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Adjusting Our Grantmaking To Meet the Moment

In response to COVID-19 and grantee feedback, we updated our grantmaking to be more transparent and streamlined, focusing on understanding and meeting community needs more than ever before.

Keanna Marshall, a City Year team leader works with a student in a school in Tulsa, OK, in 2017. Image via Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report

August News Roundup

In this roundup, we highlight some of the impactful work our grantees and Foundation staff accomplished in August 2020.

July News Roundup

In this roundup, we highlight some of the impactful work our grantees and Foundation staff accomplished in July 2020.

Danielle Gandy with her daughters Madison, 15, and Cadynce, 6. Assessing their remote education, Ms. Gandy said “it’s maybe a fraction of what they would be learning if they were in an actual school setting.”Credit...Kendrick Brinson for The New York Times

June News Roundup

In this roundup, we highlight some of the impactful work our grantees and Foundation staff accomplished in June 2020.