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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded fifteen years ago, Women for Afghan Women (WAW) has grown from a small operation assisting the Afghan community in New York City to a major force. Today, WAW operates legal aid centers and long-term shelters for women and children across 13 provinces in Afghanistan, in addition to providing an array of community services in Queens and advocating on behalf of Afghan women in Washington, D.C. The organization’s work has been covered by publications such as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Time Magazine, and has earned prominent advocates, such as Rula Ghani, the First Lady of Afghanistan. With Corporation support, WAW will further expand its services in both New York and Afghanistan, including through the hiring of additional executive-level staff.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Young people who have been poorly served by the current public education system, while having the most at stake in the system’s improvement, often have almost no voice in the conversation about its reform. Students for Education Reform (SFER), founded by Alexis Morin as a college student in 2009, aims to amplify student voice by identifying and training college students in grassroots organizing to be able to advocate for educational reform in their communities. The network has grown to 1,300 student members at ninety-three college campus chapters, about 50 percent of whom are students of color. Through organizing work, SFER builds public understanding of crucial education reform policies by training student organizers, who conduct mobilization campaigns in cities, influence media reporting, and canvass thousands of low-income residents to spread knowledge about reform policies that can serve their students. Their goals going forward are to support and expand the cities staffed by full-time organizers and strengthen and sustain their national office.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform have worked hard to establish deep alliances with a diverse group of partners inside the immigrant community and out. As the reform movement’s leaders have learned, establishing a big tent that includes as many members of diverse communities as possible is crucial to the success of the movement. Partnerships with faith communities, business, and law enforcement—groups that have strong credibility with conservative constituencies—are particularly necessary. With Corporation support, the National Immigration Forum will continue to build these relationships and help leaders from the faith, business, and law enforcement communities educate their communities on the need for immigrant-friendly policies. In addition, the forum will also expand its efforts to involve employers in the naturalization process, making it easier for lawful permanent residents to naturalize and integrate as Americans into their communities.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
In the coming years, given some of the rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, immigrant communities are anticipating a number of increased threats, including harsh enforcement, deportation, and the separation of families. It is urgent, now more than ever, that immigrant advocates continue to educate and activate voters and strengthen their ties with diverse non-immigrant communities—especially low-income African American and white communities. With renewed Corporation support, the Center for Community Change (CCC) provides technical support, training, capacity building, and opportunities for collaboration among state and local groups throughout the country working to increase civic participation among low-income people, minorities, and citizen immigrants.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Mar. 02, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
As the refugee crisis worsens throughout the world, the United States should be a global leader, not only in assisting refugees and immigrants who are escaping desperate situations, but in preventing the further spread of conflict by supporting newcomer efforts to integrate into new communities. There have already been many examples around the world of what happens when immigrants are systematically marginalized and made vulnerable to the influences of extremism. The Refugee Center Online (RCO) offers innovative, cost-effective online resources to help refugees and immigrants integrate and build new lives in the United States. With Corporation support RCO will build its web-based programming, offering free online courses to learn English, prepare for citizenship, and study for a Graduate Equivalency Degree; find local service providers in their communities; learn American customs; and interact with other immigrants through online forums.
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For core support of the Knight First Amendment Institute
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
News organizations have a long history of championing First Amendment rights, helping to shape and clarify laws on privacy, information access, libel, and press freedom. In the past decade, however, economic pressures on traditional news companies have put a strain on their capacity to fight for these rights. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia, established in 2015 by the Knight Foundation and Columbia University, aims to fill this critical void. The institute is dedicated to preserving and protecting First Amendment rights in the digital age and to championing freedoms of speech and the press through strategic litigation, research, and public education. The institute aims, among other things, to be an advocate for these fundamental freedoms in public discourse and an effective defender of these freedoms in the courts.
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For general support of the New York Public Library commemorating the reopening of the Rose Main Reading Room
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years. It is the nation’s largest public library system, featuring a unique combination of eighty-eight neighborhood branches in three New York City boroughs and four scholarly research centers, serving over 17.6 million patrons onsite annually, and millions more online. With Carnegie Corporation support, the NYPL will continue to strive to improve and enhance its core operations and research services as well as serve as a hub of discovery and innovation.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Trump Administration has expanded the pool of immigrants eligible for expedited removal to include long-time residents with no criminal record and has called for hiring more immigration judges in order to accelerate the pace of deportation proceedings. Using its deep knowledge of the country’s complex immigration system, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) provides legal trainings and technical assistance to nonprofits and pro bono attorneys who serve the country’s most vulnerable immigrants, including people in deportation proceedings and people who cannot afford counsel. With Corporation support, CLINIC will continue to assist and strengthen the capacities of legal service providers who directly support immigrants nationwide.
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For core support of its immigration program
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Cato Institute is a nonpartisan think tank that grounds itself in the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Cato’s ideology and commitment to rigorous, evidence-based research has made the institute a trusted clearinghouse that unites conservatives, liberals, and libertarians on broad principles that have helped shape concrete policy initiatives. Launched in 2016, Cato’s Project on Immigration Reform is a growing program that has already covered a broad range of immigration issues and original policies. Cato’s immigration experts and research are frequently featured in the media, including in outlets like CNN and Fox News. With Corporation support, Cato will continue bringing valuable data and unique perspectives to the public debate on immigration. Cato’s contributions will give a balanced assessment of the national landscape and help inform policymakers about the need for critical immigration reform.
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For core support of the State Infrastructure Fund, a donor collaborative that focuses on nonpartisan voter engagement
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Class and racial tensions, intensified by vitriolic campaign rhetoric, fomented “us-against-them” politics in the 2016 election season. Fourteen states enacted new voting restrictions, which have historically impacted racial minorities and low-income communities most heavily. The election results reflected a country divided by geography, gender, age, race, income, and education. Based at Neo Philanthropy, State Infrastructure Fund (SIF) is a nonpartisan donor collaborative that supports and enhances nonprofit organizations that protect voting rights and engage historically underrepresented voters nationwide. With Corporation support, SIF will continue building state networks that maximize civic and voter participation, protect voting rights, and strengthen long-term capacity for voter education and mobilization.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The American Agora Foundation publishes Lapham’s Quarterly, aimed at fostering an understanding and a love of history in a new generation of readers. Four times a year, the editors of the quarterly choose an issue of national importance and assemble a wide range of texts—essays, letters, speeches, etc.—that put the issue in historical context. By maintaining a focus on a single theme in each issue, and by employing a rigorous editorial process, the quarterly brings together some of the most engaging pieces of literature, poetry, prose, and art from the last 5,000 years. With renewed Corporation support, Lapham’s Quarterly will make a concerted effort to appeal to a younger audience, by expanding its social media presence, launching a podcast, and making the publication available through library databases and digital subscriptions.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The terms of the American debate around immigration and refugee resettlement are being radically redefined. The Trump Administration has attempted twice to halt admissions from multiple Muslim-majority countries; ordered the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border; and rebuked hundreds of jurisdictions for noncompliance with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The wide-ranging implications of the administration’s policies demand high-quality, evidence-based information on their ongoing impact. Dedicated to the study of migration, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) is a leading think tank in the U.S. and the world. With Corporation support, MPI will monitor the rapidly changing American immigration landscape, play a leading role in research around immigrant integration challenges and opportunities, and facilitate global alliance building for sustainable solutions to the ongoing global refugee crisis.
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For support to further develop and implement the Integrating Non-Cognitive Teaching and Learning into the Academic Core Project (INTLP), Institute for Student Achievement's (ISA) research-based solution for teaching non-cognitive skills as part of the academic core
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
30 months
Description
An extensive body of research shows that students’ socio-emotional skills are key to their lifelong success. Yet, there remains a dearth of program models that marry socio-emotional learning (SEL) with academic instruction, particularly at the high school level. The Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) has built a national network of over seventy new and turnaround schools, developing personalized supports for high school students across the country. With Corporation support, ISA has completed a pilot project to develop a teacher toolkit for developing students’ non-cognitive strategies by embedding SEL within academic classes. This pilot has been successful in shifting teacher practice and has resulted in promising early indicators of student success. With Corporation support, ISA will: expand this pilot to more classrooms within the pilot schools and to other ISA schools; adapt the core elements of the pilot to a more portable model for new school practices both within and beyond the ISA network; and develop tools and resources to support educators across all of these schools.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Personalized learning demonstrates increasing promise to create effective, student-centered learning experiences, but more work needs to be done at the schools, tools, and systems levels to enable personalized experiences for all students. The Learning Accelerator (TLA) works across all three of these levels to catalyze implementation of high-quality models at scale. They translate initial proof points developed by innovators into actionable knowledge and support for districts; build the capacity of other organizations to do innovative work; and inform policy conditions for this work to be successful. With general operating support from the Corporation, TLA will tackle three specific challenges in today’s education landscape: inadequate knowledge capture; fragmented learning networks; and a lack of sharing and dissemination across organizations. TLA will aggregate best practices and share knowledge, network regional learning communities, and support the development of data infrastructure that makes it easier for educators to access personalized learning resources.
Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Unaccompanied children continue to flee to the United States from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in significant numbers due to escalating violence and danger in their home countries, much of it perpetrated by gangs, narco-traffickers, human traffickers, and other criminal groups. Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) provides advocacy, legal services, and strategic communications aimed at assisting unaccompanied immigrant children seeking refuge in the United States. Immigrants with access to such legal representation are five times as likely to receive relief from deportation than those without. With Corporation support, KIND will continue to offer legal aid for children in deportation proceedings, well-informed and comprehensive media coverage, pragmatic policy recommendations in response to this ongoing crisis, and advocacy for sustaining and expanding foreign assistance to Central America to address root causes of child migration.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Personalized, mastery-based learning experiences are necessary to ensure that students are successful in college and career. The North American Council for Online Learning (iNACOL) has been on the forefront of personalized learning since its inception in 2003, building the nascent field of K-12 personalized learning, developing policy, and networking practitioners. There is now high demand for personalized learning, in part due to iNACOL’s field-building efforts, but policymakers and practitioners need support so that the reality of personalized learning can fulfill the promise of improved student outcomes. With general support from the Corporation, iNACOL will grow organizational capacity and undertake the following activities: support policymakers to create personalized, competency-based learning environments; provide a knowledge-sharing hub and network for K-12 competency-based education; and create field-building and networking opportunities for policymakers and practitioners.
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For core support of its immigration program
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
As the new administration continues to place immigration enforcement at the fore of its policy agenda, law enforcement agencies are rigorously adjusting to changes in federal, state, and local expectations. Since 2007, the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) has been exploring the impact of immigration on law enforcement across the country. Using longstanding relationships with influential police executives, immigrant groups, and federal stakeholders, PERF has been monitoring the effects of proposed policies on community policing, providing on-site assistance to police departments nation-wide, conducting research, and producing reports that have impacted federal enforcement practices. With renewed Corporation support, PERF will use its research expertise and connections with law enforcement leaders to analyze and respond to the administration’s revised policies and executive orders on the country’s police and the communities they serve.
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Project Title
For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Families are bombarded with information, choices, and obligations that begin with preschool and continue through college. With high demands on their time and limited support, many families find the school system confusing and frustrating, in particular in contexts where school choice is prominent. But in the absence of expert help, not all families can make the most of the choices available to them—or even understand what those choices are. EdNavigator is a nonprofit that partners with employers to provide personalized, hands-on educational support to their employees, pairing families with highly skilled Navigators who help them find the right schools, understand their children’s progress in school, support learning at home, and advocate for their children’s educational needs. After a successful initial pilot in New Orleans, EdNavigator is focusing on expanding their work on two fronts: (1) in New Orleans, by expanding to other industry employers, and (2) by launching in a second city.
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For core support of Learning Heroes and project support for a listening tour and development and design of a Readiness Roadmap guide for parents
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Too many students do not graduate high school prepared for success in life. Yet, according to a RAND report, individual and family characteristics may have four to eight times the impact on student achievement compared with teachers. And while we know parents and guardians are on the front lines of their children’s education, engaged and deeply committed to their children’s success, they are frequently underserved and overlooked as a key constituent and customer of their children’s education. Learning Heroes, a new organization seeded by the Corporation along with other national foundations, helps parents become effective advocates of their children’s learning, by driving awareness of and improving the information parents can turn to for an accurate picture of their child’s academic success and enabling actions they can take to best support their children’s learning needs. This renewal grant to Learning Heroes is for continued general operating support and their core communications work to inform and equip parents with research-based information, resources, and simple actions they can take to support their child’s academic and social-emotional success. They are also going to develop a new interactive diagnostic tool to provide parents individualized information about their child’s academic progress and connect them to resources they can access and actions they can take.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Studies show that non-detained immigrants with a lawyer have a 74 percent chance of winning their case. Detained immigrants who represent themselves, on the other hand, have a 3 percent chance of winning their case. Less than one percent of New York City’s 75,000 lawyers practice immigration law for low-income clients and less than 200 accredited non-lawyer representatives can help meet the need. As a result, nonprofit legal service providers – regarded by immigration judges as the highest-quality providers – can handle only a fraction of the immigration defense cases at the New York City Immigration Court. In the counties surrounding NYC, where as many undocumented immigrants need legal help as in the city itself, nonprofit immigration attorneys number only in the dozens. Using an innovative fellowship model, Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC) has been helping immigrants and their families gain access to critical legal information and high-quality representation in NYC, and with Corporation support, IJC will expand to areas outside NYC, including Long Island, upstate New York, and other communities.
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For core support of the College Promise Campaign
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The College Promise Campaign (CPC), founded in 2015 with partial support from the Corporation, addresses an urgent national need to make postsecondary opportunities affordable and accessible to all. The Campaign works to build widespread public understanding that free community college is a vital investment in the social and economic well-being of students, families, and the nation. It also provides local and state leaders with the resources and support they need to initiate effective College Promise programs and research-based practices successfully. These programs continue to gain ground in states and localities across the country, earning bipartisan support and putting college within reach of many high-need students, particularly first-generation college goers.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Now operating in its 29th year, the mission of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is 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. The Museum, housed in a 19th century tenement building, was home for more than 7,000 immigrants who hailed from more than 50 countries including including Russia, Greece, Sweden, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Poland, and Germany. With Corporation support, the Museum will continue to give the more than 228,000 people who visit annually an opportunity to explore apartments that have been restored to the time they were occupied, while hearing stories of the families who lived there. Major stakeholders in the Tenement Museum are the 56,000 school children and 20,000 teachers who visit each year, participating in educator-led tours, learning through facilitated storytelling, empathy building, and teacher professional development workshops.
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For core support of Scholars at Risk Network
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The Scholars at Risk Network (SAR) is rooted in the principle of academic freedom. This international organization works to (1) to protect scholars, (2) defend higher education communities and values through data-driven advocacy, (3) empower individuals through research and training to protect higher education, and (4) increase service to institutions and individuals, especially in Africa and the Middle East. With this renewal request, SAR seeks to augment their capacity to help scholars, students, and universities to accommodate the growing influx of scholar applicants due to crises in Syria, Turkey, and elsewhere. This work will advance protection of higher education communities and human rights, as well as research and advocacy.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 01, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
From news to arts to children’s programming, public television and radio play a key role in educating and entertaining American audiences. For decades, viewers and listeners have looked to public television and radio programs ranging from PBS NewsHour to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition as trusted, objective sources of in-depth journalism, while television’s most successful educational children’s shows, such as the enormously popular Sesame Street, were born from public television and public support. The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (WETA) is among the best and best-known producers of public television and radio in the nation. Corporation support will help ensure that WETA has the resources to meet its challenges successfully, including the cost of increased reporting since the new administration came into office.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
6 months
Description
Social insurance helps workers and their families avoid loss of income, whether due to retirement, death, disability, or unemployment, and to maintain access to health care. In the United States, these include programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, unemployment insurance, worker’s compensation, and Social Security–programs implemented over the past century to help lift or keep millions of Americans out of poverty. The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, promotes these safety net programs. In honor of NASI’s anniversary, the Corporation will support NASI in continuing its public education programs; conducting research and policy analyses; and developing new leaders in the social insurance field.
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As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Studio in a School (Studio) engages children in the visual arts. Its mission is to foster the creative and intellectual development of children through quality programs directed by professional artists, and to collaborate with and enhance the capacity of those who support arts programming for children and youth. Since its founding in 1997, Studio, through its NYC Schools program, has served more than 900,000 pre-kindergarten to high school students in high-need communities. The Studio Institute generates in visual arts instruction, conducts arts education research, and develops professional learning programs and internships. The Institute identifies, documents, and devises best practices and leads field-wide conversations about strategies for instruction. Corporation support will enable the Studio to continue its work in visual arts education, helping to open the door for continued academic success, and eventually for full participation in the civic and economic life of their community.
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For general support.
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act presents a new opportunity for states to rethink how state education agencies will meet the needs of all students with fewer constraints and greater opportunities to align initiatives to their state vision. This will require that chiefs and their agencies take on new roles or roles that agencies have struggled to take on in the past, and shift from a compliance orientation to one focused on fostering equity, accountability, innovation, data-driven decision-making and a service mindset. The demands on chiefs are great, and in many cases, states do not provide them with the time or resources to seek professional development opportunities, guidance and access to mentors. Chiefs need additional support to develop leadership skills. The Council on Chief State School Officers, the only membership organization responsible for supporting public officials who oversee K-12 public education, is uniquely positioned to provide counsel and resources to these leaders, and launched a Leadership Academy in 2014 as one of their strategies for doing so. This grant is for general support.
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For core support of the Aspen Institute Education and Society Program
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
Description
A confluence of factors make this a crucial inflection point in U.S. education: the significant shift toward more state autonomy and responsibility under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); persistent and substantial achievement and opportunity gaps; and an increasingly politically divisive context. As education reform aims to improve student outcomes in this environment, there is a need for a clear focus on systems, integration, coherence and whole-scale human capital improvement in order to avoid exacerbating the existing lack of coordination among programs, organizations and systems. The Aspen Institute Education and Society Program aims to address this in part by creating systemic approaches to professional learning, by (1) increasing the number of systems (districts, CMOs, and states) that have a clear vision, theory of action, and effective practices for building expertise among educators, (2) articulating a role for policy that advances high-quality, applied professional learning in schools, (3) forging an understanding of roles and responsibilities at all levels of education governance, and (4) establishing a clear relationship between high-quality, applied professional learning and curriculum and instructional materials. This grant is for general support for Aspen’s 2017-2020 strategic plan.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Ongoing criticisms of mainstream news media and the traction of “fake news” have generated widespread alarm since the 2016 presidential campaigns. It has led to the degradation of legitimate news organizations, the proliferation of unfounded conspiracy theories that damage reputations and provoke violence, and even attacks upon the idea of truth itself, giving “alternative facts” an unprecedented platform and audience. PEN America maintains an extensive history of advocating for press freedom, both internationally and in the United States. With Corporation support, PEN America will build upon its existing efforts to defend press freedom and pursue efforts to end the influence of fake news.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
9 months
Description
Teacher quality is the single most important in-school factor in student achievement. Yet while policymakers and education leaders acknowledge the importance of teachers, their actual voices are consistently left out of policies that directly impact them and their ability to improve student learning. Motivated by a widespread desire to be heard in policy debates, Bronx teachers Sydney Morris and Evan Stone founded Educators for Excellence (E4E) in March 2010, an entirely teacher-led organization initiating bottom-up reform. The Corporation supported E4E in its early stages to create a comprehensive theory of change and growth strategy. E4E currently operates in six major cities and includes over 26,000 educators united in their mission to influence key policies, such as teacher evaluation, layoff, and tenure systems. Critical to E4E’s theory of change is the belief that union leadership inadequately represents the views of its members. With 86 percent of its members belonging to unions, E4E fills this representational void by training teacher-leaders and mobilizing their collective voice for change within unions and the broader public. The Corporation’s grant will enable E4E to develop its organizational capacity at national and local levels, scale its model, and support its activities.
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For core support for Columbia Global Reports
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
In 2013, Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, asked Nicholas Lemann, former dean of Columbia’s Journalism School, to start a journalistic venture at Columbia. Lemann and Bollinger decided to create Columbia Global Reports (CGR), an independent press that addresses underreported global issues with a non-academic audience in mind. CGR publishes six novella-length books a year based on original reporting and research, in affordable paperback and e-book editions. CGR stands apart from other trade book and nonprofit publishers in the short time from assignment to publication, about twelve to eighteen months, and in its policy of paying for authors’ reporting expenses. While CGR sells books directly to the public, sales do not cover all costs. With Corporation support, CGR will push back against the growing flood of misinformation by providing accessible reportorial journalism.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Standardized testing has become increasingly prevalent in American public schools. This comes with potential drawbacks for teachers, schools, and students, particularly children from underprivileged backgrounds. The National Center for Fair & Opening Testing (FairTest), the only national organization solely focused on testing reform, aims to prevent the overuse and misuse of such testing in schools and in college admissions. With Corporation support, FairTest will continue to organize national, state, and local reform campaigns; educate the public about testing and testing alternatives; and provide training and advice to parents, educators, students, and grassroots and civil rights organizations about issues related to standardized testing.
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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. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
Advocates nationwide have been doubling down on efforts to counter anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies that continue to emerge following the 2016 election cycle. The numerous anti-immigrant actions taken by policymakers since the election and the emergence of anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, and anti-Muslim sentiments during the campaigns have opened a new chapter in the struggles of marginalized communities for full inclusion in society. 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 immigrant integration groups. With renewed Corporation support, FFF will continue to support state and regional groups across the country through grants that build institutional capacity, strategic collaboration among grantees, effective communications, and alliances with other constituencies.
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For core support of its immigration policy program
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past year, the United States has experienced a dramatic shift in federal positions on immigration. Many landmark, pro-immigrant efforts are being scaled back or terminated. The current Administration has been pushing an expanded enforcement agenda, as well as advocating for new policies that would restrict legal immigration, discontinue asylum programs, and reduce employment opportunities for immigrant workers. The groundbreaking immigration policies of the Obama Administration were not the result of a president’s nor a single party’s whims, but the sustained efforts of national and regional organizations over many years. Among the organizations working to advance positive, state and federal immigration policies is the Center for American Progress (CAP). CAP is a respected resource for policymakers, a hub for high-quality research on immigration, and a coordinating entity for research, communications, and policy work. With renewed Corporation support, CAP will continue to drive the immigration policy debate through research, analysis, and collaboration with key players.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
The Corporation has long promoted sustained, nonpartisan civic engagement, with the belief that an engaged citizenry is essential to keeping a democracy healthy and accountable for its constituents. And while recent social movements have galvanized entire populations around important social and political issues, voting continues to be the most critical method of influencing policy and institutionalizing change. Established in 2004, State Voices is a national network that helps grassroots organizations engage in shared policy and civic engagement campaigns. By providing access to sophisticated voter engagement tools and capacity building opportunities, State Voices brings together groups involved in a wide range of issues, from immigration and the environment to health care and economic development, among others, to strengthen their impact on individual policy areas and civic engagement overall. With renewed Corporation support, State Voices will continue to grow and strengthen its network, as well as support partners’ efforts to increase civic and voter engagement in advance of the 2018 elections.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Recent years have challenged civil rights advocates and the disenfranchised communities they work to represent. Jurisdictions nationwide are proposing discriminatory electoral changes quicker than the courts can strike them down; the Census Bureau faces deep funding cuts that jeopardize the accuracy of the decennial census, which helps determine congressional representation and allocate federal resources; and the current Administration has raised unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud, casting serious doubt on U.S. electoral processes. As the leading expert on civil rights research and education, the Leadership Conference Education Fund builds public will for federal policies that promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the U.S. With renewed Corporation support, the education fund will continue to draw attention to a wide range of pressing civil rights issues, including voting rights, an accurate 2020 census, immigration, and a fair, independent judiciary.
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For general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
36 months
Description
The Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance) is a national, nonpartisan policy and advocacy organization that promotes high school transformation such that all secondary students, particularly those who are most at-risk, graduate high school prepared for college and career. While the Alliance has historically operated in the national policy realm, it also provides state, local, and district level policy and implementation support. With current Corporation support, it has contributed to the adoption of federal policies that incorporate a broader definition of student success; assisted states in revising accountability systems and implementing high standards; and supported state and district leaders to introduce policies and practices that support deeper learning. Through this work, the Alliance has established itself as a hub for the sharing of best practices and for networking among practitioners. Building on the current grant, the Alliance proposes to simultaneously continue its policy work at the state and federal levels, while deepening its support to district leaders.
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For core support of the Collaborative for Student Success
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) marks a watershed moment in education policy. States now are solely responsible for setting standards, defining proficiency rates, establishing teacher evaluation systems and school accountability systems. While the scope of ESSA is wide ranging, the Collaborative for Student Success, an eight foundation partnership formed to be a nimble, fast-moving communications operation, will act and react to situations as they present themselves, both on the national stage and at the state level in education. The Collaborative will focus specifically on accountability systems as the important third leg of the education reform stool (standards, assessments, accountability) in ESSA communications. Corporation funding will continue to support the work of the Collaborative to proactively address communication needs around the following issues: framing the narrative and supporting state partners around the accountability provisions in ESSA; communicating the importance of high-quality assessments aligned to high standards; and continuing to defend the high standards (Common Core) by providing state-based support to partners on the ground where necessary.
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As a final grant for core support for the national expansion of the community college pathways programs
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
Description
Nearly 45 percent of the nation’s undergraduate population is served by community colleges. Unfortunately, transfer and completion rates at these vital institutions are almost uniformly low, in part because so many students fail to earn required mathematics credit. In 2009, with significant support from the Corporation, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching launched two programs entitled, Statway and Quantway. These programs have been designed to transform developmental mathematics in community colleges and enable significantly more students to achieve college completion and success by enabling students to fulfill their developmental math requirement and earn a college-level math credit in a single year.
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For core support of the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
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An extensive body of research shows that socio-emotional skills are essential for students to thrive in school, career, and life. While momentum for socio-emotional learning (SEL) has been increasing, efforts to innovate and build knowledge in response have played out in isolation. Over the past year, in response to this challenge, the New Designs team has made a targeted set of programmatic investments to spur instructional innovation around socio-emotional development across a range of contexts and practices. The work of the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (the Commission) complements those investments by providing a national framework for policy, practice, and research. With Corporation support, the Commission will establish a shared understanding of what integrated social, emotional, and academic development in K-12 education means, and lay the foundation for a community-driven movement among educators, families, out-of-school providers, and other stakeholders.
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For core support of the Student Success Network
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
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College and career readiness requires more than academic knowledge—an extensive body of research indicates that students’ socio-emotional and metacognitive skills are key to their lifelong well-being. Yet, there remains a dearth of program models that marry socio-emotional learning (SEL) with academic instruction, particularly at the high school level. Launched in 2013, The Student Success Network (SSN) is a practitioner-led network of 50 youth development and education organizations committed to empowering New York City’s low-income middle- and high-school students with the SEL competencies they need to succeed in college and career. SSN plays a unique role in building its members’ capacity for self-improvement through data collection and analysis, improvement science training, and self-selected learning communities centered on specific problems of practice. With Corporation support, SSN will deepen continuous improvement cycles, innovate SEL measurement and analysis, and grow locally and engage nationally.
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As a final grant for general support
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
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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 adopted a simple model of prescribing books and reading aloud as a means of fostering the language-rich interactions between parents and their young children that stimulate early brain development. Reach Out and Read now serves 4.7 million young children and their families, delivering 6.5 million books through a nationwide network of 5,800 program sites each year, including one in four children living in poverty in this country. With Corporation support, Reach Out and Read will continue its work in selecting and distributing books, training medical providers, creating support resources for providers and families, and the development of new programs.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
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While federal policy provides a framework for education reform, only 10-14 percent of federal resources reach schools. States are the primary leaders in education reform. In a time of innovation and policy change, concerted efforts by state groups are even more vital for ensuring sustainable progress within individual states. By working on complex policy issues through a network of likeminded organizations, reformers can build relationships that amplify their resources around reform. Founded in 2011, the PIE Network creates such connections between state organizations and provides support for leaders by building a constituency that collectively advances policy reform. While not directly advocating for particular policies itself, the PIE Network is therefore able to support organizations along the ideological spectrum, particularly through convenings and the dissemination of evidence-based policy resources. With Corporation support, the PIE Network will continue to strengthen its core capacity for advocacy, build leadership skills through a Leadership Institute, drive strategic initiatives including the elevation of stakeholder voice, and host its annual Building Bridges Summit to connect state-level strategists.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
15 months
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With the expansion of school choice, data proliferation on assessments and achievement, and dynamic changes in our national K-12 system, parents are asking for access to concise and accurate information on schools to help inform their choices. GreatSchools, a national nonprofit providing parents with information on K-12 schools for nearly nineteen years, reaches forty-six million users, an audience that includes half of U.S. parents with school-aged children, 40 percent of whom identify as low-income. With the Corporation’s support, GreatSchools will enhance and expand its school quality and equity information, disseminate parenting guidance content, provide actionable information for stakeholders to improve and advocate for educational opportunities, and measure the impact of their work through surveys on parents’ attitudes and behaviors. In the long-term, the general support to GreatSchools aims to cultivate a national conversation about school quality and inspire low-income parents to take actions that improve their local schools.
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of Georgia State University President Mark Becker's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of Montgomery College President DeRionne Pollard's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
45 months
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Academic Leadership Award in recognition of Case Western Reserve University President Barbara Snyder's outstanding academic and institutional leadership
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
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Founded by world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, Silkroad brings together musicians from a range of countries and artistic traditions to create original musical collaborations, all with the goal of spreading tolerance, understanding, and art appreciation. The Silkroad Ensemble is composed of dozens of artists and performs in a range of venues. In addition, Silkroad musicians teach in and produce various residency, workshop, and educational programs. With Corporation support, during the grant period Silkroad will commission new music as part of its Heroes Project and operate a residency program with Rice University in Houston, among other activities.
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For core support of Project Evident
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
While the demand for evidence-based education programming has grown over the past several years—among nonprofits, funders, and policy-makers alike—siloes within the education sector have resulted in a persistent gap between research and practice. Funders and nonprofits have different evidence priorities, nonprofits lack evaluative capacity, and third-party evaluators don’t fully meet nonprofit needs. Project Evident (PE) was created earlier this year to remove barriers to the creation and improvement of evidence-based practices such that nonprofits can more readily implement programs supported by research, and so that the students they serve can thrive. With Corporation support, PE will: 1) Pioneer a scalable new model for strategic, continuous evidence building in partnership with nonprofit clients through the Learning and Evaluation Support Center; and 2) Pioneer a scalable new model for supporting nonprofit organizations to use low-cost, high-quality data and evaluation tools through the Research and Development (R&D) Lab.
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For general support
Date
Dec. 07, 2017
Duration
24 months
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Technology holds great promise to deliver on the potential of personalized learning for all students, yet systemic policy barriers inhibit the realization of this potential. The Digital Learning Institute (digiLEARN) was founded by former North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue to build on that state’s success in engendering bipartisan stakeholder support for digital learning, and to create enabling conditions for personalized learning across the southeastern United States. Prior Corporation support helped to launch digiLEARN in 2014, to grow the organization into an important convener of state policymakers, and to undertake a case study to establish a model for developing sustainable and bipartisan policy in individual states. With general support from the Corporation, digiLEARN will: 1) Convene a network of state-level stakeholder teams to support policy innovation; 2) Build teacher capacity to implement personalized learning through the Digital Scholars Initiative; and 3) Develop and implement a communications strategy in support of these efforts.
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