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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1968 by leaders of the civil rights, labor, and anti-poverty movements, the Center for Community Change (now known as Community Change) is a national organization that aims to build the power of low-income communities to change the policies and institutions that impact their lives. Community Change has expanded its work with immigrant communities, and today leads the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), the largest coalition of grassroots immigrant rights organizations in the United States. With Corporation support, Community Change will provide policy and technical support, training, capacity building, and opportunities for collaboration among state and local groups throughout the country, deepening year-round civic engagement in communities of color and developing a base of grassroots leaders.
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As a one-time only core support grant for the Armenia Tree Project
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1994, Armenia Tree Project (ATP) has assisted the Armenian people in using trees to improve their standard of living and protect the global environment. In doing so, ATP is guided by the need to promote self-sufficiency, aid to those with the fewest resources first, and conserve the indigenous ecosystem. ATP has planted approximately 7,000,000 trees in Armenia and Artsakh. In addition to creating new forests and benefiting the environment, this work has revitalized communities, created hundreds of jobs, and educated a generation of young people in Armenia and its diaspora to be better caretakers of the global environment. ATP’s fruit and nut trees generate thousands of pounds of food for local residents every year. With Corporation support, the ATP will continue to assist communities through educational programming, additional crop development, and help enhance a better and healthier environment.
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As a one-time only grant for core support of a rescue fund targeting Ukrainian researchers and their families
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
In partnership with the Polish and Ukrainian Academies of Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is funding and supporting the resettlement of Ukrainian scientists displaced by the armed conflict between the Ukraine and Russia. With Corporation support, the NAS will fund the placement of Ukrainian scientists and researchers within an institute affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences and provide them with up to six months of support in the form of stipends.
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For project support to disseminate stories from their unComission findings to help build towards the goal to prepare and retain 150,000 STEM teachers over the next decade
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Starting in 2010, 100Kin10 launched and grew a national network of diverse organizations committed to providing the country’s classrooms with 100,000 excellent STEM teachers in ten years. With 2021 marking the project’s tenth year and on track to reach this goal, the unCommission on STEM learning and opportunity was launched to hear, learn from, and uplift the lived experiences of students with STEM. Through continued support from the Corporation of unCommission, 100Kin10 will launch a dissemination campaign to build towards their goal for the next decade: to prepare and retain 150,000 STEM teachers, especially for schools experiencing the greatest STEM teacher shortages, creating the conditions for all students, with a particular focus on Black, Latinx, and Native American students, to thrive in STEM learning.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
GO Public Schools engages families, educators, and diverse, student-centered partners to ensure that California’s historically marginalized communities have access to equitable educational opportunities. Since its launch fourteen years ago, GO Public Schools has built a track record of success in advocacy campaign work, community leadership, and family support. They work to address the persistent bias in school systems that leave students underprepared for success in the rapidly evolving world, including post-secondary enrollment and persistence. With support from the Corporation, GO will expand its efforts to: (1) make student performance and educational outcomes accessible to families and decision-makers by creating easy to digest education reports and metrics, (2) increase postsecondary access for families with tools to plan for college and to access financial aid, (3) solidify reforms that will help BIPOC families support their child’s success in pursuing post-secondary degrees and decrease costs.
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As a challenge grant for core support of the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1985, the New York Public Library (NYPL) is the largest public library system in the United States, overseeing ninety-two libraries across New York City. It also houses a collection of more than 56 million items, including manuscripts, archives, rare books, maps, photographs, and other unique materials. In 2019, the NYPL opened the Center for Research in the Humanities to enable scholars and independent researchers to engage with the rare materials held within its archives through advanced study, writing, and collaborative programming. With Corporation support in the form of a challenge grant, the NYPL will name and endow the center after the Corporation’s most recent president, the late Vartan Gregorian, in honor of the transformative impact that Gregorian had on the library during his tenure as its president from 1981-1989.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
RISE Colorado is founded on the belief that families are crucial to student and school success. RISE Colorado works to educate, engage, and empower low-income families and families of color to RISE as change agents for educational equity in our public school system. Often low-income families and families of color do not feel welcomed in schools and are not yet prepared with the necessary mindsets, skills, and strategies to lead change within the system. Equally, education system leaders are not yet effective in working side-by-side with families to co-create solutions for increased student learning and achievement. In order to create a truly equitable education system, family, community, and education leaders within the educational ecosystem must develop the mindsets, skills, and strategies needed for greater collective impact. With support from the Corporation, RISE will deepen the implementation of its model that has been co-constructed with leaders and parents in the community. Through their organizing framework, families will continue to learn how to navigate the school system, gain skills and tools of community organizing, learn how to surface challenges, make an issue cut, and lead a campaign.
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For core support of the Heartland Fund, a funder collaborative working to strengthen civic engagement in rural communities
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
For more than forty years, rural America has been largely ignored in its struggles with growing systemic challenges, including lack of access to quality healthcare and education, persistent poverty, corporate disinvestment, infrastructure decline, environmental degradation, and political dysfunction. The inequities have been especially pronounced among rural communities of color. Launched in 2018 under the auspices of the Windward Fund, the Heartland Fund is a national funder collaborative dedicated to investing in rural civic engagement infrastructure. This entails building permanent civic engagement, issue advocacy, communications, and organizing capacity in rural areas of the United States, including in small cities and towns. With Corporation support, the Heartland Fund will continue to increase philanthropic investment in rural civic engagement and recalibrate the political narratives around power and issue-based organizing in rural communities.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite the majority of the American electorate being women and people of color, their voices and vantage points are often discounted in political news coverage. This is due in part to 73 percent of newspaper editors being men and 90 percent of them being white. Founded in 2020, the 19th is an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, and policy to ensure that everyone can be an equally empowered participant in American democracy. The 19th is building an inclusive news organization that faithfully captures the lived experiences of its diverse readers, as well as elevating the voices of women and LGBTQ+ people in regional news organizations across the country. With Corporation support, the 19th will continue to expand its newsroom and regional audiences as it works to facilitate social change through equity in journalism.
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For core support of the PBS NewsHour
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite widespread mistrust of the media among the American public, the PBS NewsHour remains a trusted news source for millions of Americans. According to the 2021 Erdos and Morgan Opinion Leaders Survey (a syndicated study of influential figures in business, government, public policy, education, media, and science), the NewsHour ranked the most objective and most credible news source, ahead of NBC Nightly News, the BBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. The evaluation was based on the NewsHour’s steadfastness in countering false narratives, elevating civil discourse, and implementing strict fact checking processes. With renewed Corporation support, the NewsHour will continue its coverage of international affairs, voting rights, immigration, and K-16 education, among other issues. It will maintain public trust through its high journalistic standards and work to navigate ever-evolving broadcast and digital platforms to reach new audiences.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
We know from abundant research that teacher quality is among the most important in-school factors in student achievement and that by raising the quality and prestige of the teaching profession, we will improve student outcomes. Given the pivotal role that teachers will play in how students recover from the disruption due to the pandemic, academically, as well as socio-emotionally, it is imperative that we listen to and amplify these voices from the front line – the voices students hear each day, the voices on the phone to families, and the voices speaking up for students needs within their school. Educators for Excellence (E4E) founded by public school teachers in 2010, is a growing movement of more than 34,000 educators united around a commitment to improving student learning and elevating the teaching profession. With a final grant of $500,000 from the Corporation, E4E teachers will work to meet this extraordinary moment and to ensure lasting change for students and communities who deserve equitable public-school systems. They will elevate teachers’ voices on recovery priorities across the field and within our chapter locations, building teacher power to change both policy and the public narrative, with a particular focus on how we can reimagine the teaching profession with teachers, and specifically through the collective power of teachers’ unions.
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For core support of The Starfish Institute
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
6 months
Description
The 100Kin10 partnership has brought significant national attention to the need to recruit and retain excellent STEM teachers at an unprecedented scale. 100Kin10 has been widely endorsed by leaders across sectors, and has mobilized over 300 diverse partners including non-profit organizations, universities, government entities, and corporations to make concrete commitments to increase the supply of STEM teachers, retain excellent STEM teachers, and build the movement. Over the past decade, with the support of the Corporation, 100Kin10 has surpassed its initial goal of preparing 100,000 STEM teachers. With continued support from the Corporation, 100Kin10 aims to apply the innovative and effective strategies developed and refined over the last decade to reach a new goal of preparing 150,000 new STEM teachers and retaining 150,000 STEM teachers by 2032, with a particular focus on schools serving majority Black, Latinx, and Native American students.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
8 months
Description
TalkingPoints unlocks the potential of low-income, underserved families to support their children’s learning so that these students can graduate from high school on time, go to college, and become part of an inclusive, diverse workforce in America. Through their multilingual engagement platform powered by two-way translated messages and personalized support, families and teachers are able to connect using human and artificial intelligence, eliminating language, time limitations, and know-how as barriers to the school and family connection. This renewal grant will provide general operating support to (a) enable TalkingPoints to strengthen and scale their evidence-based solution to support 5M+ educators, families, and students annually by June 2023 (b) expand on their strategic growth campaign with key investments in growth, research & development, thought leadership, and organizational capacity.
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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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Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
In communities across the country,parents and families are calling for fundamental changes to how policy and politicaldecisions about our children are made. Engaging these parents is crucial tobridging the gap between home and school and creating the outcomes our childrendeserve. The National Parents Union (NPU) is a network of parent organizationsand grassroots advocates across the country that work to improve the quality oflife for children and influence the education conversation. With Corporationfunding, NPU will implement its annual plan focusing on establishing a Centerfor Parent and Family Policy, ensuring all NPU Affiliates are trained in civicengagement and are using adequate tools for building a thriving democracy, andestablishing NPU as a leading media voice.
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For core support of InsideSchools
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
6 months
Description
For twenty years, InsideSchools has been the go-to source for over a million readers annually who want to better understand NYC public schools. An education project housed within the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School, InsideSchools provides independent insights on NYC schools, admissions resources, and data for public consumption all in one place. In rapid response to Covid-19, InsideSchools created InsideSchools+, an online community in which families from across the city share information, and tips, and get expert guidance. This grant from the Corporation will support InsideSchools during a critical phase of capacity building and planning by helping them work towards their goal of answering any question any NYC family has about its schools and doing so in a way that both amplifies families’ voices while creating new levers for parent leadership and advocacy.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 2001, the Center for Rural Strategies is a nonpartisan organization that works to improve rural communities by building strategic coalitions and distributing quality information with a rural perspective. The center provides policymakers, journalists, and policy advocates access to diverse, multi-layered stories rooted in rural America, and creates an environment in which rural Americans’ economic and social concerns are highlighted to policymakers and the public. With Corporation support, the center will continue to build civic-minded media infrastructure that can bridge partisan divides and educate rural voters on the importance of voting through high-quality media content, effective dissemination, and audience development.
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For core support of its Democracy Program
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1995 with funding from the Corporation, the Brennan Center for Justice is a nonpartisan policy institute that addresses weaknesses in American democracy through efforts to reform and revitalize the country’s democratic institutions. The center generates quality research and scholarship, advocates fresh solutions and policy proposals, and litigates cutting-edge cases alongside other national litigation groups. With Corporation support, the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program will amplify its combined influence as a think tank, legal advocacy group, and communications hub to help defend and expand voting rights, bolster election security, ensure fair representation in redistricting, reform the role of money in politics, and ensure an independent judiciary.
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For the Aspen Institute Congressional Program
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The Aspen Congressional Program is a nongovernmental, nonpartisan, educational series for members of Congress. Through its work, senators and representatives get the opportunity to delve into complex and critical foreign policy issues with international experts, explore policy options, and build relationships that are critical to finding solutions to today’s global challenges. With renewed support, the program will sponsor regular breakfasts with expert speakers for congressional members on timely international developments of relevance to U.S. foreign policy. The program will also host its annual international gathering for congressional members with foreign policy experts, scheduled for summer 2022.
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For general support and project support of the Online Learning Literacy Initiative to help close the digital divide
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Parents have a unique and critical role in improving our public schools. In communities where parents are connected to each other and deeply engaged, public schools tend to be more effective. Innovate Public Schools, a nonprofit whose mission is to build the power of parents and communities to demand and support the creation of world-class public schools, helps parents organize and advocate to successfully push for better schools in their communities and hold the system accountable to the needs of their children. This renewal grant will support Innovate Public School to continue building their National Organizing program, through which they train and support other education organizations to build their capacity to organize parents. This includes a seven-month Community Organizer Training Program (COTP) and three-day National Parent Leader Institutes (PLI). Through this renewal, Innovate also plans to continue developing and evolving the Online Learning Literacy Initiative (OLLI) pilot program, which allowed them to train hundreds of parents during the pandemic on digital literacy and how to access online resources to support their children’s learning at home.
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As a final core support grant to the Global Centre on the Responsibility to Protect
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Since the 2005 United Nations’ World Summit unanimously adopted the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), its principles have become an established, albeit at times controversial, international norm. R2P calls for a political commitment to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. However, some states continue to commit mass atrocities with uneven and controversial responses from the international community.The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (The Global Centre) seeks to increase the practical implementation of R2P through analyzing emerging mass atrocity situations, mobilizing appropriate internationalactors, and building networks and interest groups at the state and civil society levels. The Global Centre will pursue this objective with its high-level access to both the United Nations community and international human rights organizations that addressthis persistent global issue.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1988, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum studies and shares the stories of migrants and immigrants who settled in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The museum comprises two historic tenements that housed nearly 15,000 residents from twenty nations between 1863 and 2014. In recent years, the museum has developed a new exhibit exploring the relationships and different life experiences of Irish and Black residents of local tenement housing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum invested in a range of new digital and online programs to accompany its traditional on-site tours, which have been limited due to pandemic safety precautions. Over the coming years, the museum will undertake a major preservation and stabilization project to ensure it can safely offer on-site programs to future visitors. With Corporation support, the museum will continue to develop and offer online and on-site programs that educate the public about tenement life in New York City.
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As a one-time only grant for core support of the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
The City College of New York (CCNY) was founded in 1847 to make higher education available to all, regardless of income, religion, ethnicity or background. Today, three out of four CCNY students are first-generation college students. Eighty percent of its students are people of color, more than 50 percent are immigrants, and a vast majority are from low-income, working-class families. The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is CCNY’s largest unit, educating 4,000 of the college’s 16,000 students. In addition to offering quality social science education, the school emphasizes leadership, social justice, and public service. With Corporation support, the Colin Powell School will develop programming for its new Office of Student Success and launch a new Leadership Studies program. The Office of Student Success aims to deepen student support and broaden the reach of academic and co-curricular investments to help students finish their degrees with career starting jobs.
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As a one-time only core support grant for educational programming
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Opened in 1971, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the only official memorial to President John F. Kennedy in Washington, DC. It presents a year-round program of dance, drama, music, and opera from the United States and abroad. The Center’s national education programs provide arts experiences for people of all ages and abilities from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since its inception, The Kennedy Center has unlocked doors to arts learning for millions of young people, families, and teachers, and has been at the forefront of making arts education accessible to students. Over the next three years, the Kennedy Center will create pre-professional arts training and career development programs for emerging artists, and provide students with arts experiences and materials to support arts education and arts integration on a national scale.
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As a final grant for core support of its educational programming
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Established in 1937, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation works to promote appreciation of art, architecture, and other forms of visual culture. This is completed in part through its collection, conservation, and study of art of the past and present day. It leads the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (in development), and the flagship Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. With Corporation support, the foundation will launch a public series of quarterly salons that bring together leaders in architecture, design, and visual art to reimagine approaches to sustainability and cultural heritage preservation for the future of the planet. It will also partner with local schools of architecture and design to offer unique student programs and to foster a network of young scholars who can exchange ideas.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 2007, ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit news agency dedicated to exposing abuses of power and other unethical practices in order to preserve democracy and stimulate potential reforms. ProPublica’s strength lies in both the quality of its reporting staff and its extensive data mining and analysis capabilities that look to fill the gap in accountability that exists today and empower an engaged public to yield action. It focuses on systemic problems without simple, short-term solutions, adhering to nonpartisan and nonideological standards of journalism. With Corporation support, ProPublica will publish more investigative reporting, partner with organizations on local and national investigations, and lead trainings on best practices and innovations in data, engagement, and more.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Established In 1990, The New 42nd Street continues to fulfill its mission to make extraordinary performing arts part of everyone’s life, from the earliest years onward through the nonprofit’s signature projects. Its New Victory Theater is a space devoted to kids and families, and its education program is committed to meeting the need schools have for robust arts education programming. Indeed, many of the students who enter the New Victory Theater for a weekday school performance are experiencing their first time in a professional theater. With Corporation support, New 42 will continue to build back to pre-pandemic levels of service, expanding its educational outreach to more than 200 schools and continue its New 42 Youth Corps and New Victory LabWorks programs.
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For core support of its policy and advocacy programs
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
Founded in 1946, Church World Service (CWS) is an interfaith organization that develops sustainable programs and solutions to poverty, hunger, disaster, and displacement. It is also one of nine refugee resettlement agencies in the United States. With the global refugee crisis being exacerbated amidst war and global instability, CWS has been a leading advocate for structural reforms to the U.S. refugee resettlement system and for more inclusive refugee policies at the state level. CWS’ innovative policy, advocacy, and organizing programs support refugee and immigrant leadership networks across the country. With Corporation support, CWS will continue to grow and train its base of empowered refugee and immigrant leaders and advocate for pro-immigrant and pro-refugee policy solutions at the state and federal levels.
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As a one-time only grant for general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Established in 2004, Harlem Academy is an independent, nonprofit K-8 school committed to developing the academic potential of high-achieving, low-income children, in Harlem and the Bronx. Using rigorous academic curricula, electives, and advisory programs, Harlem Academy helps its students become critical thinkers and active members of their community. It works closely with students and families in secondary school placement and offers graduate support to ensure success in secondary school. Graduate supports include volunteer and internship opportunities, SAT/ACT preparation, networking events, and more. With Corporation support, Harlem Academy plans to increase student enrollment and further enrich its programming.
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For core support of the Civic Responsibility Project, which incubates Power the Polls, an initiative to recruit a new generation of poll workers
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
In 2020, the New Venture Fund’s Civic Responsibility Project launched Power the Polls, an initiative for recruiting poll workers in response to the nationwide poll worker shortage. Having a sustainable, diverse pool of available poll workers is necessary to ensure safe and fair access to the ballot box in American elections. Power the Polls manages a technology platform that helps people express interest in the role of poll workers and provides reliable information about requirements, applications, training, and compensation in more than 5,000 jurisdictions. With Corporation support, Power the Polls will work with election officials and other relevant partners, such as media groups, employers, nonprofits, and influencers, to encourage, assist, and train people to become poll workers.
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For core support of the KW Foundation
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded by actor and public figure Kerry Washington, the KW Foundation aims to empower members of the entertainment industry to help expand voting rights and support a more equitable democracy. In 2020, the foundation launched Influence Change, which leverages the reach of more than 250 celebrity artists to publicly encourage voter turnout and to combat disinformation campaigns that seek to weaken public trust in elections. In partnership with peer organizations in the field, it produces sophisticated messaging campaigns and develops effective tools to measure influencers’ impact and efficacy. With Corporation support, the KW Foundation will continue to support artists and influencers in promoting voter participation and pro-democracy messaging. It will also partner with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Constructive Communication to improve its ability to analyze social media engagement data and optimize programmatic impact. It is expected that this research will inform the wider nonpartisan voter engagement field.
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For core support to the Research Partnership for Professional Learning at New Venture Fund to conduct a multi-site study of the efficacy of curriculum-based professional learning
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
25 months
Description
As states and districts gradually adopt high-quality instructional materials, it has been seen that implementing these materials can be challenging without quality professional learning. Teachers need curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL) that is evidence-based and job-embedded to effectively use new instructional materials with integrity. However, this type of professional learning is not widely available. Most professional learning is disconnected from the curriculum or consists of one-time training and does not engage teachers deeply with the content and curriculum. With Corporation support, the Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) was launched to bring together professional learning organizations and researchers to study curriculum-based professional learning and identify the features that improve teachers’ practice leading to better student learning experiences and academic growth, focusing on historically marginalized students.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
12 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, OrganizationalLeadership and Change, building their learning experiences around a project of their own design that focuses on their professional or community interests. Currently, CU serves more than 250 students in Greater Providence, Newport, Philadelphia, and Chicago, with an average age of thirty-six. These students identify as African American (31 percent), Latinx (35 percent), White (16percent), two or more races (4 percent), or choose not to identify (7 percent).65 percent of students receive federal Pell Grants, though substantially more demonstrate financial need. Most CU students are parents. 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. 08, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The KnowledgeHouse’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: 1) the Karim Kharbouch Coding Fellowship and 2) the Innovation Fellowship. These two programs train young people and job seekers with the skills necessary to enter the digital workforce. Since 2014, TKH has trained more than 1,850 young adults, with over75% of participants successfully securing meaningful employment with salaries of more than $50,000. Corporation support will allow TKH to bolster these existing programs, which enhance job prospects for historically underestimated youth, and continued funding will strengthen TKH’s expansion efforts in Newark, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.
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For core support for Opportunity College
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2020, Opportunity College’s (OC) mission is to accelerate students’ into purpose-filled lives that lead to economic freedom. OC’s programming addresses a critical gap in the education-to-employment ecosystem: learn-to-earn opportunities where students can get good jobs and college degrees. In partnership with high schools, training programs, and universities, OC is building educational pathways that accelerate opportunities for youth into first solid jobs that will enhance their college and career success. Currently, OC operates two programs: a dual enrollment program for high school seniors and a career jumpstart program for recent high school graduates who are unemployed or underemployed. In addition, corporation support will focus on funding OC’s third CareerJumpstart pilot, a fifteen-week success skills program focused on upwardly mobile living-wage jobs that do not require a bachelor’s degree. These pilots have and will continue to significantly inform our overall degree program model, institutional operating model, and economic model design.
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For core support of its immigration program
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Immigration is simultaneously a foreign policy issue influenced by domestic policy, and a domestic policy issue that has foreign policy and national security implications. Over the last 30 years, immigration laws and policies have fallen out of sync with geopolitics and evolving economic and civil realities. Founded in 2004, the Truman Center for National Policy is a nationwide membership organization comprised of diverse leaders, many from national security and policy backgrounds, committed to shaping and advocating for smart national security solutions. The Truman Center believes that the United States’ national security interests are effectively served through advancing immigration policies that are humane and rules-based and increase the country’s economic competitiveness. With Corporation support, the Truman Center will conduct original research and help its network of national security scholars educate policymakers on the need for humane immigration reform.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Established in 2009, Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is a nonpartisan research organization that maps the opinions of Americans on a range of issues. Through its annual American Values Survey, its rapid response research, and its analyses of existing data, PRRI has established itself as a “go-to” organization for polling research and analyses on the role of religious identity in American life, for journalists, advocacy groups, and policymakers. Engaging more than 50,000 Americans per year, PRRI uniquely analyzes the ways in which people’s religious values can support or undermine American democracy and pluralistic ideals. With renewed Corporation support, PRRI will conduct extensive public opinion polling and research on how religious and moral commitments drive Americans’ attitudes on issues such as religious, racial, and ethnic pluralism; immigration reform; and the discourse around racial justice and white supremacy.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Established in 2005, Faith in Public Life (FPL) was founded as an organizing strategy center dedicated to amplifying the voices of faith leaders on a range of issues, including immigration and voting rights. FPL maximizes the faith community’s ability to impact public discourse by developing advocacy campaigns, building coalitions, and equipping faith leaders with communications tools to successfully engage their congregations, the public, and the media. Recently, FPL has been working to increase community resilience to disinformation and political polarization, as well as to increase determination to participate in the political process. It is also partnering with outside experts to equip faith leaders with de-escalation training to help mitigate voter intimidation, risk of violence, and other barriers at polling sites during elections. With renewed Corporation support, Faith in Public Life will help unify leaders from the faith community to defend voting rights, educate voters, and shape public narratives in support of a multiracial democracy.
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For core support of its Disaster Resilience Program
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Natural disasters disproportionately devastate low-income communities. In addition to being more likely to experience increased debt and credit delinquencies compared to wealthier people, low-income survivors are more likely to face issues around housing, insurance, and public benefits access. Since 2005, Equal Justice Works has deployed fellows across the country to provide critical legal assistance to individuals affected by hurricanes, tropical storms, oil spills and more. During the COVID-19 pandemic, fellows of its Disaster Resilience Program provided legal services to 545 individual clients, conducted 4,000 trainings and educational presentations, and secured more than $670,000 in economic benefits on behalf of clients in Texas and Florida. With Corporation support, Equal Justice Works will deploy Disaster Resilience Fellows in additional states to ensure that legal services are accessible and delivered equitably in the wake of crisis.
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For core support of the Bolder Advocacy program
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1979, the Alliance for Justice (AFJ) is a leading provider of resources to nonprofit organizations and foundations that are learning to navigate legal guidelines around advocacy. With expertise on lobbying rules and local, state, and federal tax laws, AFJ provides partners with technical assistance, customized trainings and webinars, and opportunities to develop innovative strategies and initiatives for advocacy campaigns. AFJ has provided such support to more than 100,000 nonprofit staff members and more than 10,000 nonprofit organizations over the past twenty years. With Corporation support, AFJ will launch a series of resources on lobbying, ballot measures, nonpartisan voter registration, campaign finance rules, and more. These resources will be accessible and relevant to grassroots organizations, foundations, and others. AFJ will partner with law schools and lawyers engaged in nonprofit practice to help expand the pipeline of attorneys with expertise in nonprofit law.
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For refining and disseminating the Compass model
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
College and career readiness requires more than academic knowledge—an extensive body of research shows that students’ socio-emotional skills are key to their lifelong success and well-being. However, despite the literature and the real-world urgency created by the COVID-19 pandemic, educators have few models and limited implementation strategies for how to integrate socio-emotional learning (SEL) into the academic experience. Valor Collegiate Academies (Valor) is a charter management organization operating three successful schools that meet this need through a comprehensive SEL model called Compass. With prior support from the Corporation, Valor launched its high school, created college and career programming, and built out the Compass model through twelfth grade. Valor also developed a training institute, Compass Camp, to spread its model to partner schools that to date has supported sixty-four schools serving over 30,000 students. Continued support will allow Valor to further diffuse the Compass model by deepening partnerships with existing partner schools, supporting new cohorts of diverse partner schools, and refining the tools needed for high-quality implementation of the Compass model in a variety of contexts.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
12 months
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Students in underserved communities are often left out of the national conversation about education policy and reform issues that continuously affect their lives. The students often seek opportunities to utilize their voices and leverage their civic leadership to advance social justice and racial equity in their communities. Our Turn, founded by a college student in 2009, allows students to play a significant role in developing public narratives around effective solutions for education equity. Our Turn coalitions help identify and prepare college students with the tools and strategies for successful grassroots organizing to advance educational reform in their communities. With continued support from the Corporation, Our Turn will continue to invest in young leaders of today and broader efforts that include consulting with other organizations and elevating youth solutions via local and national communications efforts.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
24 months
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The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundation Inc. is dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of international knowledge, understanding and humanitarian initiatives. Founded on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors, they seek to empower modern-day saviors to offer help and hope to those in urgent need of basic humanitarian aid anywhere in the world and to continue the cycle of giving internationally with a focus on the most destitute. The foundation strives to transform this experience into a global movement. Their work is shared with a broad international public through the annual Aurora Prize, the Aurora Dialogues and educational programs.
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For core support of the Systems Awareness Lab
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
27 months
Description
There is a renewed and urgent call for foundational change in education systems. Emerging communities of educators and policy makers are leading the response, working together in new ways to design more equitable, just, healthy, sustainable, and effective educational systems. With prior Corporation support the Systems Awareness Lab at MIT was launched with the goal of developing a capacity among educators and key stakeholders to approach these challenges and opportunities through a systems thinking orientation that attends holistically to the wellbeing and achievement of children and adults. Continued support will allow the Lab to establish multidisciplinary methods to document, measure, and analyze how such change processes appear and grow over time, including efforts to embody, support, and coordinate systems change work.
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For core support to the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA), formed in 2008 and hosted by the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), aims to improve the quantity and quality of research leaders in population and public health studies. To date, 228 early-career researchers, selected from faculty and research staff of eight consortium universities and four research centers, have benefitted from the four-year doctoral fellowship program. Out of these fellows, 125 have graduated and 58 of the graduates have benefitted from the CARTA post-doctoral opportunities. With this core support grant, CARTA will intensify its main activities: award doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships and organize skill-building workshops; institutionalize CARTA research capacity strengthening interventions in member universities; create research hubs within African public universities; and enhance scholarly engagement with society.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
Many schools struggle to implement family engagement interventions that enable students, teachers, and families to function as a learning system. Relationships between teacher, student, and families typically look like a line, connecting teachers with students and students with families, and have little impact on student learning. Founded in 1999, PowerMyLearning is a national nonprofit organization partnering with schools and districts that fosters a “triangle” of learning relationships between students, teachers, and families. Family Playlists is their interactive homework assignment tool and learning platform. With continued support from the Corporation, PowerMyLearning will continue to spread this triangle approach in schools and districts across the country. They plan to 1) roll out their early-grades Family Playlists in K-2 and 2) develop and test a district partnership model for their capacity-building programs which focus around three themes: socio-emotional learning, culturally relevant education, and learning recovery.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
Just as the broader social and economic environment is rapidly evolving, so must the way schools prepare young people for the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead. Education is evolving every day and innovation within America’s schools is happening faster than ever before. To help the field keep ahead of these changes, it is essential to provide accurate and accessible reporting of everything in education to policymakers, practitioners, and stakeholders. Since the nonprofit Editorial Projects in Education launched EdWeek in 1981, their experienced team of reporters and researchers has brought independent journalism to bear on issues that matter most in education. Today, the field’s leaders and stakeholders rely on EdWeek as an essential source for the news, information, analysis that can drive critical changes in policy and practice. Considered the nation’s “must read” news source in elementary and secondary education, EdWeek explore both the struggles and successes, the local nuances and national issues, and the day-to-day events and big-picture perspectives that impact the field. With continued support from the Corporation, EdWeek will carry on delivering vital coverage to the field through their regular beat reporting, video, and visual journalism, and other activities.
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For core support of University Innovation Alliance
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
The growing gaps in degree attainment in higher education between white students and students of color, and between low-income students and their more affluent peers, mirrors the distressing outcome disparities in K-12 education. Launched in 2014, the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is a leading national coalition of public research universities committed to increasing the number and diversity of college graduates in the United States. Over the past eight years, and recently with Corporation support, UIA has designed and scaled seven initiatives: predictive analytics, proactive advising, completion grants, college to career redesign, AI chatbots, Doctoral Research Fellows, and the Black Student Success Initiative. This grant will bolster UIA’s work by expanding their membership base, convening their network, launching collaborative initiatives, and diffusing learnings with the field.
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For core support of the Center for Inclusive Innovation
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
30 months
Description
Years of innovation have yielded proven school models and programs that have moved the needle on student achievement. However, these innovations have often been created for rather than with communities, hindering their sustainability in those communities that have been most underserved by our education system. Digital Promise directly addresses this challenge through its Center for Inclusive Innovation, which was launched with Corporation support two years ago and supports school districts in leading transformation by employing an equity-centered R&D approach. The current Corporation grant supports the implementation of a district-community partnership to support students experiencing mental health challenges in the context of racial trauma, as well as the Center’s early efforts to codify and share learnings. Continued support from the Corporation would build on those efforts by documenting, refining, and packaging the extensive cumulative learnings across the Center’s projects; demonstrating the promise of Inclusive Innovation through research; and broadening the Center’s field-building to scale the capacity for equity-centered R&D within the education ecosystem.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Over the past decade, there has been significant progress in building and implementing robust education data systems at the district, state, and federal levels. However, the wealth of data that has been collected through these systems is not always accessible to parents, educators, and policymakers who need it to guide their decision-making. Data Quality Campaign (DQC) offers a deeply informed, nonpartisan approach to addressing this challenge, working to ensure that all stakeholders have the information they need to make decisions that support student success. Since launching in 2005, DQC has become a leading and trusted voice in the field and remains the only national organization focused entirely on changing the role of data to improve education outcomes. Continued support from the Corporation will support DQC’s theory of action to make data work for students through two strands of work: 1) Building public understanding around the value of data to inform individual pathways 2) Advocating that states build trust in data through effective community engagement and communication.
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