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Grantmakers for Education, 2006
Gaps in academic achievement between students from various racial and ethnic groups and from low-income families are a cause for national concern. The advent of high stakes testing and the increased awareness of high dropout rates have rekindled the search for ways to help all children succeed in school. Many strategies to address lagging…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Ethnic Groups, Systems Approach
Adams, Nicole; Etter, Tashina; Hernandez, Sarah – Grantmakers for Education, 2006
American Indian education has an important place in U.S. education, and grantmakers can form lasting relationships with indigenous communities that will have a broad impact on not only Native education, but on education in the U.S. as a whole. These relationships can yield transformational change in Indian communities and can be rewarding for…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, American Indians, American Indian Education, Tribally Controlled Education
Grantmakers for Education, 2006
To provide an even more intensive learning experience at Grantmakers for Education's 2006 conference, the program featured a conference "study group." This special small-group program track focused on foundation strategy and the value of a well-crafted theory of change for increasing strategic clarity and impact. This report is intended to make…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Philanthropic Foundations, Grants, Private Financial Support
Grantmakers for Education, 2004
For much of the past 20 years, philanthropists have invested significant time, money and knowledge into the important task of improving the nation's education system. Collectively, their efforts have targeted all aspects of the system--from helping teachers upgrade their skills and knowledge to creating better curricula and classroom tools, from…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Change, Private Financial Support, Change Agents
Grantmakers for Education, 2005
Increasingly, foundations are choosing to engage in public policy debates as a way of leveraging their investments and increasing their impact in advancing improvements community-wide, statewide or nationally. For foundations, influencing public policy decisions can happen in different ways: funding policy research and dissemination, building…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Public Policy, Change Strategies, Organizational Change
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