To support Launching Equitable and Accelerated Pathways (LEAP) in providing technical assistance to up to 13 state teams to design and launch equitable new pathways solutions
To advocate for an education system designed to deliver the experiences, pathways and tools for young people to learn how to live self-determined lives of passion and purpose
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
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 support the development of Catalytic Communities Exchange, which will match WFF grantees and partners in up to 10 identified communities to capacity-building and technical assistance providers poised to meet identified needs
Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education
To convene and engage a diverse range of Tennessee education stakeholders to sustain and successfully implement student-focused policies and identify and champion new and innovative policy solutions to challenges facing students in the state
To bring together K-12 system leaders (district and charter) and education providers to examine how innovative pandemic-era virtual and hybrid models can advance and scale high-quality, customized learning experiences in partnership with families
To support locally-focused, parent-led advocacy efforts and coalition building at the state and national levels and increase its communications capacity and effectiveness
Indianapolis Private Industry Council, Inc. dba EmployIndy
To increase the number of youth participating in learning models, improve the ability of programs to measure impact and ensure policies are in place to create an enabling environment for career-connected learning and permeable career pathways
2022
Education
$850,000
Colorado Nonprofit Development Center
To increase the number of Denver youth participating in high-quality career pathways, improve data sharing and transparency and support an enabling environment for permeable career pathways
To support an ambitious collective action agenda to strengthen the education-to-work ecosystem to improve economic opportunities and mobility for students in the DC metro area
To manage an assessment track in the second round of the Tools Competition, designed to support the creation of technological tools that will reduce the time and cost of assessments
To support the next phase of the High-Quality Instructional Materials and Professional Development (IMPD) Network − a network supporting 13 states working to provide access to high-quality curriculum and aligned supports to every teacher and student in their state
To educate and inform funders, innovators, policy makers and system leaders seeking to reinvent secondary and postsecondary education to align with the future of work and changes in workforce needs
2022
Education
$800,000
Common Sense Media
To support state and federal policy, advocacy and research aimed at closing the digital divide
