Grants Database
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Year
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Programs
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Amount
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Location
 
State Higher Education Executive Officers Association
            To continue its FAFSA simplification convenings for state financial aid agencies
                            
                $120,000
                    
Steppenwolf Theater Co.
            To commission Joyce Awards Alumnus Tarell Alvin McCraney to develop a new play entitled Windfall
                            
                $100,000
                    
Surge Institute
            For its Chicago fellowship program that supports the development of Black and Latino education policy leaders
                            
                $150,000
                    
Sustain Equity Group
            To support its work to engage and elevate Black women and girls in the gun violence prevention movement
                            
                $100,000
                    
Swipe Out Hunger
            To support advocacy in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio to improve college students’ food security
                            
                $80,000
                    
Teach for America Inc. - Michigan
            To create and implement a policy and advocacy agenda to strengthen the teacher workforce in Michigan, especially in high-poverty schools
                            
                $200,000
                    
Teach Plus Incorporated
            To run its Illinois and Indiana teacher policy fellowships and produce policy briefs on accountability, innovative staffing models, literacy, and school improvement
                            
                $550,000
                    
Teachers College, Columbia University
            To support the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms and its upcoming research conferences in 2024 and 2025, and to support new strategic planning for the Research Society
                            
                $230,000
                    
Temple University
            For its Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice to convene a national coalition on student basic needs, educate federal policy makers about opportunities to improve college students' food security, and develop a report on lessons learned from state policy efforts in Minnesota and Michigan
                            
                $200,000
                    
The 74 Media Inc.
            For in-depth reporting on challenges to the American education system, including the pending cliff in federal COVID recovery funding, learning loss and recovery, and impacts on the teaching workforce
                            
                $100,000
                    
The Aspen Institute Inc.
            To build a bipartisan coalition focused on a new raft of education policies to improve outcomes for young people of color and those from marginalized communities
                            
                $375,000
                    
The Aspen Institute Inc.
            To support the development of the Justice Audit prototype in Grand Rapids, Michigan
                            
                $200,000
                    
The Bridgespan Group Inc.
            To help funders determine what is needed to build a more robust policy and advocacy ecosystem in Chicago, as the district moves to an elected school board
                            
                $150,000