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For core support of the Supermajority Education Fund and its efforts to engage women around civic issues
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Women are the majority of voters, volunteers, and grassroots donors in the United States. They also comprise nearly 50 percent of the workforce and are the primary wage earners in 40 percent of families with children. Yet, women are also the majority in groups most targeted by voter suppression, including communities of color, low-income people, college students, and the elderly. Fiscally sponsored by New Venture Fund, Supermajority Education Fund is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to research and public engagement around women’s civic participation, with the aim of advancing true equity for women in American society. With Corporation support, Supermajority Education Fund will educate and mobilize millions of women in all fifty states around civic issues, including nonpartisan voter registration and policy advocacy.
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For core support of CityWorks
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
13 months
Description
Youth apprenticeships can play a pivotal role in closing the gap between students’ high school learning experiences and the demands of the twenty-first century economy. In Washington, D.C., where a booming regional economy has not translated into meaningful work opportunities for local public school students, the case for these experiences is especially compelling. CityBridge Education, a nonprofit with a long history of successfully incubating new ventures in D.C., is addressing this challenge with the launch of CityWorks, a new initiative dedicated to building strong pathways for local youth into high-wage, high-demand careers. With Corporation support, CityWorks will launch a youth apprenticeship program in D.C. modelled on CareerWise Colorado, and it will actively engage public and private partners in efforts to create education-to-employment pathways for students in Washington, D.C.
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For core support of the YES project
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
10 months
Description
Reimagining pathways to educational and economic opportunity for young people will require strategic collaborations across K-12, postsecondary, and employers. America’s Promise Alliance (the Alliance), the nation’s largest cross-sector alliance of nonprofit, community organizations, businesses, and government entities, is launching a new initiative to foster these collaborations such that all young people have access to meaningful employment opportunities. The YES Project (Young. Employed. Successful.) is a national youth employment campaign that aims to achieve full employment for Americans ages 16 to 24 by the year 2030. With core support from the Corporation, the Alliance will convene members, conduct action roundtables, and engage youth in order to develop actionable research and tools in support of strengthening the youth workforce.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1920, the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) is a national grassroots organization that operates in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. Through its network of 800 state and local branches and its tested civic engagement programs, LWVEF aims to drive voter turnout among low-propensity women voters, especially in states where they are underrepresented. Since October 2006, LWVEF has operated VOTE411.org, an online platform that has been used by nearly 38 million people looking for nonpartisan federal, state, and local election information. With Corporation support, LWVEF will continue to make strategic investments to mobilize and educate millions of women voters, protect their voting rights, and advocate for fair electoral maps using data from the 2020 Census.
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For core support for the annual Paris Peace Forum
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Beginning in 2018 with the centennial of the end of World War I, the government of France launched a series of forums to promote new methods of international cooperation. Each November, the Paris Peace Forum convenes heads of state and government, local and national elected representatives, regional and international institutions, and civil society organizations. Through discussions and public events, they highlight innovative and public-private “hybrid” measures to building peace, strengthening multilateralism, and advancing sustainable development goals. The third annual Forum will focus on responses to the COVID-19pandemic, includingglobal health governance and healtharchitectures in developing countries, more resilient societies andeconomic systems, andtheusage of data and social media in fighting pandemics. RenewedCorporation supportwill contribute to the Forum’s core operations.
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For core support of Learning Heroes
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
6 months
Description
Families have high hopes for their children but despite rising high school graduation rates, only thirty-seven percent of graduates are prepared for college-level reading, and only twenty-five percent are prepared for college-level math. Research shows that when parents are informed about student progress and equipped with actions to support their child, student achievement improves. It is essential to improve parents’ access to information and resources in order to increase student achievement. Learning Heroes, a nonprofit organization founded with Corporation support in 2016, is an expert on parent mindsets, listening to families in order to create content that engages them at a national scale. Renewed support from the Corporation will enable Learning Heroes to continue to inform the field about family and teacher mindsets, specifically what happens when parents gain an “accurate picture” of their children’s progress, and furthermore, equipping families with research-based information, resources, and simple actions they can take to support their child’s academic and social-emotional success, especially in the aftermath of the school closures due to the 2020 public health crisis.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Since 1963 Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) has provided college access and success services to largely low-income, under-represented, and first-generation students through Out-of-School Time (OST) and youth development programming focusing on academic preparation and related support services. SEO provides services from ninthgrade to college completion serving roughly 1,000 students per year in high school and a total of 730 college students. This grant is for general operating support for SEO Scholars New York City Program.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Despite there being an unprecedented 80 million people around the world who have been forcibly displaced from their homes, including 25.9 million refugees and 3.5 million asylum-seekers, the United States has been systematically dismantling its asylum and refugee resettlement systems. In addition to reducing the country’s cap on refugee admissions to historic lows, the current Administration has separated thousands of asylum-seeking families at the U.S.-Mexico border and made asylum standards more stringent and inflexible. Founded in 1978, Human Rights First is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting the respect of human rights and adherence to the rule of law, including the 1951 Refugee Convention. With Corporation support, Human Rights First will represent vulnerable clients who are seeking asylum in the United States, promote policies that honor the country’s longstanding commitment to protecting refugees, and challenge systematic abuses to the human rights of asylum seekers through strategic litigation.
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For core support of its voter protection program
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
More than 2.5 million domestic workers, many of whom are immigrants and women of color, do the physically and emotionally demanding work of caring for families and managing homes. Domestic workers such as nannies, house cleaners, and care workers are often left out of mainstream civic engagement efforts, making them susceptible to targeted misinformation and low voter turnout. Founded in 2007, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is a national organization dedicated to empowering domestic workers and advocating for their respect, recognition, and inclusion in national and state policy agendas. With Corporation support, NDWA will use innovative digital tools to provide personalized online elections assistance to its network of domestic workers and dispel targeted misinformation that would undermine the voting rights of women, immigrants, and people of color.
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For general support, in honor of its 100th anniversary
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1920, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan public interest organization dedicated to protecting and advancing human rights and civil liberties in the United States. Using impact litigation, public education, media strategies, and policy advocacy, the ACLU serves everyone within the U.S., particularly disenfranchised groups deprived of rights and freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution. It houses fourteen issue-based projects, including its Speech, Privacy and Technology Project (SPT), its Immigrants’ Rights Project (IRP), and its Voting Rights Project (VRP). With Corporation support, the ACLU will continue to leverage its legal expertise and reputation to provide principled and intersectional defense of both the Constitution and U.S. democracy.
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For support of its official launch and core reporting on policy issues affecting women’s lives
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Although women comprise 53 percent of the electorate and regularly vote at higher rates than men in elections, the political media landscape does not adequately reflect the voting public. Seventy-three (73) percent of news editors are men and 90 percent are white, and women wrote only 34 percent of all international and political news stories in 2018. Research institutions have expressed repeated concerns about the sociological and political effects of mainstream news being consistently produced by newsrooms that lack diversity. Launching in 2020, the 100###sup/sup### anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment’s ratification, 19th News is a nonpartisan digital news organization that aims to elevate the voices of women—and women of color in particular—in mainstream media. 19th News seeks to explore some of the most pressing policy areas affecting women across the country, including healthcare, voting rights, and access to the ballot box. With Corporation support, 19th News will officially launch its digital news platform, featuring a newsroom that reflects the racial and socioeconomic diversity of American women.
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For providing free subscriptions to college students to increase their understanding of global issues
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Launched in 2016, DailyChatter is an international nonpartisan emailed, daily newspaper with a mission of helping its subscribers understand context in this immensely complex world by filtering news-worthy items with a staff of deeply experienced journalists. With Corporation support, DailyChatter will offer free subscriptions to students at participating colleges and universities. Indeed, the project currently reaches ninety-fiveuniversities in thirty-five states, the District of Columbia, and twelvecountries outside the United States.
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For core support of the Education Redesign Lab
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Despite facing greater challenges related to health, safety, and academic performance, students living in poverty continue to have relatively limited access to high quality schools and enrichment opportunities as compared to their more affluent peers.Addressing this challenge will require integrated systems of support that bring together multiple community stakeholders to attend to the broad spectrum of student needs within and outside of the classroom.This is precisely the work of the Education Redesign Lab (the Lab) at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). With Corporation supportsince2017, the Lab hasworked withcity teams—comprising mayors, superintendents, and keycross-sectorcommunity leaders—todevelop comprehensive systems of education and child supportin those cities.The Lab has alsodevelopedand shared resources so thatinnovations canbeimplemented beyond the Lab’sninepartner communities.Renewed support willenable the continuation and next iteration of this work.
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For support of the New York City COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
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For general support
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Recent changes to United States immigration policies are projected to result in a 30 percent decline in legal immigration, which would drastically impact the sustainability of the nation’s labor force, the resiliency of shrinking rural communities, and the country’s global competitiveness in numerous fields of business, research, and technological innovation. Since 2003, the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) has been generating high-quality nonpartisan research dedicated to immigration, international trade, and the U.S. economy. With Corporation support, NFAP will continue to produce and promote in mainstream media its research on the legal immigration system, the vital contributions immigrants are making to the country, and the positive fiscal impact of inclusive immigration policy reforms.
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As a one-time only grant for general support during the COVID-19 crisis
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
A nonprofit community and cultural center, 92Y seeks to provide and disseminate programs of distinction that foster physical and mental health foreducation,spiritual growth, and enjoyment. 92Y promotes individual and family development and participation in civic life within the context of Jewish values and American pluralism. While online programming consists of a large part of their outreach, the closure of 92Y’s building and suspension of all in-person programming has caused a drastic shortfall in revenue relied upon to support their audiences. With Corporation support the 92Y will be able to continue their efforts, providing much-needed connection and inspiration for New Yorkers, the nation, and our global communities during this crisis and through recovery.
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For core support of Scaling Student Success
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
The mission of Scaling Student Success is to more holistically and equitably prepare young people for future success.Scaling Student Successis dedicated to educating the whole child, assuring that young people (particularly those who historically have been furthest from opportunity) are prepared for futuresuccess.Their growing Community of Practice (CoP) includes Californiaschool districts dedicated toengaging their community stakeholders to create a Graduate Profile, which offers arenewed vision and definition of the college and career-ready student, serves as an impetus for shifting instructional practices and engaging students in deeper learning, and requires a shift in assessments that provide students authentic ways to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.Support from the Corporation will focus primarily on growing the Community of Practice among participating California school districts.
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As an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic for general support
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
8 months
Description
Over the past decade, GO Public Schools local networks of families, educators, and community allies in California have proven repeatedly that change is possible when the voices of those closest to our public schools are leading the conversation. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there have been a range of impacts both economically and personally, andthe immediate and long-term effects on students, families, and communities are immense. GO’s proximity to families, educators, and community allies has allowed them to quickly shift their focus from their ongoing advocacy campaign work in education to serve as a resource on pressing information, amplify critical messages and needs, and develop content for families and educators. At the same time, they are working to ensure the availability of a large suite of online tools and capabilities for their family advocates in the long run. Support from the Corporation will enable Go Public Schools toelevate parent voices to the state level, and in the national conversation about how best to ensure students are provided with the supports and attention they need to move forward.
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For general support during the COVID-19 crisis
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1989, Reach Out and Read was established by a group of medical doctors to improve literacy in young children, particularly those from low-income households. They developed amodel of prescribing books and reading aloud as a means of fostering the language-rich interactions between parents and their young, pre-kindergarten children that stimulate early brain development. Reach Out and Read is a cost-effective andscalable,delivering eightmillion books through anetwork of almost 6,400 program sites each year. During the COVID-19 pandemic, with Corporation support, Reach Out and Read will continue to keep their health care providers and staff engaged,create a telehealth version of their work, and build out a new online resource library, during a time when actual books cannot be as widely distributed.
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For general support during the COVID-19 crisis
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1979, Mercy Corps is a global team of humanitarians working together on the front lines of today’s biggest crises to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities in more than 40 countries around the world. Their members work side by side with local communities living through poverty, disaster, violent conflict and the acute impacts of climate change. This project aligns with the Corporation’s commitment to support essential global services and advance the causes of peace and democracy during the COVID-19 pandemic. With Corporation support, the COVID-19 Resilience Fund will support Mercy Corps’ work to ensure the ongoing delivery of life saving programs and help to reduce the health, economic and psychosocial effects of the crisis on the most vulnerable.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
With a population of more than 60 million people, Latinos are the second largest population group in the United States. Yet, Latino Americans continue to face myriad barriers to full participation in American political and civic life. This includes being consistently undercounted in the decennial census, being unable to vote due to voter suppression efforts, as well as being inadequately informed about the process and benefits of naturalization. Established in 1981, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund is a leading nonpartisan organization facilitating full Latino participation in American civic life, from naturalization to public service. With Corporation support, NALEO Educational Fund will promote policies for advancing Latino civic engagement, empower the Latino community to participate in the democratic process, and convene Latino policymakers to discuss timely issues, such as education, workforce development, and public health
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For core support of the Collaborative for Student Success
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
The abrupt discontinuation of schooling due to COVID-19 will exacerbate the achievement gap as underserved students increasingly struggle from the lack of resources and adequate support. To help mitigate learning loss among our most vulnerable students the Collaborative for Student Success, a leading strategist and central communications hub founded as a collaborative effort of eight foundations including the Corporation, leverages the capacity of state-based partners and provides direct support as needed to allies on the ground. With continued support from the Corporation, the Collaborative will continue its longstanding focus on equity and supports for disadvantaged students both throughout the COVID-19 crisis and when students inevitably return to school. They will provide targeted state investments to the field, identify and fill communications gaps in key strategic areas, and further build out our coalitions of support (faith, military, and teachers) and strong bipartisan surrogate voices.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
A postsecondary credential has become increasingly vital to an individual’s ability to secure employment, yet resources to support secondary students’ college access and success are insufficient. iMentor partners with high schools in low-income communities and matches students with mentors who utilize a research-based curriculum to support students on the path to college. iMentor 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, despite identical aspirations to complete a postsecondary education. Previous grants have enabled iMentor to incorporate socio-emotional learning (SEL) into the model, resulting in 95 percentof mentors reporting greater awareness of SEL and 80 percentof students sharing that their mentors helped them develop SEL knowledge and skills. Corporation support will enable iMentor to continue participating in CAP and transforming college access and success for low-income students through positive mentoring relationships, which have proven even more essential during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For core support of its Disaster Resilience Program amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
According to a 2019 report by the Urban Institute, natural disasters disproportionately devastate lower-income communities, creating new poverty and further entrenching inequality. Moreover, communities of color hit by medium-sized disasters have experienced an average 31-point credit score decline, compared to only 4-point declines by majority-white communities. Data shows that communities impacted by such disasters require a full continuum of legal services before, during, and after the crises to achieve long-term economic and health recoveries. Since 2005, Equal Justice Works has deployed more than eighty fellows across the country to provide critical legal assistance to individuals affected by hurricanes, tropical storms, oil spills, and more. With Corporation support, Equal Justice Works will expand its Disaster Recovery Legal Corps to address the impact that COVID-19 has had on already marginalized communities, in addition to continuing its support for survivors of other natural disasters in the United States.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1997, Humanity in Action is an international nonprofit organization that supports democracy, pluralism, and human rights through intensive educational programs geared toward college students, recent graduates, and other emerging leaders from around the world. Humanity in Action provides these changemakers with opportunities to study historical social justice movements in other countries and empower them to advocate for change in their own respective communities. Humanity in Action has an alumni network of more than 2,150 fellows, and it has placed nearly 300 of its senior fellows in months-long professional fellowships at the European Parliament, United States Congress, the American Civil Liberties Union, the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and others. With Corporation support, Humanity in Action will continue to build a multinational community of young leaders committed to strengthening democratic values and human rights standards.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
An urgent response to the COVID-19 pandemic is needed to ensure anequity agenda in education is established and followed at the federal, stateand local levels. Otherwise, the nation is at great risk of worseningeducational opportunities and outcomes for our most vulnerable students. TheEducation Trust (Ed Trust), founded in 1996 with Corporation support, is anational nonprofit organization dedicated to closing opportunity gaps byexpanding excellence and equity in education. Through research and advocacy,the organization builds and engages diverse communities who care abouteducation equity, increases political and public will to act on equity issues,and advances strategies that increase college access and completion forhistorically under-served students. Over the next two years, Ed Trust plans toadvance a COVID-19 equity agenda with a focus on resource equity, postsecondarypathways and educator diversity.
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For continued support of capacity building to strengthen core advisement work
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 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. 10, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
Too many first-generation college students struggle to find their first jobs. In part the challenge is structural, as first-generation students lack access to the social capital that comes with having family members and extended communities with college degrees.Absent these networks, and the advantages that come with them, it’s hard to build the knowledge, confidence and connections that permit their privileged peers to successfully navigate the transition from college to career. Basta’s direct service programs are designed to provide the social capital and knowledge that other students get from their social networks, to make sure that the competitive playing field for bluechip first jobs is more level and equitable.Support from the Corporation will help Basta achieve scale by tackling two major challenges: building the capacity of other youth-facing organizations, and codifying the Basta direct-service model so that the organization is positioned to serve many more young people.
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For core support of OneGoal New York
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Apostsecondary credential has become increasingly vital to an individual’s ability to secure employment, yet resources to support secondary students’ college access and success are insufficient. OneGoal equips educators to facilitate a three-year college success model, in which high school students complete credit-bearing courses and receive coaching and support through freshman year of college. OneGoal 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, despite identical aspirations to complete a postsecondary education. Previous grants have enabled OneGoal to serve 2,066 fellows in thirty-one high schools in New York City and advance postsecondary enrollment and persistence goals, such as 77 percent of OneGoal students achieving positive growth in GPA or SAT and 86 percent of fellows immediately enrolling in a postsecondary program. Corporation support will enable OneGoal New York to continue participating in CAP and transforming student outcomes by building the capacity of schools, both remotely and in-person, to support student access and success in college.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
15 months
Description
There is currently a shortage of education leaders with the skills, knowledge and beliefs to disrupt racial and economic inequities in order to ensure that each student and educator are part of a system that is intentionally built for them to achieve academic, social, and emotional success. This type of school leadership is the essential lever for transforming schools, especially as these inequities are heightened during the current COVID-19 pandemic. As schools work to continue K-12 instruction through remote learning, New York City Leadership Academy (NYCLA) will develop and support education leaders in the school, system, and state levels, and empower them to transform their leadership in ways that accelerate learning for every student across the system. Through this grant, NYCLA will focus on: a) providing professional learning to partners converting services to remote learning where necessary, b) refining their leadership development, and c) shifting the national conversation towards disrupting inequities brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
15 months
Description
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education field anticipates a massive need for leader and teacher support as schools plan to reopen. The field will need models for accelerating student learning during compressed learning periods. Instruction Partners, an organization founded in 2015 to build the capacity of systems and school leaders to support effective and equitable instruction, took an early lead to develop and share COVID-19 school toolkits and frameworks through their online School Resource Hub. They anticipate that in the fall, school and system leaders will continue to need tools and professional learning supports. Through this renewal grant, Instruction Partners will develop: a) a Framework for Learning Recovery and Acceleration for system and school leaders, b) professional learning for school leaders and teachers, and c) dissemination strategy for the Recovery Framework and professional learning materials to share with the field.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2007, ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit news agency dedicated to exposing abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions. The recipient of six Pulitzer Prizes, five Peabody Awards, eight George Polk Awards, two DuPont Columbia Awards, and three Emmy Awards, ProPublica’s strength lies in both the quality of its reporting staff and its extensive data-mining and analysis capabilities. With Corporation support, ProPublica will continue to cover issues related to K-12 and higher education, international peace and security, and U.S. democracy, including through its Electionland coverage of misinformation and challenges to voting rights and voting.
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For core support of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
In the era of political polarization and “fake news,” it is critical that journalists provide the public with substantive and factual reporting. Academic research can increase the accuracy of news and provide much-needed context for individual stories, but many journalists do not know where to find trustworthy research or how to properly incorporate it into their reporting. To address these deficits, in 2015, Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy created the Journalist’s Resource, an online database containing curated academic and government research findings selected for their relevance to current challenges facing American society. The center works to make this information accessible to non-academics by translating complex statistics into logical data points and reformulating esoteric terminology into clear language. This tool enables reporters to incorporate scientific evidence and high-quality, peer-reviewed research into their stories. With Corporation support, the Shorenstein Center will continue to improve and expand the Journalists Resource.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Sustaining and accelerating progressin education innovationrequires the active cultivation of enabling policy conditions and the diffusion of strategiesfor implementation. The Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance) operates on both fronts, transforming policyat the federal,state, and local levels, while also leveraging its expansive networkof partnersto support district- andschool-level change. The Alliance was founded in 2001 to promote high school transformation such thatevery child would graduateprepared forpostsecondarylearning and successin life. Over the course of the current grant, the Alliance haspursued that missionthrough two key strategies—policy development and Future Ready Schools—thatmaximizethe Alliance’s strong relationships with policymakersand myriad partnershipswith peer organizations. With renewed support, theAlliance willundertakepolicyworkandrespondtopractitionerneeds as the landscape continues toevolve.
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For core support of the PBS NewsHour
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Public support for the news media is at its lowest levels in decades. Despite widespread mistrust of the media, the PBS NewsHour remains a trusted news source for millions of Americans. The 2019 Erdos and Morgan Opinion Leaders Survey rated the NewsHour as the most objective among all media and also the most credible TV news program. In this era of political polarization and “fake news,” supporting trusted sources of news is of critical importance. With renewed Corporation support, the NewsHour will continue its coverage of international affairs, states at risk, voting and voting rights, and K-12 education.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
In 1923, a committee of esteemed judges, lawyers, and scholars incorporated the American Law Institute (ALI) to address two major obstacles to justice in the United States: the uncertainty and complexity of American laws. For nearly 100 years, the ALI has been providing critical resources to courts, legislatures, and the legal profession to clarify and improve the U.S. legal system. These resources are borne out of rigorous, years-long research by legal scholars, helping to apply precision to ambiguous statutory language, provide prescriptive language for enacting laws, and offer best practices based on analyses of existing laws and practices. The ALI is currently working on a range of issue areas that are at the forefront of legal discourse, including data privacy, corporate compliance, and policing. With Corporation support, the ALI will increase its research capacity and expand the number of topics that its researchers cover.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
18 months
Description
According to the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 79 percent of voters between ages 18-29 say that the COVID-19 pandemic has helped them realize that politics impact their everyday lives. Moreover, 60 percent now believe that their peers are motivated to express their views through voting. Yet, more than 50 percent of survey participants were either unfamiliar with online voter registration or incorrectly assumed their state allows online registration, suggesting a lack of adequate information around the political process. Founded in 1990, Rock the Vote is a leader in civic engagement technology and maintains an exceptional record in mobilizing young voters. Rock the Vote partners with a broad range of cultural influencers, state governments, and companies in entertainment and media technology to promote a popular and informed culture of voting. With Corporation support, Rock the Vote will grow its nonpartisan voter engagement infrastructure, and partner with state governments and cultural influencers to make the franchise more accessible to young voters.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 79.5 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced, including 26 million refugees and 42 million asylum seekers. Xenophobic rhetoric and policies in the United States and elsewhere have only exacerbated challenges refugees face in seeking refuge from violence and persecution, a reality compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2010, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) has delivered legal assistance to more than 30,000 displaced people around the world and set groundbreaking legal precedents for refugee and immigrant protections in the United States. With Corporation support, IRAP will continue to expand its programs safeguarding refugee rights and resettlement. It will challenge new and existing threats to legal and procedural rights for refugees and asylum seekers and provide legal assistance to many of the world’s most vulnerable refugees.
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For core support of Bottom Line New York
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
A postsecondary credential has become increasingly vital to an individual’s ability to secure employment, yet resources to supportstudents’ collegeaccess and success are insufficient. Bottom Line connects low-incomehigh school and collegestudents with professional advisors who support them through the range of financial, academic, and personal challenges that emerge on the path to and through college. Bottom Line participates in the Corporation’sCollege Advising Partnership (CAP), which aims to address the persistent gap in degree attainment between high- and low-income students, despite identical aspirations to complete a postsecondary education. Previous grants have enabled Bottom Line New York to serve nearly 3,000 students and achieve strong outcomes in college access and success, with 99 percent of high school students committing to attend college and 97 percent of first-year college students persisting into the spring semester. Corporation support will enable Bottom Line New York to continue participating in CAP and transforming student outcomes through personalized support, which has proven even more essential during the pandemic.
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For core support to the organization, VotER, a nonpartisan initiative dedicated to increasing civic engagement among eligible voters who utilize emergency healthcare services
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
Today, 51 million voting-eligible adults are not registered to vote in the United States. This population is disproportionately comprised of the young, the poor, and communities of color. This demographic also disproportionately utilizes medical emergency services for non-urgent care, largely due to a lack of access to standard healthcare channels. Founded in 2019 as a sponsored program under Massachusetts General Hospital, VotER is a nonpartisan initiative dedicated to increasing civic engagement among a population underrepresented in political discourse. VotER has equipped more than 10,000 physicians, nurses, medical students, and social workers with toolkits that they can use to help patients learn about and access nonpartisan resources for civic engagement education. With Corporation support, VotER will expand its infrastructure and capacity to support the growing number of healthcare professionals across the country who are interested in engaging Americans in the civic process.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
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The 9/11 Memorial & Museum stands as a globally recognized symbol of healing, renewal and hope in the aftermath of tragedy. The site remembers and honors the 2,983 people killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001 and February 26, 1993, as well as those who risked their lives to save others. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum has been closed indefinitely since March 13, 2020. Unlike many cultural institutions in New York City, the 9/11 Memorial & Museum earns 90 percent of its operating revenue through ticket sales from an average of 8,500 visitors each day—approximately $230,000 a day. When the museum does reopen, it is expected to do so with significantly reduced visitation. Corporation support will help maintain the 9/11 Memorial & Museum and support its plans for a major fundraising initiative.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
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Since its opening in 1988, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum seeks to preserve and interpret the history of immigration thorough personal experiences of the generations of newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum, like many of its sister institutions, is having to adapt to online museum tours and educational outreach. With Corporation support, the museum will adjust to this new environment and also plan for in-person tours when the opportunity presents itself.
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For core support of the KW Foundation
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
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Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the role of government and voting has become even more important, particularly for vulnerable populations. Kerry Washington, a nationally known actor and public figure, has launched Influence Change 2020, an initiative to leverage major entertainment influencers to ensure that the maximum number of voters can safely participate in the upcoming elections. With Corporation support, the KW Foundation will support these influencers in their efforts amplify the digital work of on-the-ground advocates and other nonpartisan civic engagement organizations executing critical Get-Out-the-Vote work. The influencers will engage black, Latinx and youth voters, in particular, through partnerships with social media groups like PushBlack, Pulso, and Parents Together. The Corporation is joining the Ford Foundation and the Movement Voter Project in supporting this initiative.
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For core support of the Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
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With 60 percent of students at the City College of New York (CCNY) being eligible for federal Pell grants and other forms of financial assistance, CCNY is heralded as a national model for social mobility. The Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership is the largest unit at CCNY, educating 4,000 of the college’s 16,000 students and bestowing degrees to nearly one-third of the college’s graduates each year. The Colin Powell School supports and promotes pedagogy and research in the social sciences and is committed to leadership development and engagement in domestic and international policy, public service, business and finance.With Corporation support, the Colin Powell School will adapt to the COVID-19 environment as it works to ensure the least amount of disruption to the students it serves.
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For core support of the FutureEd think tank based at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
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FutureEd is an independent, solution-oriented thinktankatGeorgetownUniversity’s McCourt School of Public Policy that is committed toadvancing thecauses of excellence, equity, and efficiency in K-12 and higher education on behalf of the nation’s disadvantaged students. Combining the status and assets of a national research university with education policy expertise and communications skills, they work to provide policymakers and practitioners with clear, evidence-based analyses of pressing educational problems. Work over the next two years will include launching projects to strengthen the teaching workforce; forging a new national consensus on school reform; rethinking the role of standardized testing and credentialing in school accountability and postsecondary pathways; crafting federal education policy proposals; strengthening student persistence rates in high school and college; improving public school choice systems; and helping states and school districts respond to the COVID crisis.
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For core support of PeerForward New York
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
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A postsecondary credential has become increasingly vital to an individual’s ability to secure employment, yet resources to supportsecondary students’ collegeaccess and success are insufficient.PeerForwardleverages positive peer influence inhighschools to increase college enrollment by empowering students to serve as peer leaders and run campaigns on critical steps toward college. PeerForward participates in the Corporation’sCollege Advising Partnership (CAP), which aims to address the persistent gap in degree attainment between high- and low-income students, despite identical aspirations to complete a postsecondary education. Previous grants have enabledPeerForwardNew Yorkto serve over 8,600 students across eighteen high schools and advance key college access goalsthrough over 200 student-led campaigns, such as increasing Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and college application completion.Corporation support will enablePeerForwardNew York to continue participating in CAP and transforming college access by empowering young people to create college-going school cultures, both in school buildings and in distance learning environments.
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As a one-time only grant for general support during the COVID-19 crisis
Date
Sep. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s (JALC) mission is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy. In alignment with Andrew Carnegie’s vision “to promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding,” JALC has built an international platform for America’s distinctive art form. Through its improvisation, encouraging individual expression and personal freedom, jazz is a metaphor for democracy, inspiring us to face adversity with persistent optimism. Due to Covid-19, JALC has lost an unprecedented amount of income with the cessation of public performances. With Corporation support, JALC will be able to continue and expand online programming while developing a 2021 concert season program.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
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In addition to terminating humanitarian protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and attempting to suspend refugee resettlement efforts, the federal government has been making the legal immigration systemmore difficult to access. Moreover, federal stimulus packages aimed at alleviating the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has largely excluded immigrant communities, despite immigrants comprising an outsized share of the essential workforce. Founded in 1968 by leaders of the civil rights, labor, and anti-poverty movements, the Center for Community Change (“Community Change”) leads a national network of forty state-based organizations working to empower immigrant communities. With Corporation support, Community Change will provide training, capacity building, and opportunities for collaboration among state and local organizations working to increase civic participation among racial minorities, immigrants, and low-income people.
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For core support of the Four Freedoms Fund, a donor collaborative on immigrant civic integration at the state level
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
12 months
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Although immigration advocates are successfully advancing pro-immigrant policies at the state and local levels and challenging some of the harshest anti-immigrant measures, immigrants continue to be made targets of dangerous political rhetoric and discriminatory policies. In recent years, the Trump Administration has escalated immigration raids at courthouses and places of work, separated families, detained young immigrant children, and weakened the legal immigration, refugee and asylum systems to unprecedented levels. Established in 2003 with Corporation support, the Four Freedoms Fund (FFF) is a donor collaborative housed at Neo Philanthropy supporting state-based and regional immigrant-serving coalitions across the country. FFF serves a hybrid role of convener, grantmaker, and strategist, connecting grassroots organizations with national immigration advocacy groups. With Corporation support, FFF will support state and regional organizations across the country through grants that build institutional capacity, promote strategic collaboration among peers, increase civic engagement, devise effective communications, and create intersectional alliances with diverse allies.
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For core support of its immigration program
Date
Dec. 10, 2020
Duration
24 months
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In the last several decades, both Republican and Democrat majorities in government have failed to enact their respective parties’ preferred vision of comprehensive immigration reform. In order to develop and implement necessary fixes to the country’s immigration system, policymakers will have to not only work across political aisles and sectors of society, but also obtain majority support from the general public. Founded in 2007, the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a public policy organization committed to fostering bipartisan coalitions and combining the best ideas of both major political parties, with the goal of improving health, security, and opportunity outcomes in the United States. With Corporation support, BPC will provide critical analysis of new and existing immigration policies and develop commonsense policy recommendations for the nation’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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