Yet its stakeholders are seldomly engaged in the development of relevant foreign policies. The United States Heartland China Association (USHCA) is a multi-state, community-based organization that promotes understanding and trust between the American Midwest and China to bridge this engagement and representation gap. Corporation support will enable USHCA to foster channels of collaboration and opportunities for growth between the United States and China.
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For core support of the Bolder Advocacy program
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
A nonprofit, field-wide survey, conducted in 2022 found that nonprofits had a better understanding of the legal parameters of permissible policy and democratic participation two decades ago than they do today. Without a proper understanding of the government regulations on advocacy, nonprofits are faced with minimizing advocacy activities or not participating in advocacy at all, and this undercuts their ability to drive their mission forward. The Alliance for Justice and its Bolder Advocacy program educate nonprofits, foundations, and philanthropic partners by providing trainings and tools that support their advocacy efforts. With Corporation support, Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy program will continue to educate nonprofits to engage in advocacy in accordance with state and federal regulations to maximize their impact.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
According to the latest reports from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 89.3 million people around the world are currently displaced from their homes. Among them are 27 million refugees and 4.6 million asylum seekers from countries where poverty and active conflict have forced them to seek refuge abroad. Founded in 1933, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) provides emergency relief and sustainable development assistance to vulnerable populations affected by humanitarian crises. IRC provides health care, infrastructure, learning, and economic support to more than 23 million people around the world. With renewed Corporation support, the IRC will continue responding to global humanitarian crises, help meet the needs of some of the world’s most vulnerable populations, and advocate on behalf of refugees and the refugee resettlement program in the United States.
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For core support of the Student Success Network
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
One route to transforming the student experience is to build the capacity of schools and programs to integrate social emotional development into academic learning. Student Success Network (SSN) was founded in 2013 by leaders of community-based organizations in New York City, who organized around an expanded vision of socio-emotional development and academic learning as requisite to long-term success. The creation of SSN established a forum for their organizations to learn together, scale solutions, and use data to drive improvement. This proved successful in building practitioner capacity and creating greater coherence across the local ecosystem. Continued Corporation support will enable SSN to strengthen partnerships between members and city agencies in service of a more coordinated youth-serving sector, leverage practitioner and youth expertise to create solutions to barriers to equitable student outcomes, and increase the footprint of the network. SSN’s network has grown to eighty member organizations serving more than 400,000 low-income youth, and has expanded its focus and expertise to include elevating youth voice and leadership. In a recent survey, the vast majority of members reported increased access to resources that they would not otherwise have access to, stronger professional connections, and improved capacity to model the socio-emotional learning skills they aim to foster in youth.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
Today’s students require learning experiences that are personalized, mastery-based, and student-centered to prepare them to thrive in a dynamic future. Expanding access to these kinds of learning experiences requires building the local capacity and conditions necessary to scale and sustain them. Education Resource Strategies (ERS) is a national nonprofit working to transform how schools and systems utilize resources – people, time, and money – so that they can reliably and equitably deliver high-quality learning experiences to all students. Over the last two decades, ERS has directly supported leaders of over 100 school systems. In addition to deep engagements with districts and states, ERS has produced more than 300 publications and tools over the last five years, attracting 100,000 annual visitors to their website. Corporation support enabled ERS to help districts strategically allocate ESSER funding to support pandemic recovery, including facilitating a strategy network with more than twenty districts and developing a set of tools to guide ESSER spending. General support from the Corporation will enable ERS to deepen their impact by expanding three organizational focus areas: leadership development, state-level practice, and tool and resource development.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
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Latinos are 19 percent of the U.S. population, and 14 percent of the voting agepopulation. Despite the size of the population, Latinos continue to facediscrimination, including in access to voting. Founded in 1972, LatinoJusticePRLDEF (LJP) is a national civil rights organization committed todecreasing discrimination toward Latino communities through advocacy,education,andlitigation.LJP,alongwithpeercivilrightsorganizations,community-based organizations, and pro bono firms and lawyers,have successfully challenged systemic discriminatory practices. Thecollective impact has benefited Latinos and American society at large. Withrenewed Corporation support, LatinoJustice PRLDEF will continue its votingrights and immigrant civic integration work in the states.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
0 months
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Founded in 1978, Human Rights First (HRF) is an organization dedicated to realizing free and equal societies. For over forty years, HRF has held human rights offenders accountable and fortified systems that protect and uphold universal rights. HRF has established partnerships with the legal community, advocates, technologists, military veterans, security experts, and human rights supporters to strengthen its impact made through direct service and advocacy. These unique connections have offered HRF the tools to increase support for human rights from the public, private actors, and the U.S. government. With renewed Corporation support, HRF will continue its public policy advocacy in the United States and globally, focusing on reducing authoritarianism, extremism, and the misuse of technology.
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For core support of the Voting Rights Litigation Working Group
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
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Since the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder (2013), which gutted major voting rights protections under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), states have proposed hundreds of changes to election procedures designed to increase barriers to voting, even at the risk of reducing voter participation. As advocates work to restore federal protections once offered by the VRA, voting rights attorneys have been the main line of defense against laws that restrict the right to vote in states across the country. Housed at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) and established with Corporation support, the Voting Rights Litigation Working Group is comprised of twelve organizations with historic involvement in prominent voting rights litigation. With Corporation support, the Voting Rights Litigation Working Group, will continue to leverage its collective expertise to consult and collaborate on litigation and pre-litigation efforts to defend the voting rights of all American citizens.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
30 months
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While the nation has made impressive strides toward greater high school completion, college and career readiness have not kept pace. PENCIL brings together business leaders and educators to provide work-based learning (WBL) experiences that help prepare New York City students to succeed in today’s workforce. Prior Corporation support enabled PENCIL to develop and implement the Career Explorers Program, which provides WBL experiences designed to mirror real-world industry work decoupled from internship placements. The program has yielded strong student outcomes and provided a blueprint for scaling summer youth employment. Corporation support also allowed PENCIL to conduct an evaluation of program strengths, opportunities for improvement, and gaps in the field, which PENCIL shared in a series of research briefs. Continued Corporation support will allow PENCIL to expand its programming in New York City schools, broker industry partnerships for schools, and deepen organizational impact through strategic partnerships with other community organizations and higher education institutions.
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For a project to continue into Year 3 of the NEXUS Academy for Science Curriculum Leadership
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
24 months
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The Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) require teachers to shift instruction to engage students in relevant phenomena using science and engineering practices. As a result, there is a growing demand for high-quality science instructional materials designed for the Framework and the NGSS. Now that theOpenSciEdmiddle school science curriculum is completed, many schools and districts around the country are ready to formally adopt and implementOpenSciEd. WestEd and BSCS Science Learning are developing the capacity of state and district leadership teams through the NEXUS Academy for Science Curriculum Leadership. They will provide professional learning and support a cohort of four state and eight district leadership teams to lead effective implementation of theOpenSciEdmiddle school curriculum in their individual contexts. They also plan to work with Horizon Research to conduct an impact evaluation of the three-year curriculum leadership program.
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For a final grant to the Center for Educational Equity's continued work on civics education and equity
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Readying young people for their civic responsibilities in a democracy has historically been an essential role of U.S. schools; today it is more important than ever. Yet, one of the many harmful effects of ongoing race- and class-based educational inequities is that large numbers of students, particularly students in poverty and students of color, leave high school without the knowledge, skills, experience, and dispositions to engage effectively in political and civic life. Founded in 2005, the Center for Educational Equity (CEE) is a nonprofit policy and research center at Teachers College, Columbia University, that utilizes a rights-based approach to ensure that school systems are preparing young people to participate meaningfully in civic life. Support from the corporation will further CEE efforts to improve the capacity of New York Schools to prepare their students for civic participation and strengthen the national movement for civic education by increasing public understanding of constitutional rights to civics education.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
24 months
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The Urban Schools Human Capital Academy (USHCA) is the national leader in human capital reform in education and is dedicated to the development, support, and networking of leaders with human capital responsibilities. The mission of USHCA is to ensure that all students, especially those who have been historically marginalized, have access to effective teaching. Since its founding in 2011, USHCA has supported states, districts, schools, and partner organizations to align, manage, and leverage their people’s knowledge, skills, and abilities to meet student learning goals and improve retention of teachers, leaders, and other school staff. They do this by strengthening the capacity of district human resource (HR) departments to better align with the needs of schools. Through this renewal grant, USHCA will continue to work to more closely align talent work across all levels of the system and support a dialogue to create coherence across talent strategies.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Research has demonstratedthat proximate leaders positively impact the outcomes of the populationsthey serve. However, in the field of education reform, leaders often do not reflect the socio-economic or racial diversity of the communities they work with. Today more than ever, the sustainability of efforts to improve outcomes for young people depends on the inclusion of leaders who reflect those being served. With support from the Corporation, the Surge Institute has graduated nearly 350fellows with alumni working with and leading organizations that collectively serve more than 3.4 million students across the United States. Additional support will allow further organizational and program development required to support and accelerate the impact of leaders of color to drive equitable access, outcomes, and experiences for young people, families, and communities.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
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Latinos for Education’s (L4E) mission is to develop, place and connect essential Latino leadership in the education sector while mobilizing Latino voice to promote practices and policies that remove barriers to educational opportunity. Their programs accelerate leadership pipelines, mobilize leaders and communities, and connect Latino leaders through technology. They have in-person hubs in New England and Greater Houston and virtual sites in eight different cities across the country. Their signature programs include the Aspiring Latino Leaders Fellowship; the Latino Board Fellowship; the Latinx Teachers Fellowship; and the School Board Preparation Program. Working from within and around educational systems, they are developing a local-national mobilized base of teachers and leaders to promote a shared advocacy platform to elevate Latino voices.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
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Collective Change Lab (CCL)was founded based on the belief that no single individual, intervention, or organization can scale change alone; and that achieving population-level impact requires a focus on both the cultural dimensions (e.g. attention to power, relationships and mental models) of systems transformation as well as the structural (policy, practice, resource flow). From this foundation, CCL aims to catalyze, along with other contributors, a collective shift in how we address social challenges so that the approaches taken balance cultural change with structural change, to produce systemic change.Continued support will allow CCL to further its work to elevate concrete examples of transformational changeanddevelop the capacity of practitioners to operate in ways that produce more equitable outcomes for those they serve.
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As a final grant for the Coherence Lab
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Disconnected and sometimes dueling education reform initiatives cause inefficiency, confusion, alienation and lackluster results. This lack of integration occurs at the federal, state, district, and school levels due in part to lacking organizational capabilities, structures, and incentives for effective cross-agency integration and collaboration. With support from the Corporation, the Coherence Lab Fellowship was launched in 2017 as a practical solution to addressing these challenges. Based on the success of the Fellowship, in 2022, CCSSO stood up the Coherence Lab, which offers multiple supports for education leaders who intentionally and strategically build coherence in their own agencies. With continued support from the Corporation, CCSSO will apply the coherence framework to the thirteen states that are members of the High-Quality Instructional Materials and Professional Development Network CCSSO. CCSSO will also expand access to professional learning on coherence by developing new learning modules that can be used with existing CCSSO networks.
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