To organize and host a national convening to highlight and share promising practices and common pain points with implementing new competency-based and student-centered assessment systems
To award grants to messengers focused on elevating the programs, policies and people improving academic and life outcomes for children
2022
Education
$300,000
Faithbridge
To support their efforts to elevate diverse voices across Colorado, including those of Black faith communities, on education issues impacting students and families
2022
Education
$250,000
Murmuration Research Institute, Inc.
To conduct research on Gen Z attitudes that will inform political discourse for the next two years
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
To provide technical assistance to 60 grantee communities selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce and its Economic Development Administration for the Build Back Better Regional Challenge competitive grant program
To support strategic planning and capacity building as the organization establishes itself as a leading voice for apprenticeship programs nationwide
2022
Education
$150,000
Education Reimagined
To explore how communities and states can create ecosystems where learning does not just happen at school and develop a strategy to raise, organize and direct the kind of significant funding that will be necessary to fund new ways of organizing, supporting and credentialing learning
To launch and manage the Learning Engineer Virtual Institute (LEVI), 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 launch Choose Kindness, an initiative to help students build the mindsets needed to grow and thrive
2022
Education
$150,000
Cambiar Education
To manage a new competition for funding to surface assessment solutions that provide families and caregivers with more truthful, meaningful and actionable information about their child's education