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