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For documenting postdoctoral training models and convening regional stakeholders and postdoctoral fellows
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
39 months
Description
The Corporation’s Higher Education and Research in Africa (HERA) program has supported several models of postdoctoral opportunities for early-career African academics across a range of disciplines and higher education contexts over the last decade. Demonstrating the institutional and societal impact of post-PhD training programs is essential to gaining support from university and government leaders. Another challenge is that postdoctoral fellows often conduct research in silos within their disciplines. With renewed Corporation support, South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) will conduct case studies of post-PhD training programs, convene postdoctoral fellows across transdisciplinary networks, and link the project to NRF’s Science Granting Councils Initiative, which facilitates the development of research funding agencies in seventeen African countries.
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For dialogues on reducing nuclear risks
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
16 months
Description
The global nonproliferation regime, as well as the future of nuclear arms control, are under pressure from Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as modernization programs in all nine nuclear weapon possessor states. With renewed support, Pugwash will continue its efforts to leverage the expertise and connections of its members to foster dialogue between influential individuals and groups from around the world. These discussions aim to reduce misunderstandings and miscalculations in regions where nuclear risks are present, alleviate tensions, and identify and communicate policy options to mitigate those risks.
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For building the capacity of school districts and scaling impact through tool development and communications activities
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
Expanding access to learning experiences that are personalized, mastery-based, and student-centered requires building the local capacity and leadership necessary to scale and sustain them. Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) equips schools and districts to provide student-centered, personalized learning experiences that prepare students with the broad set of skills needed for long-term success. Since NGLC was founded in 2010, the organization has established itself as a prominent catalyst for innovative, student-centered schools and as a trusted partner to districts and communities seeking to implement new approaches. Corporation support over the last five years enabled NGLC to study school districts that successfully transformed learning experiences with positive outcomes for students over extended periods of time, culminating in NGLC’s ‘Transformation Design’ approach to educational systems change. Continued support will allow NGLC to launch the next phase of the Transformation Design work, which will include providing direct support for districts to implement this approach and expanding impact outside of NGLC’s network through tool development and dissemination.
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For humanitarian aid in the wake of the February 6, 2023, earthquake in the Middle East, specifically Syria, where the need is the greatest
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
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For core support of the Trust for Civic Life
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
36 months
Description
In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences published Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century, a report issued after conducting fifty listening sessions across the country to understand the factors that encourage and discourage people from engaging with their communities, especially in small towns and rural areas. In response to the report’s recommendations, the Trust for Civic Infrastructure was founded. Fiscally sponsored by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the trust is a donor collaborative and learning network that aims to strengthen civic infrastructure at the local level, increase social trust, and build civic agency. The trust’s programmatic areas consist of grantmaking, network building, learning, and field building. With Corporation support, the trust will create a pipeline of local funding, reach overlooked and underfunded geographic areas, especially in rural areas, and engage local communities in how to improve their civic infrastructure.
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For humanitarian aid in the wake of the February 6, 2023, earthquake in the Middle East, specifically Syria, where the need is the greatest
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
12 months
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For humanitarian aid in the wake of the February 6, 2023, earthquake in the Middle East, specifically Syria, where the need is the greatest
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
12 months
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For emergency relief efforts
Date
Dec. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Mar. 09, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2014, the Steve Fund is the nation’s leading organization focused on supporting the mental health and emotional well-being of young people of color as they transition from high school into higher education, throughout their higher education experience, and as they transition to the workforce. This is a period during which more than 70 percent of mental health challenges first present. Mounting research underscores the imperative for forceful, timely action at a large scale, as the consequences are lasting and show that poor mental health is a strong predictor of student attrition from college and lower academic performance. Corporation support will allow the Steve Fund to advance their strategic plan “refresh” by strengthening its infrastructure and expanding its capacity in order to both deepen its engagement with stakeholders and broaden its reach in order to help support the postsecondary success of young people of color at a pivotal time in their lives
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For general support
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1808, Abyssinian is one of the oldest African American Churches in the United States. Abyssinian embraces a rich history of worship, spiritual leadership, social activism and community service. With Corporation support, Abyssinian will continue with its educational programming for students and teachers, lectures, and community engagement activities.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
12 months
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As a one-time only grant for educational programming on the Historic Process of Immigration
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
24 months
Description
Save Ellis Island (SEI) supports the rehabilitation and preservation of the 29 mostly unrestored buildings comprising the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital Complex in New York Harbor. SEI provides educational programming about the important role the complex played in the history of immigration in the United States. Corporation funding will support SEI’s continuing efforts to train and provide financial assistance to educators who run the immensely popular Hard Hat Tours.SEI is also planning to expand their educational outreach program, Preserve NJ, which focuses on the historic preservation of buildings. Other programming includes developing a distance learning program for students who could not otherwise visit Ellis Island as well as expanding the Ellis Island Author Series which presents the works of authors related to immigration, immigrants, and Ellis Island.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1989, Reach Out and Read was established by a group of medical doctors to improve literacy in young children. It is a crucial source of high-quality inclusive, and diverse children’s books that pediatric clinicians share with their patients and families in combatting the public health crises of racism and poverty. Reach Out and Read has adopted a simple model of prescribing books and reading aloud as a means of fostering the language-rich interactions between parents and their young, pre-kindergarten children that stimulate early brain development. Reach Out and Read is a cost-effective, scalable model now serving 4.2 million young children and their families, delivering 7.8 million books through a nationwide network of almost 6,000 program sites each year, including one in four children living in poverty in this country. With Corporation support, Reach Out and Read will continue to strengthen its mission and impact including projects like their Beginning at Birth initiative giving a child an early start on social-emotional and cognitive growth, leading to a path that helps them to achieve their full potential.
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As a one-time only grant for support of educational programming
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
38 months
Description
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1895, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh now encompasses 19 locations. While books remain central to its core mission, the Library is a community-based organization which focuses on education, workforce and economic development, and neighborhood vitality. Moreover, across neighborhoods, age groups, demographics, platforms and time, the Library promotes literacy and supports a community that values patron-centered services, welcoming spaces, innovation, curiosity, tolerance, respect and the acquisition of knowledge. With Corporations support, librarians will continue their work in providing educational programs, services, and resources for children, teens and adults. This grant will also allow the Library to expand its collections of print and eBooks; strengthen existing community partnerships; promote opportunities for family engagement; and offer adult programming.
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For continued support for the expansion, implementation, and advancement of a comprehensive workforce collaborative framework
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
JobsFirstNYC (JobsFirst) was created in 2006 to serve as a neutral intermediary to address the workforce needs of out-of-school, out-of-work young adults in New York City. JobsFirst brings together community, corporate, organizational, and private and public resources to connect young adults to the economic life in New York City. Their mission is to create and advance new solutions that transform systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic mobility. They are deeply focused on the need to rebuild the economy post-COVID-19, and this will require a collaborative approach to transform how systems prepare rising generations for the future economy. Despite some bright spots, the systems designed to support young adults are fragmented, antiquated, and ill-equipped to answer this urgent call for change and lack a cohesive strategy. JobsFirst will expand on the recommendations in their policy paper, implement the change framework to build a people-driven change process infrastructure, and advance policy and practice recommendations around standardizing career readiness across NYC schools.
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For project support to create and launch a national expansion support model
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Build UP is an early-college workforce development model that provides low-income youth career-ready skills through paid apprenticeships with industry-aligned secondary and early postsecondary academic coursework leading them to become educated, credentialed, and empowered civic leaders, professionals, homeowners, and landlords. Throughout the full-time, year-round program, youth split their time between academic and career development settings, gaining knowledge directly applicable to paid apprenticeships in high-demand fields. Build UP’s student apprentices collaboratively rehab blighted abandoned homes and lots and relocated donated homes that would otherwise end up in landfills, creating affordable and sustainable options for achieving like-new, multi-unit homeownership. Support from the Corporation will allow Build UP to continue to pursue a financially sustainable model expansion by ensuring funding streams are effectively braided from state, regional, and local sources, including public, private, and philanthropic, to fully leverage all relevant funding opportunities.
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For emergency relief efforts toward Ukraine crisis
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
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For a project on the Oral Histories of U.S. Diplomacy in Afghanistan, 2001–2021
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The two decades of U.S. intervention in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021 mark an important period in American history. The voices of those who participated in it can provide valuable historical insights about America’s longest war. The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) is a professional, non-partisan organization focused on the collection of primary source material that can be used to extract useful lessons for academics and policymakers. Corporation support will allow ADST to collect, preserve, and share a minimum of 50 oral histories from American and Afghan staff working for the U.S. Department of State and/or Embassy Kabul during this twenty -year span. This material will be made available to the public and expert community on the ADST and Library of Congress websites and promoted through podcasts and other educational tools.
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For an awareness campaign on the 2018 missile false alarm in Hawaii
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
On January 13, 2018, a ballistic missile alert was falsely issued over television, radio, and cellphones in Hawaii. Games for Change Inc. created a Virtual Reality (VR) movie that for 38 minutes brings this story to life. “On the Morning You Wake” enables viewers to experience the event—just as 1.4 million people in Hawaii did. Through this grant, Games for Change would bring this VR experience to a number of global events, including UN meetings and Nobel Peace Prize. The goal is to activate audiences by presenting this challenging topic in a new, immersive and visually stunning way.
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For a general support award in honor of Jose Andres and the great work of World Central Kitchen
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
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As a final grant for core support of its education programs
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 2003, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center honors the 2,983 people killed in the September 11, 2001, and February 26, 1993, terrorist attacks, as well as those who risked their lives to save them. It has stood as a globally recognized symbol of healing, renewal, and hope in the aftermath of tragedy. The fund has virtual and in-person educational programs. One example is its annual 5K Run/Walk, a family-friendly event to raise awareness of the memorial’s mission, promote its educational programming, and sustain the museum’s ongoing operations. With Corporation support, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum will continue its mission of educating the public about the history and lessons learned from the September 11 and February 26 terrorist attacks. It will also resume its in-person 5K Run/Walk, which was postponed for the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For core support of its voting rights program
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
According to the United States Census Bureau, 63 million voting-eligible Americans are not registered to vote. A key factor in this statistic is that many states do not fully comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). This has resulted in the failure to bring millions of people into the political process, especially low-income people and communities of color. Furthermore, many states have been advancing bills that discourage student voting, restrict absentee voting, and remove registered voters from rolls, which further depresses voter participation. Since 2000, Demos has been promoting a positive voting agenda across the country. Through research, field investigations, lawsuits, and negotiations, Demos has helped millions of Americans obtain or regain access to voter services guaranteed under the NVRA. With Corporation support, Demos will continue to protect voting rights and expand voting access for all Americans.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the nation’s students, their families, and teachers has been and will continue to be the defining education story of the coming months and years. In a world unfortunately consumed by misinformation, there’s a need to enhance public understanding, and to achieve that we needed to deliver straightforward, precise, and in-depth reporting. With a five-year track record of leading a fact-based conversation about what was broken in American schools and about the innovators working to fix them, The 74, a nonprofit news organization mobilized to provide in-depth coverage of the pandemic deployed correspondents in five U.S. cities to present unique stories about the impact of the pandemic on education and how its disruption created disproportionate impacts in communities of color. With renewed support from the Corporation, The 74 will continue to build on the innovation in its newsroom operations and deepen the coverage of the pandemic and its impact on racial equity.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1945 to provide material relief to people in war-torn countries after World War II, CARE is an international humanitarian organization that now provides emergency relief and long-term development support to people in more than 100 countries around the world. In 2020 alone, CARE was able to provide direct humanitarian assistance to more than 74 million people. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, CARE delivered hygiene supplies and personal protective equipment, and conducted outreach and public education on disease prevention. CARE also administered critical resources to Afghan refugees and survivors of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti. With Corporation support, CARE will not only provide emergency aid to disaster-struck communities around the world, but also help countries develop emergency response plans and mitigate the effects of future crises.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
24 months
Description
Significantly increasing the number of adults in America earning postsecondary degrees and credentials requires comprehensive efforts to address a wide variety of barriers related to persistence in higher education. Complete College America (CCA) is a national nonprofit focused on ensuring that students from all backgrounds can earn a college degree or credential of value. Established in 2009, CCA works with thought leaders and experts from across the country through a forty-seven member Alliance, Fellows, and partners to recognize and address barriers to college completion, eliminate gaps in opportunity and achievement, and promote evidence-based and innovative practices. Continued Corporation support will allow CCA to continue its successful efforts in improving postsecondary education student outcomes by scaling evidence-based strategies.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
9 months
Description
The study of U.S. foreign policy has been traditionally limited in terms of diversity and perspectives of underrepresented communities. This has recently led to concerted efforts among funders and practitioners in the field to address this shortcoming through a variety of measures, including by cultivating a next generation of leaders embodying and embracing diversity. With a specific focus on China, Black China Caucus (BCC) identifies and amplifies Black professionals whose range of careers provide new and diverse perspectives about China. Corporation support will allow BCC to continue programs aimed at enhancing a community of over 170 professionals and future China hands through such initiatives as a professional directory, mentorship program, student pipeline program, and professional development opportunities. BBC’s programs will help deepen and expand the presence of Black China experts in the U.S. discourse and policymaking relevant to China.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1981, the New York City Fire Museum preserves the historic artifacts of the Fire Department of the City of New York, the roots of which can be traced back to the eighteenth century. The museum’s collections consist of more than 10,000 objects and an archive of photographs and books. In addition to preserving and honoring the history of firefighting in New York City, the museum also serves as an educational facility featuring programs developed by the Fire Department of New York’s Fire Safety Education Unit and other educational experts. The programs are offered to public and private school students, and the museum’s facilities are available for educational tours. With Corporation support, the museum will sustain its fire safety education program, launch new exhibitions, and resume programs that were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For core support of The Hechinger Report
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Nearly two years have passed since the start of the pandemic and in the months and years ahead, we anticipate a new sense of urgency about the gaps and solutions in our education system that need to be covered and elevated for the public. With many students still studying remotely from home, there is enormous fear that millions of children have lost crucial time in the arc of their educational development, whether they live in large urban centers such as New York City and Los Angeles or rural areas in the Mississippi Delta and the West. The Hechinger Report, a ten-year-old nonprofit, award-winning, independent news outlet focused on innovation and education has been covering the inequities that permeate the U.S. education system, which is projected to be more pronounced over the coming years due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. With support from the Corporation The Hechinger Report will strengthen coverage of inequality, achievement gaps, and solutions- and research-based reporting; bolstering their reporting of under-covered areas such as the West and the South; enhancing their engagement to a larger audience; and sustaining their investigative team, diversity initiatives, and in-house fundraising efforts.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
In partnership with Viacom, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation founded Get Schooled in 2010 to help young people thrive in high school, college, and early career jobs through a unique blend of digital content and personalized guidance. Previous Corporation support helped Get Schooled further develop and deploy their best-in-class digital programming to help youth access resonant, research-based resources to reach their education and career goals. Across their three journeys (college access, college persistence and first jobs) Get Schooled employs several key digital strategies to aid youth success: exceptional content shared across multiple platforms, 1:1 guidance, and engaging campaigns and contests. Continued Corporation support will allow Get Schooled to encourage tens of thousands of additional students from low-income families to seek and secure a postsecondary degree, as well as to find success in their first jobs.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
With the education sector in turmoil for much of 2020 and 2021, holding together and shoring up the fragile education journalism ecosystem has never been more essential. School as we know it — from teaching to testing to extracurriculars — has been profoundly disrupted, with troubling consequences often falling hardest on Black, Latinx and Native American students and their families. How the education sector will be changed over the long term remains unclear. Education journalists need to be the public’s guide to an uncertain future, providing real-time information and analysis to help students, parents and the broader public emerge from the pandemic and its aftermath. Founded in 1947, the Education Writers Association (EWA) has been working for nearly 75 years to strengthen the community of education writers and improve the quality of education coverage to better inform the public. EWA is a vibrant professional community of education journalists — reporters, editors, producers, and freelancers who work for online media, newspapers, radio and TV stations, and magazines. With renewed support from the Corporation. EWA will continue to provide its members access to high-quality resources to build their knowledge and skills, allow them to learn from one another, and remain inspired to do the work that is so essential to the future of our society.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
Authentic partnership between schools and families is critical for a child’s successful learning journey. Yet families, especially those in low-income communities, face barriers to collaborating with their child’s teacher, such as language, lack of internet, time constraints, and limiting mindsets. Family Engagement Lab (FEL), a nonprofit organization created in 2016, is on a mission to provide parents with information and guidance to support learning at home, especially for families from underserved communities. Their home-to-school connection tool FASTalk, is a cost-effective tool for teachers that sends curriculum-aligned learning activities to families by text message in their home language. With Corporation support, FEL will continue to identify and address the evolving needs of their audience during the pandemic and conduct studies of FASTalk’s impact on student outcomes as they expand. During the grant period, they aim to design and launch a rigorous study of FASTalk’s impact on student learning to identify and make strategic investments in FASTalk’s product and operations to support scaling, including reducing the cost per student and increasing the portion of expenses covered by earned revenue and other local funding.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The National Skills Coalition (NSC) was founded in 2000 to advocate for inclusive, high-quality career pathways for those typically left behind by our nation’s postsecondary system. Through expert analysis and technical assistance, broad-based organizing, targeted advocacy, and cutting-edge communications, NSC focuses on state and federal skills policies that address the needs of the broadest range of workers and industries, while also redressing the racial inequities created by the systems that determine who gets a chance to succeed. NSC is diverse and non-partisan, drawing from the ranks of business, labor, education, the public sector, and community advocates across a range of sectors. General support from the Corporation will allow NSC to focus on activities to 1. test and scale strategies for bringing workers’ voices directly into policy development and advocacy; 2. make college more feasible for working people; and 3. ensure federal workforce and higher education policies support racially equitable postsecondary education and training pathways.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
Despite frequent references to education as the “civil rights issue of our time,” there is a glaring disparity between past social justice movements and current education reform: the most visible leaders in education reform are not typically representative of the socio-economic or racial diversity of the populations that they serve. 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 231 fellows 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 core support of Scaling Student Success
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 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 the first year of their Reimagining CA Schools Innovation Pilot. The Pilot will engage districts in constructing a community-informed, forward-thinking, student-centered COVID-19 recovery strategy that centers the district’s Graduate Profile as a North Start for redefining student success and dismantling longstanding inequities that have limited opportunities and success of BIPOC students.
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For core support of Welcome.US, a national initiative to involve the business community, philanthropy, and the public in resettling Afghan refugees
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Launched to assist in the resettling of 100,000 Afghan refugees in the United States after the end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Welcome.US is a national initiative that is building sustainable infrastructure and public will for refugee resettlement. Welcome.US is collaborating with governments and trusted nonprofit organizations to develop co-sponsorship opportunities that enable private corporations and civic organizations to fill gaps in the existing resettlement pipeline. These partnerships are providing organizational and logistics support to overwhelmed resettlement agencies at the local level. Welcome.US is also developing technology platforms that will help resettled refugees to access material goods, information about jobs, services, and housing, and more. With Corporation support, Welcome.US will work closely with government agencies to identify gaps in the resettlement infrastructure and mobilize institutions in the private and social sectors to address them.
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For core support of Collaborative Student Success, including science-related work
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
9 months
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic, as well as our nation’s reckoning on race relations and the politicization of classroom curricula, have strained our education system nearly to the breaking point. To help mitigate the effects we need communications and advocacy approaches to meet the needs of the relevant education policies and politics. The Collaborative for Student Success, a leading strategist and central communications hub founded as a collaborative effort of eight foundations including the Corporation, leverages the capacity of state-based partners and provides direct support as needed to allies on the ground. With continued support from the Corporation, the Collaborative will raise awareness of examples of strategic investments in academic programs, interventions and supports that aid student achievement in math, ELA and science. By elevating highly rated materials, the Collaborative will encourage state and local adoption of policies that support the greater use of such material and the deliberate inclusion of meaningful professional development aligned to high-quality curriculum.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
To prevent the pandemic from deepening inequality for an entire generation of students, we must upskill parents to cultivate and sustain learning habits at home to support their children’s learning. Founded in 2011, Springboard Collaborative has helped close the literacy gap for nearly 60,000 students across twenty-two cities by facilitating collaborations between parents and teachers and equipping parents with the necessary resources to help them supplement their child’s daily educational experience. With support from the Corporation, Springboard Collaborative will continue to support families by 1) growing their reach in more regions than ever before, 2) developing and launching a strategic plan to guide the next four years of growth and innovation, and 3) Carrying out ongoing innovation and improvements to programs and technology.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
15 months
Description
Over the last 20 years, advancing education has moved from being perceived as the responsibility of educators and administrators to being perceived as a responsibility that is owned collectively by the community. While many approaches have sought to bring together diverse organizations and individuals to work together differently for educational change, these efforts have made only incremental improvements. Collective Change Lab (CCL), a new organization launched with support from the Corporation, aims to amplify the voices and wisdom of people from around the world to promote radical transformation in education and other social and environmental problem-solving areas. Continued support will allow CCL to further its work to elevate concrete examples of transformation change through research, communities of practice, leadership development, and changing the narrative.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The Education Trust (Ed Trust), founded in 1996, is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to closing opportunity gaps by expanding excellence and equity in education from preschool through college for students of color, students from immigrant families, students with disabilities, justice-impacted students, and those from low-income families from early childhood through college. Through research and advocacy, the organization builds and engages diverse communities that care about education equity to increase the political and public will to act on equity issues. Recognizing that a diverse educator workforce positively impacts all students’ academic and social-emotional outcomes, Ed Trust works with states, districts, and educators to identify ways to increase and retain educators of color in our public school system. With continued support from the Corporation, Ed Trust seeks to forward its mission to close opportunity gaps by developing state and district policy roadmaps to increase the diversity of the educator workforce in at least seven states. Furthermore, Ed Trust will build the capacity of current educators of color to aid in advocating for policy changes that better recruit, support, and retain them.
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As a one-time only grant for general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) is a critical resource in the New York City community. They provide families and educators access to creative science learning and have been committed to supporting the community in learning to use science, technology, engineering, and math to tackle complex 21st century challenges, such as climate change and COVID-19. NYSCI reopened on July 2 after being closed for more than a year and a half due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, two months later, on September 1, NYSCI was severely damaged by Hurricane Ida-related flooding, with areas of the museum having up to three feet of standing water and damage to newly built exhibits on the lower floor. They are facing a massive remediation and rebuilding effort that will only be partially funded through insurance and FEMA funds. This general support grant will allow NYSCI to repair and rebuild the damaged areas and restore and reopen their exhibits, to continue their mission of supporting the community in science learning.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
While the nation has made impressive strides toward greater high school completion, college and career readiness have not kept pace. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing challenges and created new obstacles for students on the cusp of their transition to postsecondary opportunities. PENCIL partners with business leaders to provide work-based learning (WBL) experiences that help prepare New York City students to succeed in today’s workforce. Corporation support has enabled PENCIL to play an important role in addressing COVID-related disruptions to these experiences through the Career Explorers Program, which provides WBL experiences designed to mirror real-world industry work decoupled from internship placements that are in short supply. 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 implement its core programs as well as build knowledge for the field to ensure that all young people have access to a fulfilling and economically sustaining career pathway.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
To address the diverse needs of students, many school districts have added staff to their classrooms to create co-teaching teams to improve student outcomes and reduce inequities. However, classrooms that have adopted this model have often failed to tap into the potential promise they hold. Co-teaching teams need to be coached on how to effectively maximize their collaborative capacity if they are to meet the needs of their students. Blue Engine has developed an evidence-based “team teaching” model that enables co-teacher teams, to accelerate learning for all students through year-long, job-embedded individual and group support for co-teachers and instructional coaches that are tailored to their specific context and goals. Through this final grant for general support, Blue Engine will implement their strategic plan to (a) drive impact through partnerships with schools and school systems; (b) analyze and strengthen their model effectiveness, and (c) build capacity and infrastructure that leads to a sustainable revenue model.
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For a project to integrate curriculum literacy and effective implementation of high-quality instructional materials into their teacher preparation program
Date
Dec. 08, 2022
Duration
18 months
Description
An overarching problem in teacher development is the disconnect between teacher preparation programs and teacher induction support during an educator’s first years in the classroom. This poses a problem as aspiring teachers lack the necessary guidance to bridge their theoretical coursework with instructional practice based in high-quality curricula. Urban Teachers’ program is clinically based and provides an initial year-long residency working with a mentor teacher, followed by three full years of coaching to novice teachers before licensure. To meet their district partners’ instructional needs, Urban Teachers need to develop and prepare teacher educators with curriculum literacy to effectively implement high-quality instructional materials. Through this grant, Urban Teachers will work in Baltimore City Schools and District of Columbia Public Schools to incorporate curriculum literacy into their coursework and clinical experiences to better prepare future teachers with instructional practices grounded in the use of high-quality curricula.
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For core support of NYC Speaks, a public engagement campaign to identify the policy priorities of diverse communities around New York City
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
In New York City, the public is often disengaged or excluded from political decision making. This has contributed to persistently low levels of satisfaction and trust in local governance. Fiscally sponsored by the Good Nation Foundation and supported by local and national foundations, NYC Speaks is a nonpartisan initiative designed to engage marginalized communities and empower them to inform the policy priorities of the new mayoral administration. NYC Speaks is partnering with civic and community-based organizations around the city to collect community-generated data and develop actionable, community-informed priorities, policies, and programs that the government can incorporate into its budget and decision making.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 2006, the Fair Elections Center (formerly the Fair Elections Legal Network) is a national, nonpartisan organization that is removing barriers to voter registration and voting for historically underrepresented communities. Using a diverse range of tools—including legislative and administrative advocacy, litigation, and technical assistance—the center works to improve election administration, protect voting rights, and provide legal expertise to state-level voter mobilization groups. In 2012, it launched the Campus Vote Project (CVP), a partnership with college administrations to promote student voting. CVP supports campuses to build voter registration, education, and mobilization programs targeting eligible student voters. With Corporation support, the Fair Elections Center will continue to defend Americans’ constitutional right to vote and reduce barriers to the ballot box.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Sep. 15, 2022
Duration
12 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 to address students’ social and emotional needs in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, including rebuilding the career awareness and exploration pipeline for first- and second-year high school students, supporting training providers and schools to help high school students earn industry-recognized credentials aligned to careers before high school graduation, providing rising seniors with meaningful work experience in internships aligned to employer needs through their flagship YouthForce Internship (YFI) program, and integrating soft skills into the previously described programs. Continued Corporation support will allow YouthForce to focus on core system change priorities to increase the impact on students and ensure their graduates’ long-term employment and economic success.
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