Overdeck Family Foundation Awards $10.6 Million in Grants in Q3 2025
In Q3 2025, our foundation awarded grants totaling over $10 million. Here, we highlighted just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support.
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Perspectives - Missing Key to Student Engagement: Teachers’ Time
Teachers’ time is one of the most valuable resources in education. Yet too often, much of it is dedicated to non-student-facing work. Jessica Fredston-Hermann shares three practices school and district leaders can use to help teachers reclaim time to foster deeper student engagement and improve outcomes.
Spotlight On Evidence: Reimagining the Teaching Role by Investing in Strategic Staffing
As schools grapple with increased teacher burnout and stalled student achievement, strategic staffing models may offer a path forward. Meghan McCormick details the current evidence base and our Foundation’s commitment to unlocking evidence to fuel a stronger, more sustainable teaching profession.
Overdeck Family Foundation Awards $32.7 Million in Grants in Q2 2025
In Q2 2025, our foundation awarded 52 grants totaling over $32 million. Here, we highlighted just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support.
Spotlight on Innovation: Reflections on GenAI Investments and Trends in Education
Over the last two years, we’ve made over $13 million in commitments to organizations building, scaling, or learning about AI-powered interventions in Pre-K-12 education. To inform how we pursue genAI investments in 2025 and beyond, we analyzed our grantmaking efforts and trends we’re seeing in the broader landscape. Jon Sotsky shares five reflections from this exercise focused on the progress, challenges, and dynamics we’re observing through the efforts of our grantees and others in the field.
Overdeck Family Foundation Awards $14 Million in Grants in Q2 2024
In Q2 2024, our foundation awarded 34 grants totaling over $14 million. Here, we highlight just some of the direct impact and ecosystem organizations we’re proud to support this quarter.
Q1 2024 Funding Announcement
In Q1 2024, our foundation awarded 53 grants totaling over $14 million. Here, we highlight just some of the organizations we’re proud to support this quarter as we kick off our 2024 grantmaking.