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 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 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
2022
Education
$1,000,000
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, Inc.
To grow the pipeline of influential Black leaders in the K-12 sector who will organize and mobilize new coalitions of advocates to advance equity and opportunity in education
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 leading states and districts, curriculum publishers, subject matter experts and measurement scholars to create innovative, curriculum-connected assessments that could dramatically change the state summative assessment system
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
To support Duckworth Lab to develop and validate the Necessities Index, an assessment of the conditions required for adolescents to thrive socially, emotionally and academically; and evaluate and scale Grit Lab 101, a program designed to improve adolescents skillsets and mindsets around perseverance to achieve long-term goals