To conduct four focus groups and a nationally representative poll that will lead to a deeper, more actionable understanding of Generation Z interest in and commitment to a wide variety of issues related to 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 support improvements on its technology platform
2022
Education
$3,000,000
Coleridge Initiative Incorporated
To execute a challenge focused on creating innovative, data-driven tools to help show students' trajectories across the education-to-workforce continuum
2022
Education
$250,000
Social Good Fund
To build out a communications and policy advocacy framework to help define a new normal in California post-pandemic
Association for Education Finance and Policy, Inc.
To support the Association for Education Finance and Policy's annual conference and expand its membership to include more policymakers, practitioners and scholars from underrepresented backgrounds
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley
To support The Kidd Lab, a project at UC Berkeley, to conduct research to understand the skillsets and mindsets that promote lifelong learning
2022
Education
$250,000
The Learning Accelerator
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 programming work to increase opportunities for Black youth and build awareness of promising practices to increase social and economic mobility