Grants Database
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Year
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Programs
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Amount
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Location
 
Teach Plus Incorporated
            To improve teacher quality policies in Indiana and Illinois
                            
                $425,000
                    
Teachers College, Columbia University
            To fund the Hechinger Report for in-depth news coverage of higher education issues in Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota and Ohio
                            
                $200,000
                    
The Aspen Institute Inc
            To continue its national effort to advance policies aimed at increasing educator effectiveness by building strong professional learning conditions for teachers in schools
                            
                $450,000
                    
The Brookings Institution
            To identify the best state and federal policy path for regional public universities, which are experiencing growing financial precariousness
                            
                $150,000
                    
The Center for Michigan
            To support expanded key issues coverage and environmental reporting at the Bridge Magazine
                            
                $300,000
                    
The Chicago Community Trust
            To support the Chicagoland Workforce Funder Alliance and the pooled fund to scale apprenticeship
                            
                $400,000
                    
The Columbus Partnership
            To incubate and launch a business-oriented education advocacy group to improve P-20 outcomes in Ohio
                            
                $200,000
                    
The Institute for College Access and Success
            To develop novel federal and state policy proposals to increase college completion for low-income and minority students
                            
                $250,000
                    
The Saint Paul Foundation
            To support MSPWIn, the Twin Cities funder collaborative and its exploration of post-secondary state policy work
                            
                $150,000
                    
The Surge Institute
            To build a pipeline of African American and Latino executive leaders in education reform
                            
                $200,000
                    
The University of Texas at Austin
            For a research study examining college students' attitudes about guns to develop lessons for intervention
                            
                $316,181
                    
Thrive Chicago NFP
            To continue and deepen its work to reduce summer melt in Chicago
                            
                $250,000
                    
Tides Foundation
            For the Chicago Police Department to pilot new technology to measure community sentiment
                            
                $100,000
                    
Trace Media Inc.
            For continuation of its reporting project on gun violence in the Great Lakes region
                            
                $300,000
                    
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
            For its Justice Lab to organize and convene a Square One Future of Justice Policy Roundtable, focused on addressing violence in criminal justice reform
                            
                $200,000
                    
UnidosUS
            To create and advance a postsecondary policy agenda to improve outcomes for Latino students
                            
                $250,000