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As a final general support grant
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI), established in 2015, is driven by a mission to integrate high-quality evidence into educational policy and practice at all levels. With a team of over 60 researchers, educators, policy experts, and communicators, LPI focuses on connecting policymakers and education stakeholders with evidence-based strategies. The institute is nonpartisan and collaborates with various organizations across the education sector to drive progress. With support from the Corporation, LPI proposes to deepen its activities in response to emerging challenges, declining enrollment, chronic absenteeism, severe educator shortages, and school voucher plans all pose threats to the viability and quality of the education system. LPI will continue to inform education policy and practice on how to redesign schools to enable all students to learn and thrive in ways that enable them to fully participate in democratic life and the global economy—and how to prepare educators for this work.
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For support of updating and improving AP and high school Civics and history content
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Civics is critical in high school as this age group needs foundational knowledge to prepare them to actively participate in our democracy. Given the dynamic nature of U.S. history and government, there is a pressing need to expand and update high school U.S. history and U.S. government and civics courses and AP U.S. History and AP U.S. Government & Politics courses to ensure they are engaging, relevant, and high quality. As states and the College Board update their standards, and our legal and political landscape evolves with new landmark Supreme Court cases and societal shifts, these courses risk becoming obsolete if we do not invest in updating and enriching the material. With Corporation support, Khan would update and improve this suite of courses, first assessing gaps and developing additional content to bring courses up to date, then continuing to build more robust content aligned with key state standards to increase adoption and marketing courses to increase usage and engagement.
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As a final core support grant of the Systems Awareness Lab
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
27 months
Description
MIT’s Systems Awareness Lab is dedicated to increasing the capacity of educators and key stakeholders to design and implement interventions and policies aimed at improving students’ academic outcomes, educational experiences, and future career success. Through a process focused on analyzing context, goal setting, continuous improvement, and leadership development, the Systems Awareness Lab partners with school districts to address problems of practice that stymie student progress. With continued support from the Corporation, the Systems Awareness Lab will expand capacity-building programs in Humboldt County, CA and Ventura County, CA, districts the Lab has worked closely with since its inception, as well as study the impact of this work on students and educators and document and disseminate effective strategies that have demonstrated impact on student outcomes.
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As a final grant for advancing EdRedesign's Success Planning Initiative
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Education Redesign Lab (EdRedesign) was founded in 2014 with the belief that all children and youth, especially those affected by racism and poverty, should have clear and accessible pathways to well-being, educational attainment, upward mobility, and opportunities to succeed in school and in life. EdRedesign’s Success Planning Initiative works with families to develop personalized plans that leverage the opportunities available in their communities. By articulating a path forward and providing families with direct and long-term support, EdRedesign aims to increase the likelihood that students will successfully complete their high school and postsecondary education, setting them on a positive career trajectory. With continued support from the Corporation, EdRedesign will provide coaching to sixteen cross-sector community teams through its Community of Practice, build capacity around success planning through resources, tools, and training, and codify and disseminate tools and learnings related to the impact of success planning on students.
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As a final grant for a project to the Center for Public Research and Leadership to finalize the Curriculum Implementation Change Framework resources and conduct a research study on student outcomes and implementation of the OpenSciEd middle school curricu
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
The Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University provides improvement-oriented research and project support to hundreds of public and nonprofit PK-12 organizations. For the past two years, CPRL has developed the Curriculum Implementation Change Framework and a suite of tools to support effective curriculum implementation using specific English language arts, mathematics and science curricula. Corporation support will allow CPRL to finish development and dissemination of these tools and meet the demand of school and district leaders who want to utilize them with teachers to inform curriculum implementation efforts. CPRL will also conduct a three-year research study investigating whether, how, and under what conditions the adoption and implementation of the OpenSciEd middle school curriculum improves teacher practice, student learning experiences, and outcomes for students.
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As a final core support for the Bank Street Education Center
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
Bank Street College of Education is committed to improving the education of children and their teachers by applying knowledge about learning and growth to the education process, and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world. Prior support from the Corporation established Bank Street’s Education Center, which provides technical assistance to school districts to improve academic outcomes for students.The Education Center creates customized approaches that support strengths-based, learner-centered, and equitable educational practices to help all students and educators thrive in school settings. Continued support will allow the Education Center to expand its work in three strategic areas: increasing equitable access to high-quality math instruction in Harlem, NY; building the capacity of secondary school leaders in New York City through their Principal Innovation Fellowship; and piloting a civics education fellowship that connects teenagers who have different life experiences and perspectives.
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As a one-time grant for general support
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
StriveTogether (Strive) is a national network operating in over seventy communities across twenty-nine states that works to improve cradle-to-career outcomes and enact comprehensive agendas for economic mobility for low-income youth. Strive helps network members translate the growing research base on economic mobility into tangible change for students in their communities. Strive’s efforts to date have resulted in meaningful and measurable impacts for young people, with the Strive Network presently reaching fourteen million young people nationally. By 2030, Strive aims to work through its network to put four million additional children on track to economic mobility. With continued support from the Corporation, Strive will strengthen and grow its network, resulting in improved outcomes for significantly more youth; drive policy change and resources at the local, state, and federal levels; and build capacity broadly through evidence-based virtual training for leaders.
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As a final grant to support the curriculum-based professional learning network and advance aligned policies
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
Learning Forward builds the capacity of state, district, and school leaders to establish and sustain highly effective professional learning in their systems by disseminating evidence-based research, practical tools, and changes to professional learning policies. Through their current grant, they formed the Curriculum-Based Professional Learning (CBPL) Network with three large school districts to improve the implementation of the Illustrative Mathematics program through curriculum-based professional learning in Philadelphia, PA, Montgomery County, MD, and Metro Nashville, TN. Corporation support will allow Learning Forward to continue their work with these district teams in the CBPL Network and improve student outcomes in mathematics. Further funding will also support Learning Forward’s efforts to create the conditions for high-quality professional learning experiences by advancing federal and state policies.
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As a final general support grant
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
While the demand for evidence-based educational programming continues to grow, a persistent gap remains between research and practice. As a result, school districts and states are too often unable to effectively identify and implement evidence-based solutions aligned to their specific needs and desired outcomes. With support from the Corporation, Project Evident (PE) was founded to increase the practice of continuous evidence-building and the supply of evidence-based solutions in the social sector. PE partners with state and local education leaders to use their data and evidence more effectively to continuously improve operational, financial, policy, and programmatic decisions in the pursuit of better student outcomes. With continued support from the Corporation, PE will continue its efforts to provide direct services to school districts and intermediaries, develop and share resources, and create an AI-enabled tool to reach more districts and nonprofits.
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As a final grant to support curriculum-based professional learning with a particular focus on science education
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
19 months
Description
Leading Educators works with school and district leaders to build and sustain the conditions, teaching, and leadership needed to improve student outcomes. They have partnered with over thirty medium- to large-size districts, supporting over 13,000 educators and impacting 196,000 students. A 2022 study of their work found significant results for students, showing a 28 percent increase in math proficiency and a 17 percent increase in English language arts proficiency in their partner school districts. Leading Educators aims to improve science education outcomes by developing an OpenSciEd-specific implementation framework to enhance student performance in selected districts, and creating a professional learning resource hub to provide nationwide access to resources that can bolster science instruction.
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As a final grant to support curriculum-based professional learning with a particular focus on science education
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Teaching Lab specializes in working with school, district, and state leaders around curriculum-based professional learning to improve students’ math, English language arts (ELA), and science outcomes. Through their work, they have reached over 11,000 educators across 24 states, improving the learning of over 730,000 students. In one partner site example, student proficiency in math and ELA increased from 24 percent to 70 percent due to improvement in teacher instruction. In their current grant, Teaching Lab has grown their capacity to provide professional learning in science education. Corporation support will allow Teaching Lab to continue expanding their science education services with curriculum-based professional learning for teachers, school leaders, and district leaders. A key focus of this grant will be to amplify their science education work in Chicago Public Schools.
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For core support to the Anaheim Collaborative
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
The Anaheim Collaborative (the Collaborative), composed of multiple stakeholders, aims to prepare students for college, career, and life through the Career Preparedness Systems Framework, focusing on 21st Century Skills, Technical Skills, and Youth Voice and Purpose. They’ve developed metrics for teaching and evaluating these skills to align instruction and accountability, moving away from traditional standardized tests. In collaboration with UC-Irvine and eKadence, they’ve created an AI-enhanced e-portfolio tool to measure these skills effectively. The project plans to deepen its cross-sector partnerships, expanding and sharpening the use of their metrics, enriching their Capstone program, and fostering a robust teacher leadership system. Guided by commitment to classroom practices that recognize student strengths and potential for civic engagement, the Collaborative has seen an increase in college admissions, transfer rates, and average GPAs among their students. Their challenge now lies in moving away from summative metrics towards an AI-backed tool incorporating continuous feedback. Support for this work comes through the Education Programs Profiles in Collective Leadership initiative, which seeks to support organizations that are delivering learning opportunities that consistently put young people on a path to thriving futures and engaged citizenship.
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For core support of Grads2Careers
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
Grads2Careers (G2C) was established through collaboration prompted by a 2017 study tracking 4,280 Baltimore City Public Schools graduates. The study revealed issues like a 26 percentrate of opportunity youth with low incomes, racial and gender disparities in college degree attainment, and 29 percentof young residents living in poverty. G2C addresses these challenges by providing career-track opportunities for recent City Schools graduates, emphasizing wraparound support services, centralized recruitment and testing, and summer academic acceleration. G2C’s commitment to rigorous learning involves continuous improvement, evaluations, and feedback loops. Despite challenges, G2C achieved remarkable success in Phase I, enrolling 536 youth, transitioning to virtual training amid COVID-19, and raising median annual income for completers by over $10,000 compared to 2009 graduates. Phase II addressed recruitment and testing issues, adopting Salesforce, and diversifying funding sources. Key learnings include overcoming data sharing challenges, prioritizing instructor quality, and integrating early career readiness into Summer Prep. G2C aims for sustainable, system-level change, demonstrated through successful outcomes for youth in Baltimore City. Support for this work comes through the Education Programs Profiles in Collective Leadership initiative, which seeks to support organizations that are delivering learning opportunities that consistently put young people on a path to thriving futures and engaged citizenship.
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For core support of BlueSky Tennessee Institute
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
BlueSky Institute is an innovative collaboration between East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and Blue Cross Blue Shield Tennessee (BCBST) designed to address BCBST’s workforce shortage and the low college-going rates in Hamilton County Schools. The program enables students to earn a Bachelor of Computer Science and secure a high-demand job at BCBST within twenty-sevenmonths. It prioritizes recruitment from six Hamilton County high schools with a high proportion of low-income students and traditionally underrepresented groups in IT fields. The long-term vision of the program is to redefine higher education and streamline workforce development, with the potential for replication across other organizations. BlueSky’s ambitious goal is to graduate and hire 100% of its students. To achieve this, it offers robust academics, early STEM exposure opportunities, a full-year paid internship, and comprehensive support tailored to ensure success in postsecondary education, a thriving-wage career, and workforce readiness. Despite facing challenges in aligning internship and coursework experiences with BCBST’s hiring needs and strengthening its relationship with the K-12 district, BlueSky maintains a 0 percentsummer melt rate and a 94 percentretention rate for its first cohort. Committed to continuous improvement, the program implements a quarterly field research process to document lessons learned and adapt accordingly.
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For core support to CareerWise Elkhart County
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
Horizon Education Alliance (HEA), founded in 2012, focuses on enhancing educational attainment and economic stability in Elkhart County. HEA promotes collaboration between education and business sectors, particularly through the CareerWise Elkhart County (CWEC) apprenticeship model launched in 2019. CWEC, inspired by European apprenticeship models, facilitates meaningful workforce training for high school students, allowing them to earn college credit, industry-recognized certifications, and wages while completing their high school degree. Innovators like Baugo Community Schools (BCS), Hoosier Crane, and the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney have played key roles in shaping and expanding the apprenticeship program. BCS, an early innovator, serves as both an employer and a school district, addressing transportation barriers and establishing a talent pipeline. Hoosier Crane and the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office support cohort models, fostering peer learning and meaningful opportunities for apprentices. The apprenticeship model prioritizes strong relationships, emphasizing social capital development and positive outcomes for both youth and employers. While the program has yielded success stories and high satisfaction among participants, HEA acknowledges the need for a careful expansion approach, recognizing the uniqueness of each apprenticeship and the time required to establish effective relationships with employers, particularly in small and mid-sized businesses. The commitment of employers to multiple apprenticeships and the involvement of school districts contribute significantly to the successful expansion of the apprenticeship model in the community.
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As a final grant to develop, pilot, and bring to market a set of interim science assessments aligned with OpenSciEd courses in high school biology and elementary grades 3-5
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Cognia is a nonprofit organization that develops assessment solutions to advance learning through collaborations with school and district leaders, curriculum developers, and other education experts. Cognia has merged with CenterPoint Education Solutions to develop interim science assessments aligned to high-quality science instructional materials. Through CenterPoint’s current grant, they are developing and piloting interim assessments aligned to the OpenSciEd middle school curriculum with support for teachers and school leaders to utilize the data to better inform science instruction. Corporation support will allow Cognia to expand their assessment bank and resources to include interim assessments aligned to OpenSciEd’s curriculum materials in high school biology and elementary grades 3-5. This allows science teachers from elementary into high school to improve instruction and outcomes for students. The project aims to reach 4,000 students in grades 3-5 and high school biology during the pilot phase.
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As a one-time grant to the Center for Education Market Dynamics to conduct a multiyear market analysis of OpenSciEd curriculum adoptions and students served
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
The Center for Education Market Dynamics (CEMD) focuses on K-12 education and conducts market research through data analytics generating insights to help education leaders and policymakers improve curriculum adoptions leading to better student outcomes. They have developed a comprehensive database encompassing over 1600 school districts, representing 55 percent of all students and 68 percent of historically underserved students nationwide. This provides critical insights into who has access to high-quality instructional materials with more than half the students in the country. Using this extensive data collection bank, CEMD plans to conduct a multi-year market analysis of OpenSciEd curriculum adoptions across the country. They will develop data briefs and external reports for the education field.
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As a final grant to conduct reviews of high school and elementary science instructional materials
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
EdReports is a national leader providing evidence-based reviews of full-course curricula in mathematics and English language arts. They publish freely available, educator-led reviews of instructional materials claiming alignment to college and career ready standards. Through their previous and current grants, EdReports has expanded their capabilities to review science instructional materials, conducting twenty-three reviews of science curricula and finding only one elementary curriculum, two middle school curricula, and one high school biology curriculum that are standards-aligned. This third-party evaluation helps school and district leaders make more informed choices for curriculum adoption in their classrooms. Further Corporation support will allow them to review forthcoming science curricula, including OpenSciEd’s elementary and high school curricula.
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As a final grant to support a group of elementary schools in New York City and provide phonics reading instruction using a fully digital curriculum supplement
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
EL Education is the developer of a highly rated K-8 language arts curriculum that includes supplemental materials to support reading interventions. Through their current grant, they developed and piloted an English language development curriculum to better improve the literacy proficiency of elementary students who are continuing to learn English. Corporation support will allow EL Education to support 25 elementary schools in the Bronx and Manhattan with Unlock Phonics. This new, fully digital supplemental curriculum supports students in grades 3-5 that need additional reading instruction, specifically focused on phonics and phonemic awareness.
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For core support of Opportunity Insights
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Opportunity Insights (OI), a nonpartisan research and policy institute focused on improving economic opportunity, utilizes big data to document both the decline of upward mobility and potential solutions to revive it. Their model is designed to produce foundational scientific research, translate this research to both scholars and non-academic audiences, and ultimately inform policies that increase upward mobility. Since its founding in 2018, OI has released a series of studies that have made fundamental contributions to the science of economic opportunity, sparked significant policy changes in domains ranging from federal affordable housing to higher education to the design of economic stimulus programs, and trained a diverse new generation of scholars and practitioners focused on economic opportunity. With support from the Corporation, OI will undertake three related projects focused on how postsecondary education can be an engine of mobility: exploring how to increase economic diversity in higher education access; understanding college value-add; and strengthening the evidence on workforce program impacts.
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As a final general support grant
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) is a membership organization that works to support the academic and economic advancement of young people of color through harnessing the power of the multi-racial, multi-sector, values-aligned leaders in their network. Rooted in research demonstrating that proximate leaders positively impact the outcomes of the stakeholders they serve, EdLoC provides programming that supports the leadership development and cross-sector collaboration of its members, as well as advocates for policies on the local, state, and national levels in furtherance of its mission. With Corporation support EdLoC will 1) grow, strengthen, and further diversify their network and the supports provided to members, 2) influence policy, with a focus on issues that prioritize the economic and educational advancement of young people of color, and 3) increase the impact of their grantmaking through their Boulder Fund.
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For core support of Indiana University Health Fellowship
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
Indiana University (IU) Health and Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) established a partnership in 2019, aimed at addressing education and workforce development needs in the healthcare sector. They co-developed a healthcare-focused curriculum that prepares students for healthcare industry jobs and launched a pilot program, the IU Health High School Fellowship, at Crispus Attucks High School in 2020. The Fellowship offers the students a health sciences curriculum, work-based learning experiences, dual credits to Ivy Tech Community College, and guarantees a job offer from IU Health upon completion of the program. Such collaborative efforts aim to address systemic challenges and to provide IPS students with crucial training and education. However, challenges in raising awareness for the Fellowship Program, securing parental buy-in, and ensuring smooth post-high school transitions for students still persist. Support for this work comes through the Education Programs Profiles in Collective Leadership initiative, which seeks to support organizations that are delivering learning opportunities that consistently put young people on a path to thriving futures and engaged citizenship.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
The X3 Internship program, launched by Future Focused Education in 2017, addresses the need for better academic and career readiness in New Mexico. The program offers paid, school-linked internships, especially in healthcare, to help students explore local career paths. Partnerships with healthcare providers have been pivotal, allowing the program to create customized experiences for each intern based on their skills and interests. Despite pandemic and systemic racism challenges in 2020, the initiative grew, extending its reach to diverse students. The program has been successful in improving career attitudes, skills, and connections for the interns, breaking down negative stereotypes and promoting civic engagement. Plans are underway to scale and align this initiative with larger statewide workforce development strategies. Support for this work comes through the Education Programs Profiles in Collective Leadership initiative, which seeks to support organizations that are delivering learning opportunities that consistently put young people on a path to thriving futures and engaged citizenship.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
Collegiate Edu-Nation (CEN) was launched to address the education gap in rural communities. Its P-20 System Model works to improve rural students’ educational outcomes by aligning their paths with local job opportunities. The initiative involves creating a culture of high expectations, dual-credit programs, and focusing on high-demand fields through teacher training, leadership development, and stakeholder engagement. Expected outcomes include high school completion, attainment of degrees and certifications, and aligning pathways with workforce demands. The innovative model includes ongoing research, work-based learning, hands-on experiences, and tying classroom learning to real-world issues. As they plan to scale, they aim to learn from other leaders in the sector. Support for this work comes through the Education Programs Profiles in Collective Leadership initiative, which seeks to support organizations that are delivering learning opportunities thatconsistently put young people on a path to thriving futures and engaged citizenship.
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For core support of the Latine College & Career Access Network
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
The LaCCA Network, established seven years ago, addresses educational and career disparities among Boston’s economically disadvantaged Latine youth, primarily from Boston Public Schools. Annually, it supports 250 young people aged 14-21 through free, holistic educational, postsecondary success, and career readiness programming, including mentoring, skill building, sector-specific training, internship placements, academic case management, and family engagement. Despite achieving successful outcomes such as high school graduation, understanding of college and career pathways, and successful transition to postsecondary education, the network has identified an increased need for academic and mental health support due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To address these challenges, the network is considering strategies such as increasing academic support services and incorporating more emotional health activities into its programming.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
26 months
Description
Established in 2014, West AlabamaWorks! (WAW) is a business and industry-led workforce development council, addressing the needs of business and industry in the region. With a mission to enhance economic prosperity, WAW connects job seekers with training and opportunities, emphasizing outcomes and impact. The organization collaborates with over 250 representatives from various sectors and industries, working through a Board of Directors, Regional Workforce Council, WIOA board, and five industry clusters. WAW focuses on building a highly skilled workforce through strategic industry clusters, impactful programs, and advocacy for systemic change. Through initiatives like Career Connect and outreach efforts, WAW connects over 27,800 individuals to job opportunities, expanding platforms for justice-involved populations and youth. Collaborating from pre-K to high school, WAW ensures students have pathways to education and employment, hosting events like Worlds of Work and Regional Signing Day. Despite challenges in rural counties, WAW addresses communication gaps, emphasizing community partnerships and wrap-around services to overcome obstacles and empower individuals in the nine-county region of West Alabama. Success for WAW lies in recruiting, training, and empowering a highly-skilled workforce, ultimately improving the community and combating generational poverty.
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For general support
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
15 months
Description
The Coachella Valley Economic Partnership initiated the OneFuture initiative to bridge gaps in educational attainment, access, and career readiness. The initiative formulated a Regional Plan for College and Career Success addressing key student populations and setting regional level goals including high career program enrollment, financial aid attainment, college and career planning and scholarship provision. Various Alignment Teams were established focusing on specific student demographics and their needs, guided by data and student feedback. A notable program developed in partnership with the Riverside County Office of Education and CSU San Bernardino supports migrant students’ postsecondary access and exploration of STEM careers. Some achievements include increased FAFSA completion rates and awarding of over $17 million in scholarships. Support for this work comes through the Education Programs Profiles in Collective Leadership initiative, which seeks to support organizations that are delivering learning opportunities that consistently put young people on a path to thriving futures and engaged citizenship.
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For support of the Education Recovery Scorecard
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
12 months
Description
Launched in 2022 by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, the Education Recovery Scorecard (ERS) has served as a critical resource for assessing pandemic-related educational losses at the district and state levels. With Corporation support, the 2022 Scorecard analyzed achievement changes as a result of the pandemic across nearly 8,000 districts in forty-one states, and provided insights into additional factors within districts, such as annual instructional budgets, that impacted student learning during the pandemic. With additional Corporation support, the 2023 edition was the first national report on the pace of recovery in individual districts across the country. CEPR is seeking to expand the Scorecard beyond its focus on pandemic recovery to make it a trusted annual source of local student outcome data, including student achievement and other outcomes such as chronic absenteeism. Continued support will allow CEPR to update and expand the ERS with new and broader data, conduct analysis and publish reports on the relationship between (1) absenteeism and recovery and (2) federal pandemic relief, and widely promote the Scorecard and related analysis and reports in local and national media.
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For core support of PeerForward New York
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Although securing a postsecondary credential has become increasingly vital to an individual’s ability to secure employment and achieve economic mobility, resources to support college access and success remain insufficient. To address this gap, the Corporation supports a cohort of college access organizations working to meet the varied needs of New York Citystudents. PeerForward trains students to serve as Peer Leaders, who lead school-wide campaigns focused on key college access milestones, such as completing college and financial aid applications, to encourage postsecondary enrollment. Prior Corporation support enabled PeerForward’s NYCregion to partner with fifteen high schools that enroll 5,500 students annually, including 1,300 seniors who receive direct support from PeerForward and the trained Peer Leaders. This has resulted in improved outcomes for the Peer Leaders and their classmates: an independent evaluation found that NYC partner schools achieve 28 percent higher FAFSA completion rates and nationally partner schools show at least 60 percent higher four-year college enrollment rates compared to similar schools. Renewal support will enable PeerForward to equip Peer Leaders to support 1,300 high school seniors annually as they navigate their postsecondary transitions.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
18 months
Description
Voting rights experts anticipate obstacles for voting to intensify in the upcoming presidential election. Voters are at a heightened risk of receiving mis- and dis-information about voting andwill face a range of restrictive voting measures in states across the country.Founded in 1963, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law was created at the request of President John F. Kennedy to mobilize the nation’s leading lawyers as agents for change in the civil rights movement. For more than sixty years, the organization has engaged in voting rights and civil rights litigation, advocacy, and nonpartisan voter education at the national, state, and local levels. With Corporation support, the Lawyer’s Committee will continue protecting voting rights, fighting discriminatory practices, and ensuring civil rights protections.
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As a final grant for the McCain Institute's fellowship program for emerging African peacebuilding leaders
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The Corporation has supported versions of the McCain Institute’s Global Leaders (MGL) program at Arizona State University (ASU) since 2018. The program aims to offer a world-class training experience to mid-career professionals and to empower the program participants to become effective changemakers in their respective countries. While the MGL program supports leaders from around the world, Corporation funding has focused specifically on the training and mentoring of the next generation of leaders from Africa dedicated to peacebuilding on the continent. The MGL is structured as a ten-month non-residential fellowship (with one month of in-person programming). Fellows participate in three in-person study tours, an online skills training and peer mentorship curriculum, and are introduced to relevant professional networks.
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For ongoing support of the Task Force on US-China Policy
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
With U.S.-China relations on an increasingly adversarial trajectory, the United States needs a better understanding of China’s actions and aspirations to adapt policy to current and future conditions. The Corporation’s continued support of Asia Society’s Task Force on U.S.-China Policy (the Task Force) promotes communication and collaboration among a bipartisan group of the country’s top regional experts to assess developments, issue policy recommendations to the U.S. government, and inform the public debate on the U.S.-China relationship. The Task Force seeks to engage with Indo-Pacific and China specialists on core issues of mutual interest, including trade and economic relations, security strategy, and the implications of technological developments. The reports and briefings resulting from Task Force working groups aim to inform U.S. policymaking and provide analytical resources for military officers, academic scholars, and other experts.
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For a Chinese language fellowship program and a research project on China’s relations with its neighboring countries
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
0 months
Description
China’s global prominence continues to attract the attention of international affairs experts, practitioners, and world leaders. Addressing the increasing salience of U.S.-China relations and their implications for peace and security requires a robust community of policy-minded American China experts and a deeper understanding of how China perceives its position in global affairs. Renewed Corporation support to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) will advance two important initiatives: the Chinese Language Fellowship Program (CLFP); and the expansion of a policy research project on China’s perception of its “strategic space.” CLFP, now in its sixth cohort, addresses the general deterioration of area studies in the context of strained U.S.-China relations. The research project will analyze China’s activities in its “borderlands” to better understand how China is pursuing economic and security objectives in its neighborhood.
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For continued support for the Wilson China Fellowship program for early career scholars
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
41 months
Description
China’s role in shaping economic, political, social, and security developments in Asia and beyond is having profound implications on global peace and stability. Understanding these developments and their relevance to the United States requires a diverse range of expert voices in the U.S. foreign policy conversation. To bring these voices to the forefront, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars supports an annual cohort of sixteen China-focused fellows whose expertise and interests cross disciplinary, geographic, and institutional bounds. Through research scholarships and mentorship, the Wilson China Fellowship develops a network of scholars equipped to both inform and challenge the prevailing policy wisdom. Each cohort culminates in a collection of policy recommendations on a wide variety of timely issues promoted to U.S. policymakers.
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For a study on nuclear targeting, civilian casualties, and the laws of war
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
U.S. nuclear policy states that nuclear targeting minimizes civilian casualties and abides by the laws of armed conflict. But U.S. analytical and expert communities have questioned the accuracy of these claims.With renewed funding, the National Security Archive (NSA) will continue a project to shed light on U.S. nuclear targeting policies and their potential consequences. NSA will use Freedom of Information Act requests and oral histories with former policy officials, practitioners, and experts to create collections of primary sources on this issue.The collected materials will be analyzed by NSA staff and made available to others so as to provide better understanding of U.S. nuclear targeting policies, their consequences for civilians, and the degree to which such policies conform to international norms about armed conflict.
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For a project on geopolitics, nuclear issues, and the Middle East
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
American-Iranian tensions are on the rise since the U.S. withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and Iran’s indirect role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war. As such, retaining lines of communication and relationships between experts and former officials in Iran and the United States have become increasingly important. With renewed funding, the International Institute for Strategic Studies will continue to facilitate Track II dialogues and related expert workshops, as well as disseminate findings through briefings of relevant policymakers and online articles and publications. IISS has successfully established itself as a trusted avenue for these dialogues in both Washington, D.C. and Tehran. Renewed support for this project will help promote de-escalation between the U.S. and Iran and broader regional stability.
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For a project on nuclear command and control and artificial intelligence
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
Concerns abound about the potential dangers created by using artificial intelligence (AI) in nuclear weapon command and control systems. But assessing how to mitigate these dangers is made more difficult because few details are known about these systems due to classification and mistrust. With this project, the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists will investigate and analyze the command and control systems of nuclear possessor states and, in the process, train a new generation of analysts in the methods of open source intelligence. The work will result in published research on command and control systems and will enable analysis of the role of AI in these systems by FAS as well as other experts in both the policy and academic communities.
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For fellowships for technical training on nuclear nonproliferation and arms control
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Analysis of nuclear policy and the development of arms control verification methods require technical proficiency and mentoring in niche applications of physics and engineering. With renewed funding, this project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Nuclear Engineering Department will help build this technical capacity by training a doctoral student or a post-doctoral fellow through a project that analyzes the vulnerability of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos to strikes from precision-guided conventional weapons.The project will also assess the implications of such a development for strategic stability and future opportunities for arms control.
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For support of University World News (Africa) higher education editorial projects
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
The African higher education landscape is a rapidly evolving sector marked by both significant progress and persisting challenges. University World News-Africa (UNW-A) is an open-access online media platform dedicated to coverage of Africa’s higher education sector. It publishes on a range of topics aimed at expanding knowledge about the sector, facilitating discussions, and bridging communications divide between academia and policy officials. With continued Corporation support, UNW-A will deepen and expand its coverage throughout Africa.
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As a final grant for improving university research administration in sub-Saharan Africa
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Strengthening research management systems and structures is a prerequisite for African institutions to tap into an increasingly globalized andcompetitive funding environment, grow research portfolios, andapplyresearch to real-world problems. The University Administration Support Program (UASP), administered by theInternational Research and Exchanges Board, offersa set of training and related programs to strengthen university research offices and processes. With continuedsupport, UASPwill further grow and professionalize a cohort of university staff and alumni engaged in the advancement of research missions.
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As a final grant for competitive fellowships for early-career academics at Makerere University and four Ugandan partner public universities
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
30 months
Description
Makerere University is one of the oldest and most prominent public universities in Africa. Over the past two decades, the Corporation has supported various programs at the University, including institutional strengthening, gender equity, advancement of faculty with PhD, and postdoctoral research and publications. With renewed grant, Makerere will continue to support early-career academics at the postdoctoral stage with emphasis on research skills, research communication, and gender inclusivity at the University and the four partner public universities in Ghana, namely Busitema University, Gulu University, Kyambogo University, and Mbarara University.
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As a final grant for Future Africa’s early-career leadership fellowship program to build transdisciplinary research skills
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Transdisciplinary research has the potential to offer solutions to some of the world’s pressing challenges. The University of Pretoria in South Africa has adopted transdisciplinary research by creating a purpose-built campus, Future Africa (FA). With Corporation support, FA’s Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LEAF) program enables early-career scholars and scientists from a range of disciplines to focus on specific themes through a transdisciplinary approach. With renewed support, FAR-LEAF will offer competitive fellowships on the politics of sustainability. The grant will support research, training, networking, and publications.
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As a final grant for support of doctoral and early-career fellowships with expansion to four partner universities in Ghana and the region (Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa (BANGA-Africa) - Phase 4)
Date
Mar. 07, 2024
Duration
36 months
Description
The University of Ghana, Legon (UG), one of the oldest universities in West Africa, has strived to become a leading research-intensive institution by increasing faculty with terminal degrees and growing research funding and publications with support from the Corporation.UG has also aimed to strengthen universities and academic capacities in sub-Saharan Africa more broadly. With the final grant for Building a New Generation of Academics in Africa, UG will further improve research excellence and productivity at UG and four universities in Ghana and elsewhere in West Africa.The grant will support PhD recruitment and training, capacity-building workshops, mentorships, research collaborations, and publications.
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As a one-time only grant for a project analyzing the designation of nuclear materials as primarily for civilian or military use
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
0 months
Description
Some technologies and materials are useful for both the production of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. Such “dual use” items are governed by a system of national and international rules intended to allow the peaceful uses of nuclear energy without contributing to the development of nuclear weapons. These rules have increasingly been manipulated to allow some states to create infrastructures to build up or modernize their nuclear arsenals or create alliances with other states through the sharing of sensitive technologies. This project will analyze the implications of the flexibility with which some technologies and materials are designated as either civilian or military in nature and the consequences for global nonproliferation norms.
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For a project training journalists in nuclear weapons issues
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
With the decline in interest in nuclear weapons-related issues after the Cold War, few media organizations invested in covering these stories.Combined with the technical nature and jargon of nuclear weapons, the result has been a significant decrease in coverage and critical analysis.With this project, the Outrider Foundation will provide training workshops, educational materials, and access to non-governmental experts for journalists and editors.This will contribute to increasing media analysis and coverage of nuclear weapons issues and more opportunities for the public to engage with and be more informed about this topic.
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As a one-time only grant for a project on providing the public with information about nuclear weapons issues
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
27 months
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Polling shows that Americans are concerned about the dangers of nuclear weapons and want to know more.Yet there are few resources that can explain such issues to a general audience and even fewer that communicate through the diverse media needed to reach different age groups.With this project, Back from the Brink, through fiscal sponsor Los Angeles Physicians for Social Responsibility, will help fill this gap by creating and disseminating a variety of media resources to provide the public with information about contemporary nuclear weapons-related issues.These resources will be designed for non-expert audiences and, where possible, emphasize local priorities.
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As a final grant for building capacity for institutional data gathering, policy advocacy, and research at African Research Universities Alliance universities
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Recognizing the critical need to advance quality research conducted by African researchers in African universities, and the valuable role of collaboration across sectors, regions, and disciplines, several university presidents established the African Universities Research Alliance (ARUA) in 2015 with initial support from the Corporation. Today ARUA is comprised of sixteen member universities and holds thirteen centers of excellence as focal points for world-class researchers from its network. With renewed support, ARUA will continue to strengthen its members’ capacity to conduct research, provide research training, and advocate for the sector. It will also expand its on-line data collection portal for detailed statistics on Africa’s universities.
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As a final grant for research, capacity building, and international networking on African philanthropy
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
Philanthropy has a long-existing history in African communities. However, the formalization of the field of philanthropic studies has onlyrecentlyemerged in Africa. Indiana University’s Lilly School of Philanthropy (LFSOP) seeks toimprove and increase the understanding of philanthropy globallyby offering education, training, and research to students and practitionersglobally. With Corporation Support, LFSOP will facilitate research on philanthropy in Africa and provide training, capacity building, and network strengthening opportunities for emerging African scholars in philanthropic studies, in partnership with African institutions focused on philanthropy.
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As a final grant to elevate African peacebuilding expertise in the media
Date
Sep. 12, 2024
Duration
24 months
Description
African scholars produce in-depth research on peace and security issues that rarely appears in formats accessible to policymakers and the interested public. At the same time, journalists often lack access to specialist expertise to inform their reporting on these issues. To address these disconnects, AllAfrica, a leading online source of news across Africa, began working with African peacebuilding scholars in 2018 to produce multimedia content for and with its network of more than 100 news and policy-oriented organizations. With renewed Corporation support, AllAfrica will continue to produce this content, conduct briefings between media leaders and peace researchers, facilitate policy dialogues, and disseminate peacebuilding analyses. In addition to publishing original content and providing consistent coverage of underreported developments, the project will continue to fosterconnections among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.
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For advancing scholar-practitioner engagement, through workshops, on-line publications, and case studies
Date
Jun. 06, 2024
Duration
30 months
Description
Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD), housed within the School of Foreign Service (SFS), combines the experience and outlook of the practitioner and academic worlds. Since 2016, the Corporation has supported the expansion and dissemination of the ISD’s well-established diplomacy case studies library used by academics and students at hundreds of institutions globally and a series of ISD scholar-practitioner working groups on emergent, global diplomatic challenges. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ISD expanded its outputs by producing the “Diplomatic Immunity” podcast and “The Diplomatic Pouch” online magazine, both of which address issues facing diplomats and national security decision-makers around the world. Through these activities, the project seeks to shape the professional trajectory of early career academics and policy analysts by promoting the application of rigorous, policy-relevant scholarship to pressing issues on the international peace and security agenda.
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