To advance community-driven educational change in Catalytic Communities and to research and publish a national report to identify the practices in schools that change students' academic trajectories
To support the provision of loans to nonprofit organizations that are developing high-quality instructional materials for K-12 students and/or providing aligned supports to teachers and school districts to effectively implement curricula and other educational resources in order to improve student outcomes
2022
Education
$5,000,000
New Venture Fund
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
Arizona State University Foundation for A New American University
To support the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), housed within Arizona State University's (ASU) Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, to execute multi-year research and thought leadership projects and to design and run a new innovative grants program
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 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
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
The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, Inc.
To implement a subgrants program to support the MyVillage Project and member organizations' vision for transformational educational change in Jacksonville and pilot communities across Florida
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