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For a project to expand the capacity of the Curriculum Matters Professional Learning Network
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
9 months
Description
School districts are beginning to experience the benefits of districtwide adoption of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL). Educators are seeing increased student engagement and positive academic gains, as well as restructuring their available time for meaningful collaboration with other educators and less time on curriculum development. StandardsWork aims to uplift these positive experiences to help influence policy and practice in school districts across the country. One way they do this is through the Curriculum Matters Professional Learning Network (PLN), a collaboration of district leaders that work together to tell their stories of the importance of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning through blogs, tweets, and webinars. Through this project, StandardsWork will a) increase their PLN communications capacity, b) generate online resources related to CBPL, c) advance key messages of CBPL through blogs and events, and d) continue to grow and diversify the PLN membership.
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For a project to continue the development of an English Language arts curriculum-based coaching program
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Research shows that traditional professional learning is not meeting the needs of teachers, nor significantly improving teacher effectiveness, as it does not provide educators with access to supportive and flexible curricula that help develop their craft and effectively implement high-quality instructional materials, while also addressing the complex needs of diverse learners. The New Teacher Center (NTC) has achieved significant impact in student learning gains and effective teacher practice by focusing on mentoring and instructional coaching. Through job-embedded, curriculum-based coaching and professional learning circles, NTC builds capacity and supports educators to ensure coherence and improve student outcomes. Through this renewal grant, NTC will continue to develop their English language arts coaching observation and feedback supports by a) developing a systems-level diagnostic assessment for curriculum-based professional learning and b) creating a suite of professional offerings based on Odell Education’s high school ELA curriculum.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
Many schools and systems do not have conditions in place to elevatethe type ofjob-embedded professional learning supports for teachers to practice and receive ongoing feedbackto improve theirinstructional approaches.Leading Educatorsaims to address this gap as theypartner with professional learning peers, system leaders, and teachers to create a suite of open education resources that guide high-quality curriculum adoptionand implementation, anti-racist policies and structures, and equitable teaching practices. Through thisgeneral supportgrant Leading Educatorswillimplement theirFY2021-2022 plantoa) innovate and advance the professional learning field, b) provide direct services totheirsystem partners, and c) use evidence to understand and improve their program impact.
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For a project to continue to integrate the use of high-quality instructional materials into teacher residency programs
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
High-quality instructional materials and curriculum are well-positioned to contribute to instructional change. However, many new teachers struggle to find instructional materials that are high-quality and aligned with new college and career-ready standards. The National Center for Teacher Residencies has launched and sustained teacher residency programs for the past ten years, improving the quality of new teachers for students in high-need schools and districts. This renewal grant will continue to build capacity and coherent learning experiences between teacher residency programs and school district partners that focus on coursework and clinical experiences that reinforce teachers’ mindsets about the use of high-quality instructional materials.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Currently education systems are experiencing a crisis in teacher education that critically affects how prepared studentsarefor success in scienceand mathand how prepared teachers are toteach them. With research showing that half of all teachers leave the profession within the first five years,andthisrate being highest for science and math positions, improved preparation of secondary science and math teachers in high-need districtsisa top priority. Trellis isa mentoring andinduction program that is content-specific, promotes an integrated long-term trajectory of six years for new science and math teachers and is supported by research in teacher retention. Through this renewal grant, Trellis will: a) strengthen existing district and teacher preparation partnerships, b) support a community of Teacher Scholars, c) support a community of Mentor Fellows, d) conduct formative evaluations of the program, and e) building the capacity of their partners.
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For codification and expansion of the Resilient Scholars Program, an evidence-based socio-emotional learning model for high school students
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
While the literature indicates a positive relationship between socio-emotional learning (SEL) and long-term life outcomes, SEL is too often treated as an add-on to academic instruction rather than as a central component of the learning experience, particularly at the high school level. The Urban Assembly (UA), a network of twenty-three public middle and high schools in New York City, created the Resilient Scholars Program (RSP) to ensure comprehensive implementation of SEL across a diversity of school contexts. With Corporation support, the UA has embedded RSP into fourteen of its schools as well as launched partnerships with four additional New York City schools and several districts across the country to spread RSP beyond the reach of its network. With continued Corporation support, the UA will strengthen the implementation, assessment, and sustainability of RSP in schools and districts, galvanize support for high-quality SEL among system and school leaders, and foster coalitions across school systems and community-based organizations to increase the coherence of SEL implementation across learning settings.
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For a project to design and facilitate professional learning for New York City high school Biology teachers to evaluate, pilot, and adopt new instructional materials designed for the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
There is a need to ensure adoption of and sustained effective use of high-quality science instructional materialsdesigned for the Next Generation Science Standards. However, these two activities are often approached separately. New Visions for Public Schools proposes to work with instructional leaders at the New York City Department of Education to develop an integrated professional learning model for curriculum evaluation, piloting, and ultimately adoption of their high-qualityBiology instructionalmaterials. They aim to build leadership buy-in and capacity of district instructional leaders to design andprovidethis type of professional learning in the future. Through this grant, New Visions will also sustain its current research partnership with Digital Promise to help answer questions about which elements of the professional learning model are most important to supporting curriculum evaluation, piloting, and adoption.
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For a project for the Center for Public Research Leadership's to develop a practitioner toolkit based on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model to support curriculum implementation efforts
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
15 months
Description
The use of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning are important components to accelerate learning in the classrooms. System leaders and educators must employ change management techniques to successfully integrate these strategies into their school system. The Concerns-Based Adoption Model, or CBAM, is a structured and proven approach to change management that provides tools and techniques to understand the change process at the individual level and inform professional learning interventions. The Columbia University Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) plans to collaborate with American Institutes for Research to develop and pilot a practitioner-facing CBAMtoolkit that supports systems and related providers of curriculum-based professional learning. Through this grant, CPRL will a) develop a practitioner toolkit based on CBAM focused on use of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning and b) work with an advisory group to pilot and provide feedback on the practitioner toolkit.
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For a project to continue to increase smart demand for high-quality science instructional materials, perform science market research, and expand science reviews into high school biology
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
Given the successful adoption of new science standards across the country,moststudents attend schools that aim to teach science in ways that reflect the innovations and vision of the Framework for K-12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Standards aligned instructional materials provide the best chance to move the implementation of the Framework and NGSS forward. Yet, the complex nature of all curricular innovations has resulted in confusion in the field on what is high-quality. This creates a need for an arbiter to carry out an independent third-party evaluation to help discern between high-quality NGSS instructional materials and those not in alignment with theNGSS.EdReportsis a national leader providing evidence-rich reviews of full-course curricula. The independent non-profit publishes freely available, educator-led reviews of materials claiming alignment to college and career ready standards.
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For the America in the World Consortium fellowship program
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The foreign policy community is in a moment of introspection. While U.S. foreign policy has always relied on a healthy ecosystem of intellectual innovation and debate, how foreign policy doctrine is formulated and who formulates itis shifting towards greater inclusivity and diversity of backgrounds, ideas, and approaches. At the same time, the economic impacts of COVID-19 are affecting the pipeline of policy-engaged doctoral and early-career researchers. The America in the World Consortium (AWC) links scholar-practitioners at three institutions—Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Texas—to provide mentorship, research support, and policy-engagement opportunities to an emerging generation of foreign policy scholars with an explicit goal of amplifying a range of perspectives and approaches on America’s role in the world.
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For continued expansion into New York City through partnerships with CUNY
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
While education has the potential to be the great equalizer, today, only 30% of our country’s 1.3 million first-generation or low-income college enrollees will land a strong job after graduation and be on a path to prosperity. And with the COVID-19 crisis and recession, now more than ever, college students from underrepresented backgrounds need to be prepared to compete for strong jobs. Graduating in a recession leads to large initial earnings losses and underemployment. Braven supports first generation, Pell eligible, and/or students of color from college to career by partnering with universities and employers to offer a two-part experience that begins with a credit-bearing college course followed by a post-course experience that lasts through graduation. Fellows emerge from Braven with the skills, confidence, experiences and networks they need to land a strong first job and get on a path to economic freedom. Corporation support will allow for Braven’s ongoing growth at Lehman College in FY21 and lay the groundwork for expansion to an additional CUNY college site in the 2021-2022 academic year.
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For support of the Partnership Advancing Youth Apprenticeship’s (PAYA) pathways to careers in education
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
New America, a national nonpartisan research and policy organization, launched the Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship in 2018 to restore the link between American education and economic mobility by better connecting, expanding, and strengthening the field of youth apprenticeship. PAYA’s next phase is critically important for elevating and addressing the needs of youth in a time of economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The nation is already seeing historic disruptions to the worlds of learning and work, and youth are more at risk than ever of disconnecting. The Corporation’s continued support will extend PAYA’s efforts to provide youth with structured, paid, supportive pathways into postsecondary education and work. In addition to serving the core activities of PAYA this project will support the continued development and facilitation of an educator pathway working group and focus group research to examine the experiences and expectations of youth apprentices and employers in education-related careers.
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For project support for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates joint Barnard College and American Museum of Natural History site
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
19 months
Description
The STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU) program, operating out of Vassar College since 2013 is designed to tackle: 1. The national shortage of high-quality STEM teachers, 2. The lack of opportunities for students from under-represented groups to participate in STEM enrichment activities during the summer, and 3. The need for meaningful professional development and leadership opportunities for STEM teachers. The TEU program has developed and tested a model of a summer STEM program that effectively addresses all of these issues. The model offers an opportunity for undergraduate STEM majors to explore and deepen their interest in teaching with a like-minded cohort of peers through an immersive experience that integrates a discipline-specific pedagogy course with a teaching practicum on STEM enrichment for predominantly high-need secondary students. Continued support will fund a TEU site, based in New York City, to be developed through a partnership between the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Barnard College.
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For continued support for the creation of a comprehensive workforce collaborative framework
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
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.JobsFirst is deeply focused on the need to rebuild the economy post-COVID-19. 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. With Corporation support, they will complete a comprehensive workforce system framework to realize systems change by creating: (1) a mapped understanding of the system, its parts, and stakeholders; (2) a clear articulation of the obstacles impeding change; (3) an inclusive plan to advance systems change.
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For training and placement of participants in economically mobile high demand cloud computing roles
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Many industries are in the process of outsourcing their entire computing power (store, manage, and process data) to cloud computing platforms which can reduce Information Technology costs significantly. This shift to cloud computing represents a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity for companies and high paying positions for individuals with skills in this field. However, there is a shortage of skilled workers that can support the massive migration and maintenance to cloud computing. Kura Labs bridges the gap between the existing and growing corporate need and the shortage of skilled workers by training high-performing under-resourced students and graduates from CUNY, private colleges and community based organizations (CBOs). These colleges and CBOs represent an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse pool of candidates that are facing additional challenges due to the COVID-19 crisis. Corporation support will help Kura Labs continue to engage employers and colleges to train and connect highly talented and diverse students to fill current staffing needs that exist within Cloud Computing.
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For support to address the digital divide and postsecondary access gaps affecting 11th and 12th graders living in public housing
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
EveryoneOn works to create social and economic opportunity by connecting low-income families to affordable internet service and computers, and delivering digital skills trainings. Since 2012 EveryoneOn has connected over 890,000 people to high-speed internet, deployed thousands of devices, and facilitated hundreds of digital trainings across the nation for the most vulnerable among us. The current pandemic exacerbates the negative impacts of the existing digital divide, namely the lack of high-speed internet at home and a reliable internet connection, andaccess to resources and support to prepare for postsecondary education on low-income students. Corporation support will allow the expansion of theirBridges-to-Tech program which builds pathways to digital resilience and equity, college access, and career exploration and readiness for low-income high school students (11th and 12th graders) and adults. The expansion of Bridges-to-Tech will introduce professional certificates in multiple tech-based fields to 11th and 12th grade students and adults in Detroit, Los Angeles, and Jersey City.
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For capacity building efforts to improve postsecondary advisement to include multiple pathways and persistence
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Student Leadership Network (SLN) supports young people from diverse underserved communities to access educational opportunities that prepare them to lead successful lives. SLN’s CollegeBound Initiative (CBI) program boasts nearly two decades of successful college access program provision, having supported nearly 19,000 young adults to enroll in college. Corporation support will allow SLN to build on their Alumni Engagement Team’s year of capacity building and programming, to further develop SLN’s alumni engagement strategy both generally and in response to COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on their alumni whose postsecondary momentum has been upended. Proposed activities include strengthening collaboration between the Alumni Engagement Department and the CBI team and partner organizations, launching an online tool for alumni communication, analyzing and expanding partnerships, refining current programming, and piloting new initiatives.
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For continued support of the enhanced Freshman Year for Free program, designed to keep high school seniors on a college track in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Modern States Education Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to making college more affordable and accessible, is undertaking an educational initiative in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The enhanced Freshman Year for Free program enables New York City students supported by several existing Education Program grantees to take online freshman-level courses taught by renowned college professors from Ivy League and selective colleges. The freshman-level courses can lead to college credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities, including CUNY and SUNY, and enable students and their families to save up to 25 percent of tuition for a four-year college degree. To offer additional support, teachers at each partner school/grantee site will serve as paid tutors and mentors, checking in with every student on a weekly basis, available to answer questions during “office hours,” similar to those held by Teaching Assistants’ on a traditional college campus. All aspects of the program will be free for students, including free online textbooks, quiz questions, and a free practice CLEP exam provided by the College Board.
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For the Center for Public Research and Leadership to study the role of high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
High-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning have supported students, families, teachers, schools, and school systems advance student learning through this unprecedented time. The Columbia University Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) will study the role that these materials and adult learnings have had in addressing COVID-induced learning loss and how to emerge from the pandemic with a more equitable education system. The report will recommend changes in policy and practice informed by the advantages of utilizing high-quality instructional materials and curriculum-based professional learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, and will include at least four illustrative case studies that make these recommendations clear and concrete for school systems around the country. The grantee will also engage with an external communications firm to develop and execute a dissemination plan and conduct a mainstream and social media campaign about the findings from the report.
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As a final grant for support of four fellowships for immigrant journalists
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1907, MacDowell (formerly MacDowell Colony) is one of the original centers of creative ideas, artistic experimentation, and collaboration in America. It is the first multidisciplinary artist residency program in the United State committed to diversity and is a leader in removing barriers for artists to pursue their work and careers. Its Art of Journalism Initiative, launched in 2015 and supported by the Corporation 2019 – 2020, will soon raise enough funds to permanently endow 10 residencies and project stipends for long form journalists each year. In the meantime, with Corporation support, MacDowell will provide fellowships for fouroutstanding immigrant journalists over two years access to private studio space and library, meals, community engagement in local schools and public spaces, and opportunities for artistic exchange and collaboration with their peers.
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For support of an initiative coordinating national, state, and local level grantmaking efforts
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
While public health and economic responses to the COVID-19 pandemic are necessarily the first priorities for the Biden Administration, it is critical that policy solutions be inclusive of immigrant communities, which have been disproportionately impacted. Community-based organizations are on the frontlines ofhelping immigrantsthrough the process of healing, pursuing new avenues for immigration relief, and accessing essential services in the face of the ongoing pandemic. Established in 2012, Delivering on the Dream (DOTD) is a national project housed at Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees that organizes local, state, and regional funders into collaboratives that collectively invest in localized strategies that support, empower, and advance justice for immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. The twenty-seven collaboratives across twenty-one states that comprise the DOTD network fund a variety of approaches ranging from education and outreach to legal services, advocacy, and civic engagement. With renewed Corporation support, DOTD will leverage national funding and organize local philanthropy into a powerful national network to support local immigrant communities.
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To develop better functionality on a microsite that will inform the field around postsecondary transitions amidst the COVID-19 crisis
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
6 months
Description
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an uncomfortable truth: instead of developing a coherent ecosystem to guide students from high school into careers, our postsecondary transitions space currently relies too much on students’ resiliency to make it from high school through postsecondary education and into a secure, meaningful career. Bellwether Education Partners proposes a body of work that starts with deeply listening to current high school students and recent alumni and their families about their needs, choices and trade-offs. They then plan to conduct a landscape analysis across several cities to determine interventions that meet students’ needs. This grant will support the development of a microsite to share the landscape assessment, survey findings, case studies of “bright spots,” and a series of tools and guidance for policymakers and district and postsecondary leaders. This body of research will help decision-makers replicate and scale promising practices in ways that bring student voice to the forefront of program design and develop more coherent transitions between programs and systems.
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For support of college access and success initiatives in New York City
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
A postsecondary credential has become increasingly vital to an individual’s ability to secure employment, yet resources to support students’ college access and success are insufficient. College Possible supports low-income high school and college students on the path to and through college with research-based curricula and near-peer coaching.College Possible participates in the Corporation’s College Advising Partnership (CAP), which aims to address the persistent gap in degree attainment between high- and low-income students,and will be a key stakeholder audience of the Corporation’s Focus NYC initiative.Prior grants have enabledCollege Possible tobring itsCatalyze program to New York City through a partnership withVaughn College, serving over 300 studentseach year, and to explore opportunities toserve high school students in New York City.Continuedsupport will enable College Possible to continue participating in CAP andto provide personalized coaching support to 300 high school graduates on their paths to and through college.
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For support of a national citizenship campaign
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Naturalization is a foundational component of immigrant integration. It brings significant social, economic, and civic benefits not only to immigrants and their families, but also to their communities, their states, and the country as a whole. In recent years, the federal government has implemented more stringent vetting procedures, limited eligibility for fee waivers, and worked to increase overall application fees, with the goal of deterring naturalization. Since 2011, the New Americans Campaign (NAC) has been funding and building the capacity of local nonprofits offering affordable direct immigration services. Fiscally sponsored by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the NAC, and its more than 200 local and national partners, have completed more than 500,000 naturalization applications and 169,000 fee waivers for immigrants, to date. Recently, the NAC has become a leading advocate for more inclusive naturalization policies. With Corporation support, the NAC will continue its efforts to educate immigrants about the importance of naturalization, strengthen the capacities of local and national organizations that provide legal services to immigrants, and advocate for equity-based naturalization policy reforms.
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For non-resident fellowships across Quincy Institute's program areas
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past three decades, the United States has increasingly deployed its military in pursuit of foreign policy objectives resulting inprotracted engagementinconflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. The Quincy Institute (QI) aims toopen the space for a national debate aboutU.S. national security and foreign policywith greater emphasis on alternative approaches to achieving policy objectives. With Corporation support, the QI willexpand itsNon-Resident Fellows program with a variety of activities by QI staff toamplify the fellows’ work and make themvisible and influential participants in the local and national debate on U.S. foreign policy. DEI considerations will be a significantcomponent in selecting the fellows.
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For expanding diversity in the field of international studies
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Global issues demand a variety of perspectives,but the current field of international peace and security does not adequatelyreflect the diversity of American society. Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) was founded by Ambassador Bonnie Jenkins in 2017 to cultivate a strong voice and network for its members, create spaces for dialogue, and contribute to policy formation and implementation. Through mentorship, networking, and partnerships, WCAPS supports leadership and professional development opportunities for women of color working on peace, security, and conflict transformation.
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For a joint Eurasia Group and Carnegie Corporation of New York forum on an international relations issue
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
3 months
Description
The linkages between U.S. foreign and domestic policies are not often obvious or easily understood. In partnership with Eurasia Group and Carnegie Corporation of New York, GZERO Media will produce a live and interactive livestream program focused on the interplay between U.S. domestic concerns and global engagement. The 90-minute program will feature experts and newsmakers and will entail “mythbuster”polls, panel discussions, interviews with influential figures, and engagement with the audience to challenge assumptions, air varied points of view, and highlight the interplay between U.S. domestic and foreign policies. Eurasia Group’s GZERO Media is a publisher and multimedia production firm dedicated to helping people make sense of global politics without ideology or agenda. GZEROhas produced several similarlivestream events with other organizations on a variety of topics.
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As a final grant for helping college students know the world and combat misinformation
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
Launched in 2016, DailyChatter is an international, nonpartisan daily newspaper provided free of charge to more than 10,500 students and faculty at more than 180 colleges and universities in 30 countries. This free daily provides access to those who would otherwise have limited financial resources to obtain high quality news and who have few options for dealing with misinformation. With Corporation support, the DailyChatter will continue offer free subscriptions to college students inculcating what is hoped will be a lifelong curiosity about other nations and the important political and social issues facing them. The DailyChatter is also a useful resource to students who are learning English as a second language.
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For partnering with Inside HigherEd to serve as the broadcast partner for University Innovation Alliance web diffusion shows
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
For higher education to improve and continue to innovate approaches to serving vulnerable students, thereby increasing completion rates, the sector needs faster diffusion of ideas, insights, and wisdom. This project aims to significantly expand dissemination of University of Innovation Alliance’s (UIA)work through enabling a partnership with Inside Higher Ed to serve as the broadcast partner for UIA web diffusion shows.UIA’s high value content and spotlight on the best ideas and innovators will reach millions of readers.As a result, the narrative in higher education will be elevated to shift the values of the sector to collaboration, service, and completion for all students.This project will also expand UIA’s overall impact on the higher education sector, serving to raise the organization’s profile, widely promote its work, and help to deepen its engagement with additional like-minded institutions.
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For a web-based repository of translated open-source material on China
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
China’s growing role in shaping economic, political, social, and security developments in Asia and beyond has profound implications for global peace and stability.The Open Source Project (OSP) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies responds to the paucity of translated open source material on China, which, despite increasing demand, has been severely diminished since the end of the Cold War. OSP involves an online, interactive digital platform that utilizes previously untranslated primary source material to drive in-depth discussions and debates on strategic topics relating to U.S.-China relations and China’s rise more broadly. Aimed at scholars, analysts, journalists, and policymakers, the project will involve regular collaborations on topic selection, analysis, and workshop participation with other China-related projects at CSIS and elsewhere.
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For the development of a model curriculum and other related support for the Educating for Our Future multiracial leadership program
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
The Norman C. Francis Leadership Institute (NCFLI) is committed to developing a new generation of multiracial leaders and expanding their capacity to become socially active, economically empowered, globally engaged, and policy-educated social change agents.Since 2012 NCFLI has convened young, successful professionals from business, non-profit and government organizations using the proven, innovative tools and frameworks of “Adaptive Leadership,” developed by faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. Support from the Corporation will allow the creation of a curriculum for an innovative leadership development program for individuals from the education, private and government sectors. These participants will develop and utilize leadership skills to address problems faced by the emerging New Orleans School System.
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For support to incorporate a racial equity lens into socio-emotional learning tools and resources
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
9 months
Description
While district leaders and practitioners largely recognize the importance of socio-emotional learning (SEL) to academic and lifelong success, they often lack thetools needed to implement SEL in a comprehensive and equitable way. Transforming Education (TransformEd) partners with districts, schools, and community-based organizations serving over one million students across the country to effectively integrate SEL into the learning experience.TransformEdalso develops and disseminates open-source resources that reach educators across the world. Given this wide reach,TransformEdis planning to participate in a comprehensive equity training process. With Corporationsupport,TransformEdwill complete three equity design cycles and receive coaching from Equity Meets Design to ensure that its direct service approach and resources are culturally relevant and contribute to equitable outcomes for students.
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For the Annenberg Institute for School Reform to support a six-organization Research Partnership for Professional Learning in developing a shared learning agenda focused on teacher professional learning
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
10 months
Description
The newly organized Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) is a collaboration of six professional learning organizations (Teaching Lab, Instruction Partners, Leading Educators, TNTP, Achievement Network and UnboundEd) and researchers to advance field-wide learnings by generating a stronger knowledge base around best practices in teacher professional learning and putting this knowledge into practice across the nation. Researchers at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University will play a critical role in leading and managing the majority of RPPL’s foundational work and enabling the group to establish cross-organizational relationships and practices. Through this grant, RPPL will develop and advance a common research agenda through: a) finalizing common measures to use across organizations; b) conducting pilot A/B testing; andc)identifying ways to build strong district-researcher-non-profit partnerships to advance long-term research and development work in teacher professional learning.
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For support of the national television program, GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
Description
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer seeks to promote awareness and understanding of geopolitical, security, and humanitarian developments threatening global stability. The show is based on a premise that many of today’s global trends present obstacles in addressing major challenges of climate change, data privacy, nuclear proliferation, migration, health pandemics, and others. GZERO World aims to educate and inform the public about international issues by offering fresh and non-ideological conversations with informed guests from around the world. Renewed Corporation support will contribute to the production of the series.
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For a final grant to the Partnership of the States project on teacher micro-credentials
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Micro-credentials (MCs) continue to emerge as a high-potential vehicle for delivering effective teacher professional learning and developing, recognizing, and retaining strong teachers. Done well, MCs provide teachers with the opportunity to learn, demonstrate competencies, and earn recognition for their skills. Yet, for the potential of MCs to be realized, they must be integrated within a high-quality system of teacher professional learning and operate within consistent standards and policies. Additional support from the Corporation will allow digiLEARN to build on their successful North Carolina Partnership for Micro-Credentials to create an expanded partnership of two to three additional states working together to (a) develop consistent standards for high-quality MCs and (b) provide effective models for state-recognized systems of competency-based MCs to share with other states.
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For support of the Phoenix project
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
6 months
Description
America’s talented teachers are uniquely positioned to understand the intersection of student needs, the effects of policy decisions on schools and students, and the importance of connections to parents and to the communities in which students live. They are also trusted by their peers, policymakers and the public. Teacher leaders who are well-informed, persuasive and prepared to lead can become compelling communicators and agents of change for the future of the education system. However, there are not always strong supports built into schools or clear pathways in the teaching profession to enable teachers to play this role. Since its founding in 2009, Teach Plus has set out to engage and elevate teachers to lead change in school, district, state and national education systems and policies. With support from the Corporation, Teach Plus will launch The Phoenix Project: Reimagining Teaching and Learning, designed to engage teachers, families, students, and ultimately, policymakers in support of a reimagined educational system that is high quality and more equitable than ever before. By using design thinking, Teach Plus will engage the expertise of educators to build a vision that is more effective and responsive to community needs.
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For continued support of the Back to Work project
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
6 months
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The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. has not only created a public health crisis, but also an economic unemployment and education crisis that threatens to undermine near-term and long-term livelihoods for millions of Americans from all backgrounds. With prior Corporation support, America Achieves launched a national Back to Work project aiming to put Americans back to work immediately and ensuring they have the experience, skills, and credentials needed for good jobs and careers once the economy and job market rebounds. America Achieves will build on that work by developing policy memos and congressional proposals; engaging key stakeholders; influencing the use of funds approved through the American Rescue Plan; and completing a longer-term plan for this work.
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As a one-time grant for start-up activities of the African Humanities Association
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
36 months
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The African Humanities Association emerged from the African Humanities Program (AHP), hosted by the American Council of Learned Societies since 2008. The Association, established in 2020, aims to build on the foundation of 449 early-career scholars supported through AHP fellowships, as well as the 50 or more mid-career and senior scholars who have reviewed applications, mentored fellows, and advised the program. With Corporation support, the Association will expand its scope beyond the five countries involved in AHP—Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda—through extension of the African Humanities Series to scholars from other African countries, outreachto other African scholarly associations, and publication and dissemination of a report on the impact of the AHP. The grant will also support training for Association staff and leadership in fundraising and management.
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For support of its educational programming
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
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Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is New York City’s oldest museum and one of the United States’ most renowned historical research libraries. In addition to collecting, preserving, and interpreting, for the general public, cultural artifacts relevant to national, state, and local history, New-York Historical Society partners with the New York City Department of Education to offer robust educational programming to 250,000 K-12 students and teachers per year. These programs bridge the gap between history education and civic engagement, with the goal of empowering students to become active participants of American democracy. With Corporation support, the New-York Historical Society will continue to provide high-impact educational programs and resources to thousands of students and teachers in New York City, both in-person and virtually.
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For a project to develop a virtual simulation game based on Learning Forward's revised Standards for Professional Learning
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
18 months
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WestEd, in partnership with Learning Forward, proposes to develop the content for a powerful learning tool to increase the quality of professional learning in the United States and amplify the importance of centering equity in the design of professional learning systems. Implementing Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning will simulate the use of innovative and effective professional learning approaches to support state, school and district leaders to learn to transform teaching and learning through the provision of the highest quality professional learning for educators. WestEd will develop and pilot the content and game components for a virtual simulation game that will further amplify and deepen the ongoing and effective professional learning in the school system. Through this grant, WestEd will: a) establish a partnership agreement with Learning Forward, b) identify the learning goals for the simulation game,c) convene a design team, d) develop a storyboard and write the content for the pilot, and e) finalize and pilot the simulation game.
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For support of the launch of Version 2 of the Dual Capacity-Building Framework
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
6 months
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Research has shown that student achievement increases when parents are engaged in their children’s learning and that strong family-school partnerships are the foundation for family engagement. Applying best practices in family engagement to local contexts however requires an understanding of the conditions and capabilities that support engagement, particularly at the school and district levels. The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) has been partnering with education leaders to capture best practices and to support the field in deepening its implementation of effective and systemic engagement efforts while enhancing professional development opportunities for teachers, principals, and school staff. IEL is working with Dr. Karen Mapp to finalize and publish Version 2 of the Dual Capacity-Building Framework. With support from the Corporation, IEL will complete Version 2 of the Framework, disseminate it throughout their networks and support broad utilization.
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For support of The Hamilton Project
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
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Launched in 2006 The Hamilton Project (The Project) provides a platform for a broad range of leading economic thinkers to inject innovative and pragmatic policy options—with a focus on driving broad-based, economic growth—into the national debate.The Project’s work brings nongovernmental expertise to bear on economic security issues by strengthening independent scholarship, bridging the gap between academia and policy, deepening congressional knowledge, and responding to special challenges and opportunities affecting economic security. With Corporation support, The Hamilton Project will continue to produce innovative policy proposals, rooted in evidence and experience, and disseminating their work in published papers, Op-Eds, social media platforms, and public events.
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As a one-time grant for support of the Nobel Prize Summit, "Our Planet, Our Future"
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
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The goal of the Policy and Global Affairs Division (The Division) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is to mobilize expertsin the U.S.and abroadto increase the use of evidence to advance local, national, and global policy and capacity. The Division, in partnership with the Nobel Foundation, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and the Stockholm Resilience Centre/Beijer Institute (SRC), will convene the first-ever Nobel Prize Summit: Our Planet, Our Future on April 26-28, 2021. The Summit will examine challenges and opportunities for global sustainability science and evidence-based solutions and will focus on topics such as climate change;rising inequality; lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, and rapid societal transformation enabled by emerging and converging technologies. With Corporation support, the NAS will co-host thisvirtual summit which includes public and invitation only science sessions.
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For support for the participation of three regions in a Midwest community of practice to help local leaders design and implement systems of college and career pathways
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
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For over fifteenyears ConnectED has partnered with school districts, higher education partners, employers, and other community stakeholders to co-design college and career pathways rooted in the local context of each community and with the aim to help students build academic momentum and social capital to succeed in college, career, and civic life.Since the onset of COVID-19, school districts across the country have struggled to engage all students in quality remote-learning experiences threatening to exacerbate inequities for young people who are furthest from opportunity.Corporation support will allow select regions – Madison, Wisconsin, Rockford, Illinois, and North Kansas City, Missouri – to participate in a Midwest community of practice that will help local leaders design and implement systems of college and career pathways. The community of practice will: (1) Help communities implement postsecondary pathways in virtual and hybrid learning environments; (2) Identify common challenges and possible solutions to guide learning in the field; (3) Codify and disseminate best practices to help students transition successfully between grades 11-13; and (4) Support messaging and communications to help parents better understand the benefits of college and career pathways for their kids.
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For a project to engage rural communities in an immigrant inclusion campaign
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
24 months
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Communities across the United States are grappling with rising anti-immigrant sentiment, systemic inequalities, and the country’s history of exclusion, othering, and oppression. According to research by the Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation, “attitudes toward immigrants form one of the widest gulfs between U.S. cities and rural communities.” In fact, climate change, and other factors, are leading to rising migration, and too often, receiving communities perceive immigration as a zero-sum game. Rural and small communities in particular have been targeted with messaging that perpetuates this narrative. Founded in 2009, Welcoming America is a national, grassroots-driven collaborative that builds mutual respect and collaboration between immigrants and their U.S.-born neighbors. With Corporation support, Welcoming America will build on its newly launched Rural Welcoming Begins With Us project to actively engage fifteen rural communities, build new welcoming infrastructure in the form of policies and programs in ten rural communities, and train twenty-five rural leaders to engage in local and national immigrant inclusion efforts.
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For educational and engagement programming
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
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Founded in 1923, the Museum of the City of New York serves the people of New York and visitors from around the world through exhibitions, school and public programs, publications, and collections. It engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city’s past, present, and future. With the creation of the new position, vice president of education and engagement, the Museum plans to expand its reach beyond the galleries by offering cohesive cross-generational programming unifying three essential areas: the Frederick A.O. Schwarz Education Center, public programs, and volunteers/community building. With Corporation support the Museum will its commitment to inclusion, equity, access, and social justice across its programming and community engagement efforts, providing the opportunity to take action to create the future we want to see.
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For work with City University of New York via the Community College Growth Engine Fund to demonstrate their potential position as drivers of innovation between education and employment
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
12 months
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Education Design Lab is a nonprofit that designs, tests, and implements unique post-secondary education models and credentials that address the rapidly changing economy and emerging technology opportunities. By working across disciplines and sectors, the Lab demonstrates where technology, rigor, and design can improve opportunities for historically underserved learners. In March 2020 the Lab launched the Community College Growth Engine Fund (CCGEF) to support community college leadership in delivering skills-focused, market-driven education as regions struggle to mitigate an already growing skills gap further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lab is working with an inaugural cohort of community colleges and systems to develop micro-pathways for learners from K-12, to postsecondary, to workforce that lead to earnings at or above median wage in high demand sectors. Support from the Corporation will allow the Lab to expand across all six CUNY community colleges leading to a system-wide micro-pathway initiative. CUNY will also participate in CCGEF’s national community of practice while redesigning learn-to-work pathways with employers, high schools and other community stakeholders.
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For the production of a documentary film on the findings of a national security commission established in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
12 months
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The year 2021 marks the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. In the wake of the attacks, the United States Congress established an independent commission to evaluate the government’s response to the attacks and the condition of national security infrastructure at the time. The commission was also tasked with providing recommendations on how to deter future security breaches. Naptown Media, an award-winning production company fiscally sponsored by From the Heart Productions, is producing a documentary film on the commission’s findings and the government’s implementation of its recommendations. The film will be distributed nationally through public broadcasting, and it will be accompanied by educational materials and a multimedia curriculum for classroom use. With Corporation support, the film’s producers will conduct interviews with the commissioners, the commission’s staff, and other government officials involved in the commission’s activities. Naptown Media will also begin to produce the accompanying educational materials, in preparation for the film’s public distribution.
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For the China Visibility Project at ChinaFile
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
Description
Scholars, journalists, and policymakers working to better understand and inform the world about China face mounting challenges. The field of China studies needs new tools and ways to access and disseminate existing knowledge. The China Visibility Initiative, a product of Asia Society’s online publication, ChinaFile, aims to facilitate the use of online data about China to answer major questions about the Chinese state’s goals, priorities, and policy implementation. The project will collect and analyze new forms of data to improve public understandings of China and will share resources to help build the capacity of other experts in the fieldto conduct similar work and collaborative analysis.
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For a project to support the dissemination of the Board on Science Education’s National Call to Action report and recommendations for improving K-12 and post-secondary science education
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
18 months
Description
The National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) will assist the Board on Science Education (BOSE) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to disseminate the National Call to Action for science education report and recommendations to the K-12 science teaching community. NSTA anticipates these dissemination and advocacy efforts to state and local policymakers nationwide will lead to increased resources and support for the teaching and learning of K-12 science education. Through this grant, NSTA will: a) develop messaging and communication strategies and resources with BOSE, b) develop aCall to Action Toolkitfor educators to advocate for the recommendations in the report, c) provide dissemination and outreach to K-12 educators through newsletters, emails, social media, the NSTA website, and webinars, as well as through media outlets in large states, d) work with state leaders to coordinate a State Day of Action for Science Education, and e) work with national stakeholder groups to amplify and leverage the report recommendations.
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