The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research, Inc.
To launch the Cooney Learning Lab, which will allow education product developers to co-design new products directly with youth, helping ensure these products meet their needs and ultimately improve their learning outcomes
2022
Education
$260,000
Driving Force Group, Inc.
To subgrant to awardees of an RFP seeking to identify community engagement innovators and potential partners for innovation across the country
To support the COVID-19 School Data Hub (CSDH), which aims to provide comprehensive data on the learning models utilized by American public K-12 schools in order to address open questions about both short- and long- term impacts of school closures and remote learning
To support a fellowship for early career researchers and evaluators in the field of philanthropic evaluation and learning in partnership with higher education
To support operational capacity building that will support the organization in better engaging current and future participants in its leadership development programming
2022
Education
$22,000
Johns Hopkins University
To conduct a review of literature and a landscape of evaluation and measurement opportunities in K-12 education related to community engagement and empowerment, grassroots advocacy and catalytic change