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…
Working together, organizations will launch coordinated effort to advance programs and policies focused on early years in life when rapid periods of brain development are critical for later success WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 17, 2017) — Research consistently shows that the most rapid period of brain development is in the first years of life, when a baby’s…
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…
KOMU-TV Channel 8 The Cradle to Career alliance shared its annual community report card at a luncheon Monday at the Stoney Creek Inn. Cradle to Career Alliance is a part of Strive Together, a national nonprofit network of more than 70 community partnerships in 36 states. The alliance was started in Boone County a few…
Politico The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Ford Foundation are investing $1.5 million to bolster “student-centered learning” through a competitive grant program that will award up to $150,000 to 10 school districts or communities of schools. The grant program will be administered by three organizations — the Coalition for Community Schools, Communities in Schools and…
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…
National organizations align networks to launch Students at the Center Community Challenge WASHINGTON, D.C. — Imagine a school where children are at the center of their education experience, with the support of the entire community behind them. This vision of student-centered learning drives the work of three national nonprofit organizations aligning their networks to achieve better…
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…