To seed the Colorado Pay It Forward Fund which provides innovative, student-centric and outcomes-focused financing for workforce training and upskilling for low-income Coloradans through partnerships with highly-vetted training programs.
2023
Education
$1,000,000
Southern Education Foundation, Inc.
To provide resources and training to school districts so they improve student outcomes through outcomes-based contracting with vendors of programs and products like tutoring services, education technology programs, and curriculum.
2023
Education
$800,703
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
To support a new charter school research collaborative that will equip policymakers, funders and the research community with rigorous, policy-relevant evidence on charter school performance and long-term outcomes.
To support an ambitious collective action agenda to strengthen the education-to-work ecosystem to improve economic opportunities and mobility for students in the D.C. metro area.
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 an ambitious collective action agenda to strengthen the education-to-work ecosystem to improve economic opportunities and mobility for students in the DC metro area
To manage an assessment track in the second round of the Tools Competition, designed to support the creation of technological tools that will reduce the time and cost of assessments
To educate and inform funders, innovators, policy makers and system leaders seeking to reinvent secondary and postsecondary education to align with the future of work and changes in workforce needs
To increase the number of Denver youth participating in high-quality career pathways, improve data sharing and transparency and support an enabling environment for permeable career pathways
