Gates Foundation Grants to Select Education and Policy Groups



Gates Foundation Grants to Select Education and Policy Groups

Retrieved by Mercedes Schneider on August 26, 2013, from

National Governors Association

Date: March 2012

Purpose: to support effective implementation of the Common Core State Standards through the development and dissemination of an official set of identifiers and metadata

Amount: $37,674

Date: February 2011

Purpose: to work with state policymakers on the implementation of the Common Core State Standards, with special attention to effective resource reallocation to ensure complete execution, as well as rethinking state policies on teacher effectiveness

Amount: $1,598,477

Date: November 2009

Purpose: to build capacity and awareness among governors around postsecondary goals

Amount: $512,197

Date: May 2008

Purpose: to help governors improve college and career ready rates and make state education systems internationally competitive

Amount: $2,496,814

Date: December 2005

Purpose: to support the State Early Childhood Policy Leadership Forum

Amount: $62,000

Date: March 2005

Purpose: to provide states with grants and assistance to develop and implement comprehensive plans for high school redesign and increase college-ready high school graduation rates

Amount: $19,658,214

Date: September 2004

Purpose: to support NGA Initiative: "Redesigning the American High School"

Amount: $187,435

Date: September 2004

Purpose: to support NGA Initiative: "Redesigning the American High School"

Amount: $511,658

Date: October 2003

Purpose: to support creation of a coherent system of education pathways that lead students through at least the second year of college

Amount: $382,918

Date: November 2002

Purpose: to support a one-day meeting to prepare a publication focusing on turning around low-performing high schools to be presented at the NGA's Winter Meeting

Amount: $30,000

Date: May 2002

Purpose: to support changes needed to transform high school education in the United States

Amount: $275,515

Achieve, Inc.

Date: June 2012

Purpose: to strengthen and expand the ADP Network, provide more support to states for CCSS implementation, and build strategic national and statewide alliances by engaging directly with key stakeholders

Amount: $9,297,699

Date: April 2012

Purpose: for general operating support

Amount: $3,500,000

Date: November 2011

Purpose: to bolster efforts to support national and state strategies to adopt, implement and sustain college and career-ready policies

Amount: $375,000

Date: February 2008

Purpose: to support Achieve's American Diploma Project

Amount: $12,614,352

Date: October 2005

Purpose: to help states align secondary school math expectations with the demands of postsecondary education and work

Amount: $2,148,910

Date: May 2004

Purpose: to assist and encourage specific states to adopt high school graduation requirements that align with college entry requirements

Amount: $7,747,861

Date: September 2001

Purpose: to support the National Education Summit in Palisades, NY on October 9-10, 2001

Amount: $25,000

Date: October 1999

Purpose: to support comprehensive benchmarking and review of academic standards and assessments between states

Amount: $1,000,000

Student Achievement Partners

Date: June 2012

Purpose: to support teachers nationwide in understanding and implementing the Common Core State Standards

Amount: $4,042,920

Date: June 2012

Purpose: to grow capacity to support teachers and to strengthen operations

Amount: $2,490,430

Council of Chief State School Officers

Date: July 2013

Purpose: to CCSSO, on behalf of the PARCC and SBAC consortia to support the development of high quality assessments to measure the Common Core State Standards

Amount: $4,000,000

Date: June 2013

Purpose: to support the Council of Chief State School Officers’ Institute for Transition and Transformation Services partnership with the NJ DOE to support the state’s efforts to support high quality implementation of the Common Core of State Standards

Amount: $799,825

Date: April 2013

Purpose: to support a multi-state pilot on education preparation

Amount: $703,737

Date: November 2012

Purpose: to support the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in helping States’ to build their data inoperability capability and IT leadership capacity

Amount: $1,277,648

Date: October 2012

Purpose: to support strategic planning for the sustainability of the Common Core State Standards and the two multi-state assessment consortia tasked with designing assessments aligned with those standards

Amount: $1,100,000

Date: December 2011

Purpose: to support NGLC Impact Strategies

Amount: $400,381

Date: June 2011

Purpose: to support the Common Core State Standards work

Amount: $9,388,911

Date: March 2011

Purpose: to support capacity building at SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) regarding assessment framework development and higher education engagement

Amount: $743,331

Date: January 2011

Purpose: to assist with the design of Wave 2 of the Next Generation Learning Challenges, marketing it to the field, recruiting applicants and advisors, and processing applications

Amount: $289,899

Date: July 2010

Purpose: to assist with the design of the digital learning initiative, market it to the field, recruit applicants and advisors, and process applications

Amount: $64,628

Date: November 2009

Purpose: to partner with federal, state, public, and private interests to develop common, open, longitudinal data standards

Amount: $3,185,750

Date: July 2009

Purpose: to increase the leadership capacity of chiefs by focusing on standards and assessments, data systems, educator development and determining a new system of supports for student learning

Amount: $9,961,842

Date: March 2007

Purpose: to support Phase II of the National Education Data Partnership seeking to promote transparency and accessibility of education data and improve public education through data-driven decision making

Amount: $21,642,317

Date: October 2005

Purpose: to support technical assistance and research-based information to NGA Honor States pursuing high school redesign efforts

Amount: $201,312

Date: April 2004

Purpose: to provide states with sophisticated, web-based data tools that will strengthen accountability and improve results through data-driven decision making

Amount: $25,000,000

Date: July 2003

Purpose: to support activities of CCSSO around educational issues, particularly related to secondary school reform

Amount: $249,000

Date: May 2002

Purpose: to support a working conference on using the 'No Child Left Behind Act' to improve achievement of students in the middle grades

Amount: $25,000

National Congress of Parents and Teachers

Date: May 2013

Purpose: to educate parents and communities on the new standards and to empower leaders to create the changes they need in their school systems for Common Core implementation

Amount: $499,962

Date: November 2009

Purpose: to support implementation of a strategic plan for national PTAs to promote college-readiness, and higher student performance outcomes

Amount: $2,000,000

Date: October 2008

Purpose: for general operating support

Amount: $5,000

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Date: July 2013

Purpose: to support implementation of the Common Core State Standards

Amount: $244,733

Date: February 2011

Purpose: to provide teachers and school leaders with supports to implement the Common Core State Standards at the district, school, and classroom levels

Amount: $3,024,695

Thomas B Fordham Institute

Date: April 2013

Purpose: for general operating support

Amount: $1,000,000

Date: June 2011

Purpose: for general operating support

Amount: $500,000

Date: January 2011

Purpose: to track state progress towards implementation of standards and to understand how what students read changes in response to the standards

Amount: $1,002,000

Date: October 2009

Purpose: to review the common core standards and develop supportive materials

Amount: $959,116

Date: June 2009

Purpose: to support the PIE Network which brings together policy research groups and state-level education advocacy organizations to advance equity, improve student achievement, share best practices and capture lessons learned

Amount: $398,534

Date: July 2008

Purpose: to support the activities of an emerging network of state level education advocacy organizations in support of a convening around strategic issues

Amount: $155,000

Date: August 2006

Purpose: to support creation of a new education policy network promoting equitable education reform

Amount: $100,000

Date: July 2005

Purpose: to support the Fordham Foundation in its role as a community school sponsor in Ohio to recruit other high school developers and to share best practices across the field

Amount: $1,849,173

Date: July 2005

Purpose: to inform public debate and advance academic achievement in Ohio charter schools by convening charter school leaders, producing research, and disseminating information on charter school issues

Amount: $497,639

Date: July 2003

Purpose: to strengthen Ohio's charter school program by recruiting, training, and supporting quality sponsors for existing and future charter schools

Amount: $250,000

American Enterprise Institute

Date: June 2012

Purpose: to support their education policy work in four distinct areas: Exploring the Challenges of Common Core, Future of American Education Working Groups, Innovations in Financial Aid, and Bridging K-12 and Higher Ed with Technology

Amount: $1,068,788

Date: October 2011

Purpose: to support original research and analysis to influence the national education debates and create a supportive policy environment for reform to improve the efficiency and productivity of higher education

Amount: $445,496

Date: April 2009

Purpose: to support original research and analysis to influence the national education debates and create a supportive policy environment for dynamic reform

Amount: $2,144,000

Date: November 2007

Purpose: to provide original research and analysis to influence the national education debate and create a supportive policy environment for dynamic reform

Amount: $500,000

Brookings Institute

Date: May 2013

Purpose: to conduct efforts to summarize the work of the Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery (RADD) project to date

Amount: $77,271

Date: November 2011

Purpose: to establish standards for rating teacher evaluation systems

Amount: $494,826

Date: September 2011

Purpose: to examine personalized learning, real-time student assessment, collaboration and social networking, dashboards, and K-12 innovation success stories with the goal of evaluating progress, improving implementation, and sharing best practices

Amount: $600,000

Date: June 2011

Purpose: to support the Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty to address aid and development effectiveness issues

Amount: $960,515

Date: October 2010

Purpose: to create a model that will enable policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and foundations to better assess the likely success of any strategy designed to improve the life prospects of children and youth

Amount: $1,000,000

Date: August 2010

Purpose: to conduct high-quality policy research focused on sustainable economic development in Africa, while amplifying the voice of African researchers in policymaking in the United States and Africa

Amount: $6,270,792

Date: July 2010

Purpose: to develop criteria for certifying teacher evaluation systems

Amount: $337,000

Date: May 2009

Purpose: to enable availability and strengthen the quality of workforce and labor market statistics, and connect them to longitudinal higher education data at the federal level

Amount: $350,000

Date: May 2009

Purpose: to improve media coverage of secondary and post-secondary education

Amount: $501,210

Date: November 2008

Purpose: to support the planning phase of the development of a life-cycle model for estimating the impact of various policy interventions aimed at increasing social mobility

Amount: $128,984

Date: July 2008

Purpose: to bring the best African-led research and perspectives on development challenges to US policy makers by supporting the African Growth Initiative and to explore the potential of partnerships with African think tanks

Amount: $5,774,324

Date: December 2007

Purpose: to support ongoing publication of key recovery indicators as a resource and accountability tool for continued policy attention to long-term recovery in the Gulf Coast region

Amount: $400,000

Date: November 2007

Purpose: to support policy research on new federal and state policies in response to demographic and economic changes

Amount: $1,500,000

Date: October 2001

Purpose: to support a National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education through The Brookings Institution

Amount: $1,000,000

American Federation of Teachers

Date: May 2013

Purpose: to enable the American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation to support the Minnesota Guild of Public Charter Schools to become a self-sustaining organization

Amount: $150,000

Date: June 2012

Purpose: to support the AFT Innovation Fund and work on teacher development and Common Core State Standards

Amount: $4,400,000

Date: May 2012

Purpose: to provide AFT conference support

Amount: $75,000

Date: April 2011

Purpose: to assist teachers in understanding and implementing the Common Core State Standards

Amount: $1,000,000

Date: February 2011

Purpose: to provide conference support for the conference on teacher development and evaluation systems

Amount: $230,000

Date: July 2010

Purpose: to support the American Federation of Teachers Innovation Fund and the union's teacher development and evaluation programs

Amount: $4,021,725

Date: June 2010

Purpose: for conference support

Amount: $217,200

Date: June 2009

Purpose: to support the work of a teacher evaluation task force

Amount: $250,000

Date: January 2009

Purpose: to support teacher-and union-led reform efforts to improve public education and raise student achievement

Amount: $1,000,000

National Education Association

Date: July 2013

Purpose: to support the capacity of state NEA affiliates to advance teaching and learning issues and student success in collaboration with local affiliates

Amount: $2,426,500

Date: July 2013

Purpose: to support a cohort of National Education Association Master Teachers in the development of Common Core-aligned lessons in K-5 mathematics and K-12 English Language Arts

Amount: $3,882,600

Date: October 2012

Purpose: to build and enhance teacher voice in the development and implementation of the teacher and leader Professional Growth and Effectiveness System and the Common Core State Standards

Amount: $99,997

Date: April 2012

Purpose: to support the NEA Foundation Institute for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

Amount: $550,000

Date: March 2010

Purpose: to support an in-person meeting of the Planning Committee of the NEA Foundation Institute for Local Innovation in Teaching and Learning

Amount: $38,420

Date: October 2009

Purpose: to support training for local NEA affiliates to take on a leadership role in improving teaching practice and student achievement in their districts

Amount: $358,915

National Association of Secondary School Principals

Date: October 2005

Purpose: to develop a cadre of certified principal trainers in each of the NGA Honor States

Amount: $219,980

Date: March 2005

Purpose: to produce and disseminate a Leader's Guide to Adolescent Literacy that will outline what middle and high school principals can do to implement a schoolwide literacy program

Amount: $125,000

Date: June 2004

Purpose: to support the implementation of strategies and tools recommended in "Breaking Ranks II" report for 17 state associations of principals

Amount: $503,320

Date: June 2003

Purpose: to support dissemination of 'Breaking Ranks Leadership: Mapping the Change of an American Institution', the second edition of 'Breaking Ranks: Changing an American Institution.'

Amount: $182,000

Date: March 2003

Purpose: to identify and showcase exemplary high schools

Amount: $1,072,738

American Association of School Administrators

Date: June 2011

Purpose: to help publicize the public release of college-going data for all high-schools and to support educators to understand the data, prepare for its release, and effectively use the information

Amount: $331,512

Date: April 2011

Purpose: to create a website that provides analysis from the user's perspective of the most prevalent student information and learning management systems

Amount: $417,697

Council of Great City Schools

Date: March 2013

Purpose: to develop benchmarking of instructional-related expenditures to enable strategic resource alignment in K-12

Amount: $614,954

Date: June 2011

Purpose: to promote and coordinate successful implementation of the new common core standards in major urban public school systems nationwide

Amount: $4,910,988

Date: March 2010

Purpose: to support the development of a cross-sector proposal to pilot test the new common core standards in a set of selected cities

Amount: $100,000

Date: October 2008

Purpose: to improve student outcomes by understanding the gaps between standards and instruction in urban contexts and by leveraging student data to improve instruction and support

Amount: $3,735,866

National Urban League

Date: November 2012

Purpose: to contribute important stakeholder information to guide and shape the larger Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery project

Amount: $98,471

Date: June 2011

Purpose: to continue support for the NUL Equity and Excellence Project and build the capacity of the NUL Policy Institute to advocate more effectively at the federal and state levels

Amount: $2,900,000

Date: October 2009

Purpose: to more effectively leverage its affiliate network, introduce common (national) policy goals and objectives, and involve local and state NUL leaders in the national federal advocacy work of the Campaign for High School Equity

Amount: $800,000

Date: September 2007

Purpose: to participate in the Campaign for High School Equity Coalition and raise public awareness to issues and solutions to improve graduation and college readiness of students of color

Amount: $358,267

Black Alliance for Educational Options

Date: November 2012

Purpose: to contract a consultant to develop a strategic plan that enhances BAEO’s ability to advocate for college ready education and college completion

Amount: $250,000

Date: November 2011

Purpose: to support the launch of High Performing Black-led Charter Schools Initiative as a pilot initiative for schools in New Orleans, Philadelphia, and the District of Columbia

Amount: $99,360

Date: March 2003

Purpose: to support the creation of new small high schools

Amount: $4,000,000

Center for Education Reform

Date: October 2011

Purpose: to support Phase II of the Media Bullpen and to advance charter policy advocacy work in five states

Amount: $600,000

Date: June 2010

Purpose: to support development of a new awareness tool, "The Bullpen", that will offer and analyze real time education news

Amount: $275,000

Education Trust

Date: July 2013

Purpose: to focus on redesigning grants and work study loans for Phase II of the Reimagining Aid Design & Delivery (RADD) project

Amount: $350,431

Date: November 2012

Purpose: to support the Access to Success program in helping to provide data, evidence, best practices, and training to campuses in support of continuous improvement in providing equal opportunity for access and success to underrepresented minorities

Amount: $800,000

Date: November 2012

Purpose: to inform state and local policies on teacher evaluation as a significant and valuable tool

Amount: $2,101,177

Date: September 2012

Purpose: to begin pressure testing possible education finance reform solutions—both substantively and politically

Amount: $304,971

Date: September 2010

Purpose: to support a group of major university and community college system heads to build better data systems, financial aid policies, and student support services

Amount: $1,060,000

Date: January 2010

Purpose: for general operating support

Amount: $1,000,000

Date: September 2009

Purpose: to develop a set of open-source literacy courses that align to the Common Core State Standards

Amount: $2,039,526

Date: November 2007

Purpose: for general operating support

Amount: $10,000,000

Date: November 2007

Purpose: to increase access and success, particularly for low-income and minority students and bring systems together to work on critical actions to accelerate improvement

Amount: $1,507,077

Date: October 2007

Purpose: to ensure that all students in California graduate college and work ready, and that the state invests and targets the necessary resources to get them there

Amount: $7,750,000

Date: August 2006

Purpose: to support technical assistance to Los Angeles Unified School District for development of a high school progress report

Amount: $111,376

Date: June 2006

Purpose: to develop regional American Diploma Projects in Sacramento /Silicon Valley/San Bernardino region

Amount: $94,500

Date: March 2006

Purpose: for general operating support

Amount: $2,200,000

Date: November 2005

Purpose: to support the National Association of (University) System Heads to engage higher education leaders in high school redesign

Amount: $369,150

Date: September 2004

Purpose: for general operating support

Amount: $1,200,000

Date: July 2003

Purpose: to support research and dissemination of findings about effective practices in high-performing high schools and institutions of higher education, particularly those serving high concentrations of low-income and minority young people

Amount: $2,000,000

Date: May 2002

Purpose: to provide matching contribution for general operating support

Amount: $100,000

Date: December 2003

Purpose: for the production of the "California High School Status Report"

Amount: $201,820

Date: August 2010

Purpose: for general operating support

Amount: $8,300,000

Center on American Progress

Date: July 2008

Purpose: to expand work on improving the quality and effectiveness of human capital in the public education sector

Amount: $1,198,248

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