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Otto, Rafael – Grantmakers for Education, 2018
When CME Group Foundation (CME) was formed in 2007 with an endowment from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Trust, its founders set out to engage in grantmaking that would improve education from cradle to career and strengthen the region's economy. During its first decade, nearly a quarter of CME's grants targeted early childhood education with an…
Descriptors: Grants, Low Income Groups, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
Grantmakers for Education, 2012
To better advance its mission of promoting lifelong learning, the PacifiCorp Foundation committed in 2001 to begin devoting 20 percent of its grantmaking budget to a long-term, multi-year initiative to support a small number of grantees; trustees chose the area of early literacy for its first initiative. "Focus for Impact" is intended to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Children, Lifelong Learning, Educational Change
Grantmakers for Education, 2012
Grantmakers for Education's Principles for Effective Education Grantmaking identify "innovation" and "constant learning" as a core proposition for achieving results in education philanthropy. To illustrate this principle, "Learning by Doing" examines the Noyce Foundation's efforts to apply new information to its…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Professional Development, Private Financial Support, Grants
King, Caroline – Grantmakers for Education, 2006
Even after acting on the best available information to make a grantmaking decision, a grantmaker should seek to learn from grantees, remain adaptable to new ideas and open to unexpected learning, and willing to admit when grants do not turn out as expected. To this end, Grantmakers for Education's Principles for Effective Education Grantmaking…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Grants, Reading Skills, Writing Skills
King, Caroline – Grantmakers for Education, 2006
The PacifiCorp Foundation for Learning was at a turning point in August 2006. It had been five years since the corporate foundation had shifted its focus from general-purpose grantmaking to supporting individual and community learning, and its flagship Early Childhood Literacy Initiative--launched in 2003 to raise literacy rates in the communities…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Program Effectiveness, Lifelong Learning, Emergent Literacy