Our Promise and Plan of Action for the Year Ahead
This is a tough time to be in education. For teachers and school leaders navigating a third wave of the pandemic and fighting to deliver an excellent education, there are no “time outs.” Education philanthropy has a shared responsibility to support educators who are responding to unrelenting demands every day.
Investors Often Ignore Entrepreneurs of Color. NewSchools Venture Fund Wants to Change That
This blog was originally published by EdWeek MarketBrief on May 28, 2021 and can be found on their website
A Major K-12 Funder Takes the Participatory Grantmaking Plunge
Participatory grantmaking: It isn’t a term that rolls off the tongue, and yet many people in the philanthropy world are talking about it these days. It describes the process of including community members in grantmaking decisions. As GrantCraft put it in a 2018 report, “participatory grantmaking cedes decision-making power about funding—including the strategy and criteria behind those decisions—to the very communities that funders aim to serve.”