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Project Title
For core support of Seek Common Ground
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Seek Common Ground (SCG) serves independent state-and community-facing education advocacy efforts to promote coalition building that honors the power of local, authentic agenda-setting to drive sustainable educational excellence and equity. SCG coalitions seek to empower those most impacted by education policies and practices—students,families, and educators—with support from allies across a broad range of interests and identities. Renewed support from the Corporation will enable SCG to continue to support independent statewide and community-facing efforts in two critical ways: first, it will enable SCG to continue to incubate, support, and serve as a critical partner to advocates—to empower them to improve students’ educational prospects by supporting their core functions and provision of counsel, coaching, and connection. Second, using the American Rescue Plan-K-12 School Funding Action Accelerator as a unique model in the field: providing capacity, networking, and research to project participants as they develop impactful projects for their communities.
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For core support of YouthTruth
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Too often, the voices of students – those at the very center of our education system – are missing from the conversation about improving education outcomes and experiences.YouthTruth, a national survey project operated by the Center for Effective Philanthropy harnesses student and stakeholder feedback to help school leaders and education funders make better decisions that lead to better outcomes for students. Since its founding in 2009,YouthTruthhas surveyed over 1.5 million students and 204,000 family and staff members across 39 states. With further support from the Corporation, Youth Truth will continue to deepen their engagement with schools and districts in order to amplify the voices of students, family, and staff members; develop their products and services to support clients in interpreting and acting on feedback; and share what they are learning from students, family and staff members with the field to increase public understanding of the perspectives of these important stakeholders on issues of school experience and improvement.
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For core support of Learning Heroes
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
The pandemic, coupled with the social justice movement, has emphasized that to ensure nondominant students thrive socially and academically, families and educators need support around student success. Learning Heroes does precisely this by supporting parents and guardians as a child’s most effective education advocate. Through this renewal grant, Learning Heroes will share their actionable, research-based, parent-facing communications, tools, and resources throughout the year to help parents and teachers partner up in support of student success. They will equip teachers, school leaders, parent coordinators, and out-of-school time providers to team up with parents and guardians to deliver a holistic view of their children’s achievement and co-create a tailored learning plan. Finally, they will also continue to strengthen their internal operations capacity as they expand their technical assistance and fee-based product development workstreams over the next year.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Efforts to improve educational equity are threatened by a weakening civic infrastructure — the policies, laws, and organizations that enable informed participation in public policy. One element of civic infrastructure that has been overlooked in recent investments —undercut by market forces — is a strong local press. The resulting lack of information has prevented parents, students, and educators from participating meaningfully in educational change efforts which were especially apparent during the school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization works to address this problem by providing unbiased, quality information at a time when education news has neverbeenmorevital.WithrenewedsupportfromtheCorporation,Chalkbeatproposes to elevate the voices of parents, students, and educators in eight local markets and nationally; to undertake reporting that drives an informed civic debate about educational equity; to reach a deeper and wider national audience so they can grow their impact, and to makeChalkbeat’swork sustainable for the long term. Chalkbeatwill also focus on tracking the unprecedented $122 billion that is flowing into schools this year thanks to the American Recovery Plan.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
15 months
Description
GreatSchools’ trusted ratings and school information help parents find the right school for their families and improve their communities’ schools. Through this renewal grant,GreatSchoolsplans to engage parents from historically marginalized backgrounds and low-income families to give them information that helps them take actions for their child that will help inform systemic change. They will continue to widen their aperture on school quality with data acquired from partners and state agencies based on their School Quality Framework to help parents assess quality for their children. They will also create a more personalized, journey-based approach for their users to improve their understanding of a broader picture of school quality. Finally, they will help parents connect data and stories to their own lives and their potential impact on their children and education.
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For emergency relief efforts in Afghanistan.
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
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For emergency relief efforts in Afghanistan.
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
15 months
Description
Academic disparities in classroom experience and educational outcomes have long pre-existed the current circumstance of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Leadership Academy recognizes that the work of leading for equity in school systems is not an easy charge. Their mission is to develop, support, and empower district members to become culturally responsive leaders. They believe this is the key lever for creating positive change through leveraging the skills, knowledge, and beliefs to disrupt racial and economic inequities in the classroom. Through this renewal grant, The Leadership Academy will expand their professional learning and coaching supports and develop and disseminate resources to build leader capacity on culturally responsive instruction.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
6 months
Description
Rigorous academic standards are the foundation for improving student outcomes, and students deserve the opportunity to an education aligned to those standards.However, educators are often not given clear guidance on instructional priorities to improve academic success in their classrooms.Student Achievement Partners (SAP) supports excellent instruction and raises students’ academic successby developingstandards-aligned instructional resources in English language arts and mathand building partnerships with educators to support their understanding of these resources.Through this general support grant, SAP willcontinue to expand their services toa) provide district-level professional learning designers with curriculum-based professional learning tools and resources, b) communicate the importance of standards-aligned, grade level instruction and culturally relevant pedagogy, and c) provide free or low-cost, standards-aligned online professional learningopportunities.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
9 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 the 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. With continued support from the Corporation, DQC will make data work for students through two strands of work: 1) Building public understanding around the value of data to inform individual pathways for pre-k through workforce and 2) Advocating for those states to build trust in data through effective community engagement and communication.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Leaders need social and professional networks that can facilitate strong and sustaining connections, rapid transfer of information and ideas, and strategy sharing that can be put to use on the ground to support critical services, spark innovation, and sustain leaders working for positive change. That is the role the PIE Network is playing. With support from the Corporation, the PIE Network has been able to build a foundation that has been essential in today’s uncharted waters. The Network includes ninety-eight state and local advocacy organizations and twenty-eight national partners in thirty-three states and D.C.Continued support from the Corporation will enable the PIE Network to continue and improve their effort to help leaders adapt, and innovate; build skills; advance efforts to build public understanding and community engagement; focus on what’s working; paint new, compelling pictures of what’s possible; and scale up innovative and effective education programs, policy, and advocacy.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
The American education system has long-standing issues largely embedded in socio-economic and racial inequities. For our most vulnerable communities across the nation, education does not allow them the same opportunities as their wealthier counterparts. Research continuously shows that when families are well equipped with the information and support to advocate for their children’s education and build better relationships with decision-makers, student achievement improves. Launched in 2014 as an umbrella organization housed by Education Post, Brightbeam is a nonprofit network of education influencers demanding better education and a brighter future for every child. With support from the Corporation, Brightbeam will continue to expand its reach and equip its network of education activists and influencers with the knowledge, tools, and messaging they need to build constituencies and create demand for change.
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For emergency relief efforts in Haiti
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
The mission of The Knowledge House (TKH) 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 three innovative programs: 1) the Karim Kharbouch Coding Fellowship, 2) the Innovation Fellowship, and 3) the Bronx Digital Pipeline. The former two train young people and job seekers with the skills necessary to enter the digital workforce, and the Bronx Digital Pipeline fosters collaboration between training programs, higher education institutions, and employers in order to create a unified pipeline into the digital sector. Since 2014, TKH has trained more than 1,850 young adults, with over 75% of participants successfully securing meaningful employment with salaries of more than $55,000. Corporation support will allow TKH to enhance existing programs, and strengthen TKH’s expansion efforts in Newark, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.
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For core support for Opportunity College
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
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 both a good job and a college degree. In partnership with high schools, training programs, and universities, OC is building educational pathways that accelerate opportunity youth into strong first jobs that will enhance both 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. Corporation support will allow OC to deploy a fifteen-week success skills program focused on upwardly mobile living-wage jobs that don’t require a bachelor’s degree. Corporation support will focus on the development of an accredited 60-credit associate degree program, in which students explore their career interests; gain personal, professional, and industry-specific technical skills; and complete work-based learning experiences as part of a virtuous learning cycle with stackable credentials toward college completion.
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For core support for the annual Paris Peace Forum
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Since its launch in 2018, the Paris Peace Forum has grown into a hybrid multilateral organization convening heads of state and government, local and national elected representatives, regional and international institutions, and civil society organizations. Its programs foster innovation and public-private partnerships building peace, strengthening multilateralism, and advancing sustainable development goals.The first three Forums gathered 25,000 participants from more than 175 countries, 125 heads of state and government, 48 leaders of international organizations, and generated over 10,000 publications and media appearances.The fourth Forum in November 2021 addresses concrete challenges in health, peace and security, new technologies, and the environment.RenewedCorporation supportwill contribute to the Forum’s core operations.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
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, Organizational Leadership and Change, building their learning experiences around a project of their own design that focuses on their professional or community interests. Currently CU serves nearly 200 students in greater Providence and Newport aged seventeen through sixty-one, with an average age of thirty-four. These students identify as African American (27 percent), Latinx (40 percent), White (16 percent), two or more races (4 percent), or choose not to identify (13 percent). 60 percent of students receive federal Pell Grants, though substantially more demonstrate financial need. 77 percent of the class of 2020 were 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 core support of the Demetrios Papademetriou Young Scholars Program
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2001, the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is a leading research and policy institution dedicated to the study of migration around the world. MPI works to build political consensus through data-driven analyses, innovative policy ideas, and comparative perspectives to educate policymakers, leaders in civil society, the media, and the public. With Corporation support, MPI will launch the Demetrios Papademetriou Young Scholars Program to strengthen the technical and professional capacities of the next generation of migration scholars and immigrant integration advocates. It will build upon MPI’s internship program, which currently focuses on data analysis and co-authoring publications, and expand the scope of MPI’s offerings, including trainings on leadership and project management, communications, and networking.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
There is a growing understanding in the field that community organizing and parent advocacy are critical to achieving significant change in our education system. Parents have a unique and critical role in improving our public schools and research shows that in communities where parents are connected to each other and deeply engaged, public schools tend to be more effective. National Parents Union (NPU), a nonprofit organization founded in January 2020, supports parents across communities in the United States by ensuring families have a seat at the table and are offered the opportunity to speak on the decisions that impact their child’s education at the local and national level. Within their first year, NPU reached more than 15 million families and represented parent-led organizations in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. With support from the Corporation, NPU intends to continue to grow their network (to 25 million), fight on behalf of families everywhere but particularly those who are underrepresented in the policy conversation, and provide parents and families with resources, training, and support to advocate for their children.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
In a world facing multiple perils, the risks of nuclear war, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and nuclear terrorism remain among the gravest threats to international peace and security. The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) plays a key role in driving policy-relevant assessments, international engagements, and outreach to policymakers, the media, and the public on these issues. With renewed support, NTI will continue a set of comprehensive activities focusing on reducing threats from nuclear weapons, radiological materials, and other weapons of mass destruction, while also helping to expand global capacity for verification of nuclear weapons-related activities.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The conflict in Syriahas hada devastating and long-lasting impact on young people and the education sector. In 2013, the NGO Global Platform for Syrian Students wasestablishedwith the aim of designing and implementing an emergency scholarship program for Syrian students.In August 2020, the organization changed its name toGlobal Platform for Higher Education in Emergencies to reflect its broader mission.With funding from the Corporation and other sources, Global Platform will aim to expand its scholarship programs to reach an increasing number of beneficiaries,develop a rapid response funding mechanism, and promote multilateral action on sustaining higher education in emergencies.
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For core support to the University in Exile Consortium
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The decline of academic freedom is accelerating the displacement of scholars and faculty worldwide. The University in Exile Consortium was launched in 2018 todefend academic freedom and to foster intellectual connection among displaced scholars. The Consortium is an expanding group of 31 universities and colleges in the United States, Canada, Germany, Jordan, and South Africasupporting scholars in exile who have lost their professional and personal communities. With support from the Corporation, the network will continue to facilitates conferences, workshops, research collaborations, and other academic professional development opportunities.
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For core support to the African Leadership Centre
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Building on previous Corporation-funded work, the African Leadership Centre (ALC), which co-exists at King’s College London (King’s) and in Nairobi as an independent center, will continue its support of African-led peacebuilding research and training, grounded empirically on the continent. The ALC offers several programs, including a master’s degree and a joint Ph.D. program at King’s and the University of Pretoria. In 2017, the ALC launched a research agenda that focuses on critical topics at the nexus of peacebuilding and leadership with an emphasis on joining theory and practice. Research teams bring together senior and emerging scholars and practitioners to build knowledge across disciplines. ALC’s growing alumni network connects African universities and policy bodies to conduct high-quality field research and share results with an interested policymaking audience.
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As a final grant for core support of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The intensification of the Syrian crisis over the pasttenyears has haddevastating consequences for the Arab region. AsSyria became a focal point for competing geopolitical interests, parties to the conflict continueto commit human rights abuses andviolations of international law.The Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University is an academic center committed to to the study of human rights and the promotion of dialogue between scholars and practitioners throughlectures, conferences, and capacity building activities. With renewed Corporation support, this project will continue tomonitor conditions, raise awareness about human rights abuses, and recommend policy solutions to policy-makers in the United States, Europe, and elsewhereto enhance peace prospects in Syriathrough better informed and more effective mediation.
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For core support to American Diplomat Podcast
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Recent disinvestment in U.S. diplomacy institutions challenges the effectiveness of American foreign policy. Established in 1983, the American Academy of Diplomacy’s mission is to enhance public appreciation and support for U.S. diplomacy’s critical role in advancing the national interest. In pursuit of its goals, the Academy supports programs that help diplomats effectively respond to a world of growing global challenges, and increase public awareness of past achievements and failures, and future opportunities for U.S. diplomacy. The American Diplomat Podcast offers first-person storytelling from American diplomats who have contributed to newsworthy events overseas. Hosted by former ambassador, Pete Romero and writer, Laura Bennett, the conversations provide context, details, and definitions to the guests’ stories from behind-the-scenes of international diplomacy.
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For support of the Joyful Impact Accelerator project
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Since 2102 Building Impact has worked with social entrepreneurs, forward-thinking philanthropists, and change agents to catalyze systemic change around the most pressing social issues. The Joyful Impact Accelerator for funders was born out of both inspiration and frustration with philanthropy as a vehicle for transformative social change at this pivotal time for the field. The tension between the shortcomings of philanthropy and the sense of calling felt by many working in the field seems more pressing than ever in the last year, between the pandemic, the beginnings of a reckoning with systemic racism, increasing challenges of hyper-polarization, and threats to democracy. The Joyful Impact Accelerator is an opportunity for participants to join with fellow funders in a journey of personal and professional growth. It is offered to a carefully curated group of eight visionary, senior leaders in philanthropy. The program is customized to each participant’s particular leadership journey and interests; it also contains a core of shared learning around particular skills and techniques as well as a unifying peer-based experience in the form of a mastermind group.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
Description
Immigrants play a critical role in the American economy. They provide communities and industries with high-quality talent and field expertise, and they financially contribute to cities and states in critical need of investment. Founded in 2013, the American Business Immigration Coalition (ABIC) represents a growing and diverse set of businesses and business associations that are promoting pro-immigrant policies at the federal and state levels. With Corporation support, ABIC will expand its network of business leaders who can communicate to policymakers the importance of implementing an immigrant integration agenda that will make the United States more prosperous and economically competitive.
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For core support of its immigration program
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
Description
The United States’ immigration laws are outdated, unreflective of contemporary global challenges, and often misaligned with the country’s humanitarian values. In response, immigrant integration advocates are calling for systemic changes that provide workable solutions for immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers while also acknowledging the many factors driving migration and displacement. Since 2009, the Center for American Progress (CAP) has been using its research and policy expertise to educate policymakers on the harms of anti-immigrant policy and to help ground the national conversation in data and values. With Corporation support, CAP will continue to drive the immigration policy debate through research, analysis, and strategic collaboration with peers and other stakeholders.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2011, Seed Global Health providesfinancial and technical resources necessary to increase the quality and numbers of skilled health professionals who can deliver quality care and can train their successors, enabling continued improvements to their local health systems. Led by in-country staff and co-created with local partners, Seed Global Health strives to elevate issuesthat help support strong health professional education and practices that are responsive and not directive.Countries that meet the health needs of their populations are more likely to experience economic growth, enable transparency and faith in government, and foster government resiliency in the face of pandemics. With Corporation support, Seed Global health will continue with their COVID-19 response efforts, while also ensuring that essential training programs and health professional education remain uninterrupted.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Research institutions have expressed repeated concerns about the social and political consequences of mainstream news media being produced under newsrooms that lack diverse perspectives and staff. Indeed, while women and people of color comprise the majority of the American electorate, the media often discounts their voices and vantage points in political news coverage. This might be explained, in part, by the fact that 73 percent of newspaper editors are men and 90 percent of them are white. Launched in 2020, which is the centennial anniversary of the nineteenth amendment, 19thNews is a nonpartisan digital news organization that elevates women journalists and journalists of color. Its editorial priorities include immigration, education, caregiving, the environment, and racial injustice. With Corporation support, the 19thwill continue to expand its diverse newsroom and regional audiences as it aims to facilitate social change through equity in journalism.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1978, Human Rights First is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving human rights standards in the United States and around the world. Human Rights First advances research-based policies that strengthen the United States’ commitment to good governance and humanitarian protections, as well as provide legal and social services to asylum seekers and immigrant families in the United States. More recently, Human Rights First has been expanding its research and advocacy capacities on issues related to extremism and white supremacy and human rights abuses in the technology space. With Corporation support, Human Rights First will continue to assist victims of injustice (including refugees and asylum seekers), bring perpetrators of rights abuses to justice, and strengthen institutions dedicated to protecting universal human rights.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The civic health of the United States has been in decline for decades. The leading cause of the problem is a near absence of civic learning in the K-12 education system. In recent decades, an increasing number of Americans have disengaged from traditional civic and political institutions that had historically provided citizens with a personal connection to current and local events of the day, ensuring that they remained engaged and active. The result has been especially profound among youth, who are now less likely than their older counterparts to vote and are more likely to express distrust in government and the democratic system of government. Established in 2009, iCivics leads the CivXNow Coalition: a network of more than 150 influential members calling for a civic education revival in America. The coalition’s goal is to affect systemic policy change to make high quality and equitable civic education a centerpiece of modern education nationwide. With renewed Corporation support, iCivics will continue to coordinate educators, students, parents, academics, policymakers, and others advocating for state and federal policy changes that bring civics back into the K-12 public education curriculum.
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For emergency relief efforts in Haiti
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
College Advising Corps (CAC) works to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. CAC partners with colleges and universities throughout the country to build a network of recent college graduates who become “near-peer” advisers for high school students. As a result, advisers from CAC’s thirty-and-growing partner institutions are employed as full-time college advisers in high schools. During the 2019-20 school year, 829 CAC advisers served 240,000 students in 782 high schools throughout the United States. Support from the Corporation will strengthen CAC’s technology capacity building efforts and enable the organization to continue its efforts toward Goal 2025 to help one million high school students apply to and enroll in college. CAC will continue to build and implement a human-centered technology strategy.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Committed to innovation, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation collects, preserves, and interprets modern and contemporary art, and explores ideas across cultures through dynamic curatorial and educational initiatives and collaboration. With Corporation support, the Guggenheim Museum will, in a post-pandemic environment, serve its audiences with groundbreaking exhibitions, informative programming, a suite of engaging online resources, and access to the landmark Frank Lloyd Wright designed building. Moreover, they will continue to present projects that explore, reflect on, and tell the stories for a more just, inclusive, and sustainable society, including questions of racial justice, gender equality, socio-economic disparity, and the evolution of the American landscape.
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For core support of College Promise
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Since September 9, 2015, College Promise has promoted and led a nonpartisan, collaborative movement at the local and state levels to increase the quality and quantity of Promise programs across the nation. Today, College Promise supports 339 local Promise communities and 30 Promise states (including DC). College Promise’s mission is to help all Americans benefit from education, training, and student supports to meet their full potential. College Promise delivers its mission by connecting students to College Promise programs that provide scholarships for tuition, fees, and other college costs and student supports; increasing the quality and quantity of College Promise programs across the nation; and identifying, promoting, and scaling evidence-based research and policies that enable high-impact Promise practices, adoption, and replication in communities and states.
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For core support of the Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2017 with Corporation support, the Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues (EPI Center) delivers scientific evidence to policymakers and other stakeholders to inform decision making on a range of issues of national and global concern, including climate change, pollution, social inequalities, public health, renewable energy, and more. Housed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the EPI Center provides an independent, nonpartisan voice to contentious debates and helps policymakers across the political spectrum to incorporate scientific principles and expertise into their work. With renewed Corporation support, the EPI Center will continue to increase and entrench demand for quality scientific data in decision making by federal, state, and local governments, the judiciary, and others working in service to the public.
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As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2014, the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation is an organization committed to raising awareness about American citizens who have been kidnapped or wrongfully detained abroad. It advocates on the behalf of hostages and their families, as well as increase access to safety training and other critical resources for freelance journalists worldwide. With Corporation support, the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation will continue to educate the public about the international crisis of hostage-taking as it pushes the United States government to improve hostage policy and diplomatic engagement efforts around the issue. The organization will also furtherits efforts to enshrine safety training as an integral part of journalism education.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
Description
Sustained, nonpartisan voter engagement is essential to a healthy democracy. Established in 2004 with Corporation support, State Voices is a national organization that connects nonprofits that are working on a diverse range of issues and helps them engage in shared civic engagement campaigns. State Voices oversees twenty-three statewide civic engagement tables and enables nearly 1,000 state, local, and national affiliate organizations to collaborate on campaigns, strengthen each other’s policy impacts, and increase civic engagement overall. State Voices also supplies organizations with digital tools and trainings to further enhance their campaigns. With renewed Corporation support, State Voices will continue to grow its network and support shared efforts to increase civic and voter engagement.
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Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
Description
With the election of President Biden, the federal government has ushered in a new set of policies governing immigration. These actions represent a drastically different approach to immigration from the previous Administration. With the rapid changes to immigration policy, law enforcement leaders need support and guidance as they deal with the effects that these changes have in local immigrant communities across the country. Since 2007, the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) has been exploring the impact of immigration on law enforcement in the United States. Using its longstanding relationships with influential police executives, immigrant groups, and federal stakeholders, PERF has been monitoring the effects of federal policies on community policing, providing on-site assistance to police departments nationwide, and producing reports that have impacted both local and federal enforcement practices. With renewed Corporation support, PERF will use its network of law enforcement leaders and its research expertise to analyze and respond to immigration policies that affect the country’s police and the communities that they serve.
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Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Beginning in 2013 Columbia Global Reports (CGR) has been incubated by Columbia University and Columbia Journalism School as an independent press bringing analysis of underreported global issues to the public. CGR recently celebrated its fifth anniversary with more than 25 books published on topics ranging from politics to energy and health issues. Each book in the series is launched with events and podcast appearances. With Corporation support, CGR aims to increase its outreach and provide accessible coverage of current global trends.
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Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
Description
The United States Constitution mandates a full count of the populations of each state and the country every ten years. This data is used to reapportion seats for the U.S. House of Representatives and to direct more than $1.5 trillion in federal resources to the states. Housed at the New Venture Fund, the Census Equity Initiative is a partnership of national, state, and regional funders dedicated to implementing a fair and accurate census. In preparation for the 2020 Census, the initiative helped coordinate more than 100 national, state, and regional funders in pooling resources and coordinating strategies to support public education campaigns and mobilization efforts nationwide. With Corporation support, the initiative will continue to serve as a vehicle for strategic collaboration to reduce census-related funding redundancies, minimize time spent on fundraising, and increase national and state-based organizations’ capacity to address emerging challenges and opportunities related to the 2030 Census and the American Community Surveys.
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Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Nuclear security and nonproliferation challenges continue to test the leadership of the United States, its allies, and the global community. For three decades, the Arms Control Association (ACA) has played a key role as analyst, publisher, communicator, and convener on nuclear developments. With continued support from the Corporation, ACA will focus on building bipartisan understanding of nuclear weapons policy, including the future of current nuclear treaties, missile defense plans, options for reducing U.S.-Russia nuclear risks, and policies on nuclear testing and modernization. ACA will continue to produce publications and hold events to bring its research to the attention of policymakers, the media, and the public.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Studies have shown that positive childhood engagements, including reading aloud together, singing, sharing stories, and interactions with other children can both improve school readiness and mitigate the risk of developmental delays caused by adverse childhood experiences. Founded in 1989, Reach Out and Read works directly with pediatric medical providers to educate families about the lifelong benefits of reading aloud to their children every day. It now operates in more than 6,100 medical clinics across the country and serves 4.5 million children and their families. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has also developed a telehealth version of its model and has produced a range of additional online resources to supplement its core programming. With Corporation support, Reach Out and Read will reach more parents and caregivers and encourage them to establish routines that support positive parent-child interactions and set a strong foundation for a child’s life.
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As a one-time only grant for general support
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 2013, Conversations on the Green produces a podcast series and syndicated television program, Common Ground with Jane Whitney. Common Ground with Jane Whitney enables participants and nationally known issue experts to analyze and discuss complex issues relevant to Americans’ daily lives, including racism, social inequality, foreign policy, and more. With Corporation support, Conversations on the Green will expand its audiences and national reach, as it continues its goal of facilitating robust civic discourse that is accessible to the general public.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Dec. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1919, the Institute of International Education’s (IIE)mission is to help people and organizations leverage the power of international education to thrive in today’s interconnected world: advancing scholarship, building economies, and promotingaccess to opportunities.Their major programs include the Scholar Rescue Fund, Odyssey Scholarships, Emergency Student Fund, American Passport Project, and more. With Corporation support, IIE will continue to use their global network to support students, researchers, and educators around the world.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
While education innovation has yielded a variety of new school models, mostschool operatorslack the time and capacity necessary to simultaneously operate schools and undertake the research and development (R&D) work necessary to innovate and iterate upon those models. Transcend exists to address this need. Founded in 2015 with Corporation support,Transcendmakes two distinct contributions to its partners and to the field. First, they provide school communities across the country with iterative, research-backed, and community-driven design support so that they can continuously make significant shifts in their school models. Second,Transcendbuilds partners’ capacity for ongoing piloting,learning, and evolution, and shares tools and resources to support R&D efforts across the field. With Corporation support to date,Transcendhas partnered with 188 schools,servingover 256,000students, andhelped to develop and spread eight school models.Withrenewedsupport,Transcendwill continueto support school- and system-level changes.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Innovatorsacross the country have proven that it is possible to deliver high-quality learning experiences that support students’ diverse needs, strengths, and interests. However, these actors often operate in siloes, lacking the capacity to connect and achieve meaningful scale such that the most underserved students can benefit from these innovations. The Learning Accelerator (TLA) fills this gap, serving as an engine to connect and accelerate efforts and catalyzing national transformation through greater collaboration, coordination, and learning.With prior Corporation support, TLA has developed and led several large, cross-sector projects to produce open resources for the field and support widespread change. A recent example is the partnership that TLA has forged with Ariadne Labs, an innovative health care organizationin Boston.Together, theycreated tools and strategies to support education leaders in minimizing health risks while maximizing learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Continued support would position TLA to lead similar collaborative efforts.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
As a result of years of education innovation there has been a proliferation of new school models that prioritize elements that research tells us are essential to long-term growth: personalization, cultivation of student agency and intellectual curiosity, and real-world application of core skills. However, in a decentralized system, there is no way to mandate adoption of promising models. Instead, we must promote more holistic adoption by building demand and supporting policies that make this work easier to do. The Aurora Institute (Aurora) has been on the forefront of this work since 2003, helping to build the nascent field of personalized learning through policymaker education, practitioner networking, convenings, and the publication of seminal reports. Demand for Aurora’s work remains high, and program staff believe that Aurora is well-positioned to build upon past successes, maintaining its unique and vital role as field leader, capacity-builder, and trusted source.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
While district leaders and practitioners largely recognize the importance of socio-emotional learning (SEL) to academic and lifelong success, they often lack the resources and support to implement SEL in a comprehensive way. The Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy (Rennie), an organization that sits at the nexus of research, policy, and practice, developed the Excellence through Social Emotional Learning (exSEL) Network to build the capacity of district and school leaders to implement SEL.Over the last four years, Rennie has successfully supported thirty-two districts representing 100,000 students across Massachusetts integrate SEL as a district priority. Continued support will allow Rennie to serve as an SEL policy and practice hub by launching the next phase of the exSEL Network, which will include SEL design sprints for district and school leaders, partnering with Boston Public Schools to build adult capacity to deliver SEL in secondary schools, andapplying lessons learned from the exSEL Network to advance a robust policy agenda focused on holistic learning.
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