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WAMC Northeast Public Radio There’s a national network of local, nonprofit organizations working together to guide a student’s education and improve their outcomes from the time they start learning to the time they start earning. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll learn about the StriveTogether Network, and hear how they want to create…
Norwalk’s Hamlet Hub Norwalk ACTS is proud to receive a grant from Antares Capital in support of its community work aimed at enriching and improving the lives and futures of all Norwalk children and youth, cradle to career. The partnership with Antares Capital began last November with an initial financial investment and has grown to…
Inside Philanthropy There’s been a lot of movement in the early childhood learning space in the last few years. While some funders have scaled national initiatives, most projects still happen on the local level, like the work the Kenneth Rainin Foundation does in Oakland and the William Penn Foundation does in Philadelphia. Even some funders…
Education Week Several national organizations are coming together to work on increasing kindergarten readiness for children from birth to age 3. The National Association of Counties, National League of Cities, Center for the Study of Social Policy, National Institute for Children’s Health Quality and StriveTogether are partnering to focus on what medical professionals say is…
The Washington Post Mayors, new and old, are best positioned to build these new systems and become the face of this growing “new localism” in education and human capital development. Cities such as Oakland, Louisville, and Providence, and leaders such as Mayor Libby Schaaf, Mayor Greg Fischer, and Mayor Jorge Elorza, are working with a…
Dallas News Steve Ballmer and his wife, Connie, have been very deliberate — and quiet — in stepping into big-time philanthropy. But the former Microsoft chief executive has a big checkbook, with a net worth of around $30 billion, and he is ready to take on a big challenge: intergenerational poverty. Read more
Inside Philanthropy Mark Zuckerberg’s education philanthropy has come a long way since his $100 million investment in Newark public schools in 2010. The latest K-12 gift from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the organization that Zuck and Priscilla Chan created two years ago, underscores the couple’s commitment to personalized learning and embraces a community-led approach, one…
Inside Philanthropy When I first started paying attention to philanthropy in the mid-1990s it was a relatively calm — if not sleepy — world. Large-scale grantmaking was dominated by a set of legacy foundations that had been around for decades. And while they were often trying new things, the pace of change tended to be…
Education Week The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Ford Foundation are teaming up with three national organizations that promote whole-child initiatives for a new program that will award up to $150,000 each to 10 communities that propose new ideas for meeting the needs of diverse student populations. “This approach emphasizes the needs and interests of…
Dallas News Steve Ballmer has gobs of money. The former Microsoft CEO is one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of around $30 billion. He also wants all children in the United States to have economic mobility. But he’s not willing to throw his wealth around in hopes of finding…
Philanthropy News Digest StriveTogether, a national nonprofit working to improve the lives of children and youth from kindergarten through college and beyond, has announced a pledge of up to $60 million over six years from the Ballmer Group in support of the organization’s efforts to reduce racial and socioeconomic disparities nationwide. The commitment from former…
Chronicle of Philanthropy Steve and Connie Ballmer are giving $60 million over six years for a new program created by StriveTogether, a national nonprofit that seeks to improve education for low-income children. Mr. Ballmer, the former chief executive of Microsoft, and his wife are giving the money through the Ballmer Group, a grant maker they…