To support expansion of Ignite Professional Studies to add two new pathway programs (Industrial Design and Maintenance and Aviation- Air Mobility), additional students to the Health Sciences pathway, new classroom space, and career coaching
To support home ownership, workforce and small business initiatives in the Arkansas-Mississippi Delta region, which include Coahoma County (MS) and Jefferson and Phillips Counties (AR)
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 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
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 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 agricultural conservation practices in Iowa that improve water quality to forge a clean and resilient river so people and nature can thrive together