The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, Inc.
To build support for modernizing Massachusetts's state longitudinal data system.
2023
Education
$200,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc.
To launch and manage the Learning Engineer Virtual Institute, a new model for Education R&D designed to create technology-enabled solutions that can double the rate of low-income, middle school students' math learning.
To support a pilot cohort of school districts to create a competency-based assessment system.
2023
Education
$199,613
President and Fellows of Harvard College
To support a suite of studies on long-term drivers of student achievement both within schools and beyond the classroom, including research on social capital, civic outcomes, drivers of long-term increases in test scores, and charters.
To pilot a training program for grantees in Catalytic Communities to leverage diverse sources of capital to improve community outcomes.
2023
Education
$123,912
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation
To advance community-driven change through a targeted strategic planning process and the creation of a community-driven equity fund to impact opportunity for youth in Utah.
2023
Education
$144,261
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc.
To conduct research, build coalitions and provide thought leadership on K-12 education in America with a specific focus on the expansion of education opportunity, innovation and state leadership.
To support the development of Catalytic Communities Exchange, which will match grantees and partners in up to 10 identified communities to capacity-building and technical assistance providers poised to meet identified needs.
2023
Education
$508,750
Kids First Chicago for Education
To accelerate and expand the influence of its parent-led model for educational change.
To support evaluation and planning for a $20 million fund aimed at providing loans to nonprofit organizations that are developing high-quality K-12 curriculum and educational assessment resources.
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
To support research and communications investigating and describing the relationship between public education and upward mobility and how this contributes to the creation of thriving communities.
To support parent advocacy training, collective programming to improve student outcomes, and sustainability planning to build the foundation for the coalition's longer-term change efforts.
To support their efforts to elevate diverse voices across Colorado, including those of Black faith communities, on education issues impacting students and families.
To manage a new grant program focused on solutions that better connect families and learners to innovative education options and learning experiences that offer greater value and flexibility.
To incubate 40 diverse entrepreneurs to develop and launch education ventures through the Camelback Fellowship
and to convene communications and thought leaders and influential funding partners at the Guardian Summit.
