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Lawrence, Steven; Hansen, Ulcca Joshi – Grantmakers for Education, 2023
This document is the latest Grantmakers for Education's (EdFunders) study of what's now and what's next for education philanthropy. It aims to give insight into the priorities of the education funding community, and to help funders understand their role in supporting education innovation that benefits the nation's learners. The findings in this…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Educational Finance, Grants, Philanthropic Foundations
Grantmakers for Education, 2020
How should philanthropy support young people in this perilous time in U.S. history? The confluence of a global pandemic, an economic crisis, and a nationwide call for racial justice will fundamentally alter the lives of all American learners. Change is inevitable, but whether it will widen inequity or result in systemic change that narrows…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Educational Finance, Social Justice, Educational Change
Otto, Rafael – Grantmakers for Education, 2020
How can funders create a grantmaking strategy that puts them in a position to quickly and effectively respond to unpredictable challenges? This case study follows strategy redevelopment for The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's education program. The re-envisioning of the strategy ensured the education program team could be nimble and…
Descriptors: Grants, Philanthropic Foundations, Private Financial Support, Educational Finance
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
Wisdom, Michelle – Grantmakers for Education, 2015
The Walton Family Foundation was at a pivotal point in early 2015. After investing $1.3 billion in K-12 education over the previous two decades, executive and board leadership were reflecting on past work, and charting a course for the Foundation's strategic direction based on key learnings from their investments in education. The Walton Family…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Elementary Secondary Education, School Choice, Access to Education
Grantmakers for Education, 2015
As in past years, this report draws from a survey of Grantmakers for Education membership that provides a snapshot of giving patterns as well as grantmakers' qualitative impressions of lessons and insights from their work. For the first time, this report has sought out the perspectives of non-members who are active in the field, to help broaden…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Educational Trends, Grantsmanship, Philanthropic Foundations
Grantmakers for Education, 2014
Teachers are critical to the success of education grantmaking strategies, yet in talking with them we discovered that the world of philanthropy is often a mystery. GFE's Toolkit for Teacher Engagement aims to assist funders in authentically and effectively involving teachers in the education reform and innovation process. Built directly from the…
Descriptors: Grants, Educational Finance, Private Financial Support, Teacher Participation
Traphagen, Kathleen – Grantmakers for Education, 2014
It is often noted that children spend most of their waking hours out of school. What they do during non-school hours is important, because access to high-quality learning, both in and out-of-school, is key to cognitive, social-emotional, and physical development. In the United States today, demand for after-school programs outstrips supply: 8.4…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Youth Programs, Surveys, Interviews
Jenkins, Lynn; Wisdom, Michelle – Grantmakers for Education, 2014
As the summer of 2014 began, Paul Herdman, President and CEO of the Rodel Charitable Foundation of Delaware, paused to reflect on what Delaware had accomplished over the past decade in the public education realm. Academic standards had been raised across the K-12 system, and a new assessment system aligned to those standards was being implemented.…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Public Education, Academic Standards, State Standards
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
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
Alvord, Sarah – Grantmakers for Education, 2012
It was 8:45 a.m. on Monday, March 29, 2010, when Paul Herdman got the stunning news. Just two states had won first-round grants in the Race to the Top competition, the largest federal competition of its kind in American history, out of 40 state applicants. Herdman joined the Rodel Foundation of Delaware (Rodel) as President and CEO in 2004. The…
Descriptors: Persistence, Competition, Educational Change, Public Education
Parker, Susan – Grantmakers for Education, 2012
College completion is a priority for federal and state governments as well as policy makers and funders. Yet a major barrier exists for many students seeking college certificates or degrees. The barrier is that more than half of community college students and about one-quarter of students at four-year universities are not well prepared to succeed…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Academic Achievement
Grantmakers for Education, 2011
The Grantmakers for Education (GFE) Institute attracted more than 60 grantmakers from national, corporate, community and family foundations, with interests in systems and programs from early learning through postsecondary completion. And while attendees arrived with diverse experiences and expertise in grantmaking to support policy change, they…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Best Practices
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