Grants Database
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Year
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Programs
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Amount
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Location
Center for American Progress
To conduct public policy research on segregation in higher education, local financing of community colleges, and race-conscious admissions
$150,000
Center for American Progress
To create and advocate for a new education policy agenda focused on educational equity for low-income students and students of color
$150,000
Chalkbeat
To cover education issues that affect students and educators in these geographies
$250,000
Children First Fund the Chicago Public Schools Foundation
To power Teach Chicago, an initiative to build an effective, diverse educator workforce, especially in hard-to-staff schools
$450,000
Colorado State University Foundation
To investigate ideas that would reorient college admissions to promote race and income representativeness
$76,276
Community College Baccalaureate Association Inc
To support dissemination of best practices about community college baccalaureate programs
$30,000
ConnectEd The California Center for College and Career
To lead a final phase of Joyce' Great Lakes College and Career Pathways Partnership
$575,000
Editorial Projects in Education
To support coverage of school leadership in Education Week, the nation' premiere K–12 news source
$100,000
Education First Consulting LLC
To help build partnerships between teacher prep programs and the Minneapolis, Indianapolis, and Chicago public school districts, and build a community of practice among the district talent officers
$565,000
Education Strategy Group
To partner with communities across the Great Lakes region to improve work-based learning systems and develop joint K–12/higher education state strategies to improve students' transition into and through college
$250,000
Education Writers Association
To build the capacity of journalists reporting on education and college and career readiness issues in the Great Lakes region
$240,000
Educators for Excellence
To mobilize teachers and elevate their voices in education policy conversations
$375,000
Georgetown University
For its Center on Poverty and Inequality to propose revised federal policy on refundable tax credits, including EITC, and to revisit mechanisms for advance periodic payments of those tax credits
$75,000
Golden Apple Foundation for Excellence in Teaching
To help launch theGolden Apple Accelerators
$75,000
Hopewell Fund
To support advocacy towards dramatically expanded Earned Income Tax Credits in the Great Lakes and at the federal level
$322,000