Bright Spots: Unlocking Innovation
This blog post explores how three organizations—New Jersey Tutoring Corps, Springboard Collaborative, and EiE—embraced disruptions caused by Covid as an opportunity to fuel innovation.
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Bright Spots: Unlocking Evidence
This blog post explores how grantees Saga Education and Teaching Lab pursued critical research using funding from Overdeck Family Foundation.
Bright Spots: Unlocking Growth
This blog post explores how five organizations—Waterford Upstart, Zearn, TalkingPoints, BellXcel, and Public Impact Opportunity Culture—successfully achieved growth in the past year with support from Overdeck Family Foundation.
Celebrating Innovation: Promising Results from Virtual Programs
Learn about three organizations that quickly implemented virtual programs during COVID-19 and now have evidence of impact.
Bright Spots: How EdReports Helped 11 Million Students Gain Access To High-Quality Curriculum
We’ve been proud funders of EdReports since 2017, and are excited to support them with a new grant of $400,000 to help them reach more districts and students across the country.
Bright Spots: Leveraging Tele-Home-Visiting To Reach New Parents During COVID-19
The pandemic has meant the way home visiting services operated in February is not the way they operate today. But the services home visitors, nurses, early intervention specialists, and other family support workers provide remain crucial.
Bright Spots: Celebrating Teachers During COVID-19
To wrap up Teacher Appreciation Month, we celebrate and highlight stories of educators who are playing a critical role in supporting and teaching their students.
Bright Spots: Five Things Schools Thriving During COVID-19 Have in Common
Against all odds, schools, organizations, and the families they support have shown an immense amount of agility and creativity as they adjust to a new, remote normal.
Bright Spots: Lessons from Week One of Remote Learning
Our top five best practices for creating and growing remote learning interventions during and after COVID-19.
Why We Funded: Cross-Grantee Collaboration
Five lessons from funding cross-grantee collaboration projects.