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Our Focus Areas
We partner with education organizations dedicated to accelerating student outcomes across three areas.
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School Readiness

Ensure more children enter kindergarten ready to thrive, setting the trajectory for their futures.

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School Success

Increase the number of kindergarten through eighth grade students demonstrating meaningful growth and proficiency in literacy and math.

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Future Readiness

Help students develop the cognitive skills, meaningful connections, and sense of agency needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

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Our Grantees

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Organization
Description
Grant Amount
Grant Period
Focus Area

Organization

STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum

Description

To advance support for afterschool through technical assistance for state afterschool networks. 

Grant Amount

$230,000

Grant Period

August 1, 2024 -
July 31, 2026

Focus Area

Future Readiness

Organization

STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum

Description

To build dedicated state-level funding streams to increase access to high-quality out-of-school time STEM experiences for more children and to increase investment in out-of-school time science.

Grant Amount

$175,000

Grant Period

August 1, 2023 -
July 31, 2024

Focus Area

Future Readiness

Organization

Students 2 Science

Description

To provide support for Students 2 Science, which provides in-person and virtual hands-on experiences to inspire, motivate, and educate more than 66,000 students to develop skills and pursue careers in STEM. 

Grant Amount

$300,000

Grant Period

October 1, 2025 -
September 30, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Students 2 Science

Description

To provide support for Students 2 Science and its New Jersey programming, which provides in-person and virtual hands-on STEM experience to empower more than 50,000 students to succeed in STEM.

Grant Amount

$300,000

Grant Period

October 1, 2024 -
September 30, 2025

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Students 2 Science

Description

To provide support for Students 2 Science and its New Jersey programming, which provides in-person and virtual hands-on STEM experience to empower more than 50,000 students to succeed in STEM.

Grant Amount

$300,000

Grant Period

October 1, 2023 -
September 30, 2024

Focus Area

Other

Organization

TalkingPoints

Description

To support TalkingPoints to deepen their impact at scale through product innovation and stronger research and data capacity.

Grant Amount

$4,500,000

Grant Period

April 1, 2024 -
March 31, 2027

Focus Area

School Readiness

Organization

Teach Plus

Description

To develop teacher leaders to influence differentiated staffing policy and public perception.

Grant Amount

$700,000

Grant Period

November 1, 2023 -
October 31, 2025

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Teaching Lab

Description

To support Teaching Lab’s AI innovation and continued growth.

Grant Amount

$3,000,000

Grant Period

November 1, 2024 -
October 31, 2026

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Teaching Lab

Description

To scale Teaching Lab by building capacity to deliver high-quality professional learning services.

Grant Amount

$3,570,000

Grant Period

September 1, 2021 -
August 31, 2024

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Teaching Matters

Description

To innovate with AI to make coaching more effective, while testing codified CBPL/coaching model in additional geography.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Grant Period

July 1, 2024 -
June 30, 2025

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Texas Tech University

Description

To fund a study examining the impact of a Texas teacher merit-based pay on student attendance.

Grant Amount

$186,037

Grant Period

September 1, 2024 -
August 31, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

The 74

Description

To expand media coverage of in- and out-of-school STEM programs, practices, and policy.

Grant Amount

$250,000

Grant Period

July 1, 2025 -
June 30, 2027

Focus Area

Other

Organization

The 74

Description

To expand media coverage of in- and out-of-school STEM programs, practices, and policy.

Grant Amount

$125,000

Grant Period

July 1, 2024 -
June 30, 2025

Focus Area

Other

Organization

The 74

Description

To expand media coverage of exceptional STEM programs, practices, and students.

Grant Amount

$100,000

Grant Period

July 1, 2023 -
June 30, 2024

Focus Area

Other

Organization

The ASSISTments Foundation

Description

To support ASSISTments to scale its What Works Clearinghouse Tier 1 daily formative assessment platform.

Grant Amount

$1,500,000

Grant Period

May 1, 2025 -
April 30, 2027

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

The ASSISTments Foundation

Description

To develop a strategic plan for scaling ASSISTments’s What Works Clearinghouse Tier 1 daily formative assessment platform.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Grant Period

May 1, 2024 -
April 30, 2025

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

The Associated Press

Description

To enable the Education Reporting Network to pursue more high-quality coverage of early learning.

Grant Amount

$500,000

Grant Period

August 1, 2024 -
July 31, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

The Associated Press

Description

To enable the Education Reporting Network to pursue more high-quality coverage of early learning.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Grant Period

June 1, 2023 -
July 31, 2024

Focus Area

Other

Organization

The Hechinger Report

Description

To expand media coverage of high-quality early learning environments, including early math learning.

Grant Amount

$350,000

Grant Period

July 1, 2025 -
June 30, 2027

Focus Area

Other

Organization

The Hechinger Report

Description

To expand media coverage of high-quality early learning environments, including early math learning.

Grant Amount

$300,000

Grant Period

July 1, 2023 -
June 30, 2025

Focus Area

Other

Organization

The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles

Description

To evaluate the impact of PTHV on elementary and middle schoolers’ attendance and chronic absenteeism through a large-scale QED.

Grant Amount

$333,000

Grant Period

November 1, 2024 -
October 31, 2027

Focus Area

School Readiness

Organization

The Research Alliance for New York City Schools

Description

To fund a study examining the impact of Saga’s virtual tutoring model on student math achievement, identify the key implementation conditions predictive of impact, and estimate the average cost for providing tutoring to each student.

Grant Amount

$280,000

Grant Period

April 1, 2025 -
September 30, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

The Wildflower Foundation

Description

To support Wildflower's continued expansion of the New Jersey ecosystem of decentralized Montessori micro-schools that support children, teachers, and parents. 

Grant Amount

$60,000

Grant Period

October 1, 2023 -
September 30, 2024

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Tools of the Mind

Description

To scale Tools of the Mind by supporting product innovation and improving capabilities for sales, marketing, and impact evaluation.

Grant Amount

$2,500,000

Grant Period

June 1, 2024 -
May 31, 2026

Focus Area

School Readiness

Organization

Tools of the Mind

Description

To scale Tools of the Mind by improving capabilities for sales, marketing, and impact evaluation.

Grant Amount

$1,525,500

Grant Period

June 1, 2022 -
May 31, 2024

Focus Area

School Readiness

Organization

Transcend

Description

To create and share a report with community-based insights on the future of AI.

Grant Amount

$75,000

Grant Period

July 1, 2025 -
June 30, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Transcend

Description

To support Transcend to improve its measurement, evaluation, and learning capabilities.

Grant Amount

$1,050,000

Grant Period

November 1, 2024 -
October 31, 2027

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Transcend

Description

To advance fieldwide knowledge and adoption of innovative student-centered learning environments.

Grant Amount

$66,750

Grant Period

November 1, 2023 -
October 31, 2024

Focus Area

School Success
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