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Grantmakers for Education, 2010
College attainment rates are increasing in every industrialized and post-industrialized nation in the world--except America. Stagnating postsecondary graduation rates in the United States leave millions of Americans cut off from economic prosperity and impede our nation's ability to compete globally. Education philanthropy, which has long worked…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Politics of Education, Private Financial Support, Graduation Rate
Bearman, Jessica – Grantmakers for Education, 2010
"Benchmarking 2010" offers insights into the current priorities, practices and concerns of education grantmakers. The report is divided into five sections: (1) Mapping the Education Grantmaking Landscape; (2) 2010 Funding Priorities; (3) Strategies for Leveraging Greater Impact; (4) Identifying Significant Trends in Education Funding; and (5)…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Private Financial Support, Grants, Grantsmanship
Mackinnon, Anne – Grantmakers for Education, 2009
"No education grantmaker can afford to ignore public policy. Local, state and federal policies shape the context in which we work by establishing education standards, allocating resources and setting priorities for people working in education." So begins the report on Grantmakers for Educations' 2005 Grantmakers Institute, Foundation…
Descriptors: Faculty, Educational Change, Public Policy, Global Approach
Bearman, Jessica; Kilgore, Gin – Grantmakers for Education, 2009
"Benchmarking 2009: Trends in Education Philanthropy" is Grantmakers for Education's (GFE) second annual study of grantmaking trends and priorities among members. As a national network dedicated to improving education outcomes through philanthropy, GFE members are mindful of their role in fostering greater knowledge in the field. They believe it's…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Private Financial Support, Public Policy, Grants
Clayton, Tonika Cheek – Grantmakers for Education, 2008
Confronting two unhealthy approaches that surface frequently in philanthropy--the tendency for grantmakers to think they alone have all the answers and the tensions that arise when national and local funders try to work together--this case study is intended to help grantmakers think more deeply about the concept of "engaged partners," one of…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Community Colleges, Private Financial Support, Academic Achievement
Cheng, Tiffany K. – Grantmakers for Education, 2008
Operated as a pair of philanthropic funds, the Hyde Family Foundations works to improve the quality of life in Memphis. In order to counteract persistent socioeconomic and racial barriers and improve opportunities for underserved families in Memphis, the foundations have made improving the city's education system a priority of its grantmaking.…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Quality of Life, Leadership, Nonprofit Organizations
Grantmakers for Education, 2008
In today's climate of accountability, many grantmakers struggle to determine the impact of the activities they support. This report seeks to summarize and make available much of the information from a special member briefing Grantmakers for Education organized to help funders--especially those from foundations with modest budgets--confront this…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Philanthropic Foundations, Grants, Private Financial Support
Grantmakers for Education, 2008
Through Grantmakers for Education's (GFE's) "Benchmarking 2008" research report, the researchers sought to make the act of sharing among GFE members as easy and worthwhile as possible. The researchers started with an online survey, which was completed by education grantmakers from more than 150 organizations. They analyzed their responses for…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Benchmarking, Private Financial Support, Online Surveys
Mackinnon, Anne – Grantmakers for Education, 2007
A key part of Grantmakers for Education's program portfolio to improve education philanthropy, the biannual Education Grantmakers Institute provides an especially unique and effective venue for strengthening the skills and knowledge of grantmakers. Held at a leading academic institution, the Institute includes noted scholars and researchers…
Descriptors: Leadership Effectiveness, Instructional Leadership, Private Financial Support, Grants
Mackinnon, Anne – Grantmakers for Education, 2007
In late 2006, the National Center on Education and the Economy released "Tough Choices or Tough Times: The Report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce." With compelling language, the report updated and sharpened the findings of the center's influential 1990 report, "America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages," which called…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development
King, Caroline – Grantmakers for Education, 2006
The Chicago Public Education Fund operates as a venture philanthropy: It raises capital from individual and institutional donors and then provides grant funding and direct, hands-on assistance to grantees. With a grantmaking budget totaling $25 million between 2000 and 2008, it seeks to recruit and develop high-potential new teachers and aspiring…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Education, Private Financial Support, Master Teachers
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
Mackinnon, Anne – Grantmakers for Education, 2006
The Donors' Education Collaborative of New York (DEC) began with a scene more typical of politics than philanthropy: five foundation presidents in a room, trying to figure out what to do for a city that had fallen on hard times in the early 1990s. They investigated specific topics--such as the public hospital system and school governance…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Governance, Cooperation, Educational Change
Sherwood, Kay E. – Grantmakers for Education, 2006
This case study explores the sustained role the Annie E. Casey Foundation played for more than a decade to help create an environment in which an ambitious and comprehensive effort to improve public education for all children in Kentucky would have the time, resources and attention needed to prove its worth. As the case describes, the sweeping…
Descriptors: Persistence, Children, Public Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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
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