To advance community-driven educational change in Catalytic Communities and to research and publish a national report identifying the practices in schools that change students' academic trajectories.
To support the development of a new tool that helps synthesize, tranlate, and disseminate research in ways that help K-12 school district leaders make better decisions regarding instructional materials and supports for students.
To support the Launching Equitable and Accelerated Pathways in providing technical assistance to up to 13 state teams to design and launch equitable new pathways solutions.
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
Oceana, Inc.
To support sustainable fisheries management in Chile to protect and promote a healthy ocean.
