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Grantmakers for Education, 2023
From 2020-2022, seven national foundations collectively supported the out-of-school time (OST) field to withstand, recover, reopen and re-imagine, through the acute phases of the COVID pandemic and the ongoing impact. The funders pooled their resources through Grantmakers for Education (EdFunders), providing grants to national intermediaries…
Descriptors: Grants, Minority Groups, African Americans, Hispanic Americans
Jung, Minna – Grantmakers for Education, 2023
In April of 2023, a group of education funders gathered from around the country in Gallup, New Mexico. The main purpose of the visit, which took place April 26 to April 28, 2023, was to learn about Gallup-McKinley County Schools' career pathways programs, which provide opportunities for young people in the district to explore careers like digital…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, High School Students, Career Exploration, Motor Vehicles
Jung, Minna – Grantmakers for Education, 2022
In part shaped by movements like Black Lives Matter, the crisis of the global pandemic, and the political and social turbulence of recent years, many thoughtful conversations have taken place in the philanthropic sector that question the power and privilege inherent in grantmaking and challenge whether conventional norms and practices in…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Race, Equal Education, Private Financial Support
Grantmakers for Education, 2020
During the spring of 2020, Grantmakers for Education held four master classes, which are described in this report; centered around the theme of authentic community engagement: (1) How Should Philanthropy Create More Inclusive Spaces?; (2) Listening to and Learning from Leaders of Color in the COVID-19 Crisis; (3) The Power of Collaboration with…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Grantsmanship, Grants, Private Financial Support
Grantmakers for Education, 2020
In March 2020, a pandemic brought traditional in-classroom learning to a halt for more than 55 million students in the U.S. Teachers and families, in most cases, found themselves scrambling to provide remote learning at short notice. What may have seemed like a fast solution, moving to online instruction, has highlighted challenges for many…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Grants, Grantsmanship, COVID-19
Grantmakers for Education, 2018
Generally speaking, black, Latino and Native American learners continue to face a variety of barriers to opportunity that result in severe disparities in academic achievement and educational outcomes. The persistence of these inequities has prompted some funders to step back, reflect and ask themselves what else they need to be doing to remove…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Philanthropic Foundations, Change Agents, Race
Carroll, Kathleen – Grantmakers for Education, 2015
Standardized tests are under a microscope as states prepare to administer new PARCC and Smarter Balanced tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards. This brief takes on five concerns about testing and is designed to help funders reframe the larger conversation to preserve a critical source of information about school, teacher and student…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, Alignment (Education), Testing
Carroll, Kathleen – Grantmakers for Education, 2015
The challenge of updating curriculum to align with Common Core State Standards is a national one felt by states, districts, and teachers alike. Teachers generally express enthusiasm for the Common Core, but consistently cite a lack of high-quality curricula as an impediment to teaching them. The demand for core-aligned quality materials has far…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Alignment (Education), State Standards, Educational Quality
Otto, Rafael – Grantmakers for Education, 2014
Since 2011, Grantmakers for Education has offered a series of investigative programs designed to examine the role grantmakers can play in creating more equitable systems of education. GFE's programming included place-based programs in El Paso, Texas, Newark, New Jersey, Oakland, California, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. During this time, Grantmakers…
Descriptors: Grants, Equal Education, Educational Finance, Minority Group Students
Grantmakers for Education, 2014
In 2011, Grantmakers for Education (GFE) partnered with the Monitor Institute to develop the K-12 Education Strategy Landscape Tool--an asset mapping tool that used interactive data visualization to provide a clear picture of the who, what, where, and when of education grantmaking. The prototype launched in January of 2012. Over a dozen funders…
Descriptors: Grants, Educational Finance, Private Financial Support, Visual Aids
Maeroff, Gene I. – Grantmakers for Education, 2014
What incentive could be stronger in a community than full-tuition college scholarships for all graduates of a public school system? Could this be an answer to the question of how the nation can support children growing up in poverty so that they may access middle-class opportunities? When George Weiss, a successful young money manager, pledged to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Scholarships, Public Schools
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
Grantmakers for Education, 2012
Since the mid-1990s, constituency building and advocacy for better public education have grown steadily in New York City. "Working Together to Achieve Greater Impact" explores how that growth was fueled by the Donors' Education Collaborative of New York, which pools its members' financial resources and expertise to advance shared…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Donors, Public Education
Grantmakers for Education, 2012
"Persistence, Partnership and Public Will" explores the sustained role the Annie E. Casey Foundation played in Kentucky for more than a decade to help create an environment in which the state's ambitious and comprehensive effort to improve education for all of its students would have the time, resources and attention needed to prove its…
Descriptors: Persistence, Educational Change, State Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth
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