Services to
grantees include on - site mentoring and / or training for classroom staff in the areas of developmentally appropriate practices, learning environments, planning, and teacher / child interactions.
Over the last four years, the projects I have curated with CC
grantees include: Brent Green's Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, presented by artwithoutwalls at LOT Gallery in 2011; Shih Chieh Huang's Luminosity, an artwithoutwalls installation at LOT and at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts during IdeaFestival 2011; Chris Doyle's The Underglow, a site - specific public projection in Stockholm (2011), and two related works in downtown Louisville, Scenes from the Underglow and Rondo (2011).
The new
grantees include: A Fair Shake for Youth, Inc., in New York; American Scent Dog Association, in Little Rock, Ark.; Amercia's VetDogs — The Veteran's K - 9 Corps, Inc., in Smithtown, N.Y.; Caregiver Volunteers of Central Jersey, in Whiting, N.J.; Detroit Public Safety Foundation (DPSF), in Detroit; Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation, Inc., in Bloomfield, Conn.; HOPE Animal - Assisted Crisis Response (AACR) in Eugene, Ore.; MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (MUMH), in Baltimore; New Horizons Service Dogs, Inc. in Orange City, Fla.; Paws for People — Pet - Assisted Visitation Services, Inc., in Newark, Del; and Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation, in Dallas.
This year's
grantees include two Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs)-- Coppin State University and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University — that will serve rural and urban communities in Maryland and rural communities North Carolina.
Other
grantees include Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Grantees include community - based organizations, K - 12 schools and districts, community and technical colleges, four - year colleges and universities, educational nonprofits, and public agencies.
And the «venture philanthropy» principles are not the sole purview of the new guard — any funder can employ strategic investment with a guiding vision, clear expectations for
grantees including measurable outcomes and accountability, and a clear articulation of the desired scale and nature of impact.
An outside panel selected the 2014
grantees including Deana Haggag, director of The Contemporary, a nomadic and non-collecting museum in Baltimore, MD; Carrie Hott, interdisciplinary artist and former Alternative Exposure grantee; and Frank Smigiel, Associate Curator of Public Programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Not exact matches
On his blog recently, he recommended a number of reads,
including Evicted, by Gates Foundation
grantee, Princeton sociologist, and MacArthur Foundation «Genius» grant winner Matthew Desmond.
The day - long event brought together 150 invited guests,
including Knight News Challenge
grantees along with leading journalists, technologists, campaign organizers, academics and thought leaders for a series of curated panel discussions.
The tax code allows private foundations to
include as «qualified distributions» certain expenses associated with grantmaking and other payments made for charitable purposes (e.g., conferences, technical assistance for
grantees and other expenses).
Family Support highlights
include: Each of the 12
grantees awarded in 2014 are implementing unique strategies to engage families, such as training parents to become leadership trainers for other parents and expanding a technology that allows children to send texts and photos to their parents while in preschool.
Their
grantees have
included same - sex and single parents as well as different - sex parents,
including transgender parents.
• Exploration of
including incentives for Housing and Community Renewal
grantees who propose to carry out lead hazard control under future Unified Funding Rounds;
And the chairman and top Democrat of the House science committee have asked the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) to examine the ability of five major federal research agencies,
including NSF, to ensure that their
grantees comply with Title IX.
Although the State Department provides funds for the Fulbright Program, the program itself,
including the selection of
grantees, is done by binational organizations in each country; for India, it's the United States Educational Foundation in India (USEFI).
A letter that the European Research Council (ERC) sent to its
grantees last July didn't mention PEN by name, but warned about «certain publishing houses and online publications» whose tactics, «
including vague references — usually by telephone — to any sort of official recognition by the ERC, the EC or the EU, are to be considered an attempt to fraud.»
These figures
include about $ 500 million going to more than 300 ERC
grantees.
At the summit, the
grantees met with Richmond for an informal talk about their own future plans and challenges, discussing a range of topics
including the need to apply to fellowships and attend a wider variety of professional meetings.
Draft conflict of interest regulations issued last summer
include «paid authorship» in a list of activities that NIH
grantees must report to their institutions for review.
In most of the countries receiving Fulbright Scholars (
including France), a bilateral commission of American and host - country academics selects
grantees from among the applicants.
The event will feature numerous Helmsley partners,
including Professor Dan Peer from
grantee Tel Aviv University's Department of Cell Research and Immunology.
Consequences of such a finding could
include suspension or termination of awards or requiring the
grantee to remove personnel.
We did discuss Guidestar, a free online database containing information on non-profit organizations,
including foundation 990 forms that often contain the names of
grantees and grant amounts.
Current
grantees of RA MA Foundation
include:
Importantly, the proposal like SBIR would
include small businesses as eligible
grantees, addressing a shortcoming of the original i3 program that arguably limited the types of innovations proposed.
These new elements
include the number of children experiencing homelessness and the number of children in foster care to enable
grantees to prioritize the most at - risk children in their communities.
Under the proposed standards,
grantees would still have the ability to propose a «locally - designed program option variation,» which could
include partial day programs if that would best meet the needs of their community, but these options would require approval by an HHS official at least once every two years.
Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) and 2Revolutions recently published Reimagining Space, Time and Staffing, a toolkit which
included tips, strategies, and resources from NGLC
grantees for rethinking these critical elements of school.
With the Gates money, the Hunt Institute coordinated more than a dozen organizations — many of them also Gates
grantees —
including the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, National Council of La Raza, the Council of Chief State School Officers, National Governors Association, Achieve and the two national teachers unions.
How to Get Your Program Up and Running in 30 Days — This module provides tips and information for new
grantees to help them get their program up and running in the required 30 day time frame,
including a timeline of activities, with whom to collaborate and what type of data to collect.
·
Includes advising and managing National Science Foundation SBIR Phase 1
grantees such as SimInsights and KillerSnails.
Jonathan oversees Alliance's portfolio of blended learning schools, which
includes blended learning pilots, full - school conversions, and a Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC)
grantee school.
Prior to joining the foundation, she worked as an independent consultant to a number of education funders and ngos on projects
including strategic planning and advising, monitoring and evaluation, grant - making support and due diligence, advocacy and policy change work, and
grantee network facilitation and support.
RESOURCE GUIDE: Defending Immigrant Youth Post DACA Resource Guide covering information on the key policy issues impacting the lives of DACA
grantees,
including 1.
An annual retreat and conference brings together the myriad partners in the network, which
include other local colleges and organizations as well as dozens of PDS sites and Buffalo State, and provides
grantees an opportunity to share their research.
This
includes providing MSAP
grantees and schools with technical support in evidence - based education practices relevant to program implementation, management, and sustainability as well as performance measurement and evaluation.
These
include meeting with other RPP funders, convening RPP leaders and Spencer
grantees, analyzing Spencer RPP applications and awards, and commissioning papers to help inform the broader field.
The mixed - methods study
included feedback forms from Big Read events, surveys of participants and
grantees, reviews of
grantee reports required by the project, and tabular data on attendance, circulation, and partnerships from Arts Midwest.
Some of this year's other
grantees that joined YouthTruth in getting celebrated for their work in producing meaningful feedback loops and increasing foundation openness
include: Habitat for Humanity International, Global Living, Creative Commons, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and Urban Institute With Feeding America.
Individual
grantee case studies are
included for Iredell - Statesville Schools (NC), Miami - Dade Public Schools (FL), New Haven Public Schools (CA) and Metropolitan School District of Warren Township (IN).
As of 2008, TEA required a full - time project director for each local ACE
grantee and full - time site coordinators for each center
included in the grant.
The meeting
includes visits to some of NGLC Breakthrough Schools: Chicago
grantee schools.
In addition to the grants announced today, NLGC has already provided nearly $ 40 million in support to 75
grantees in all,
including 39 new breakthrough secondary schools and other educational entrepreneurs and tool - builders focused on college readiness.
The assessment system
includes a self - assessment tool that is completed by each
grantee in the fall, a desk review of the
grantee's approved grant application along with annual program reports submitted to TEA, and site visits.
These
grantees have developed partnerships with community - based programs,
including local Parks and Wildlife, Girlstart, and local entrepreneur groups, to give students more hands - on opportunities to increase their knowledge of and interest in STEM careers.
In addition to ESEA waiver requirements that districts incorporate evaluation data into personnel decisions (though compensation isn't specified), the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF), a federal grant program that has allocated over $ 2 billion since its inception, began supporting state and district efforts to implement performance - based compensation in 2006.79
Grantees from across the country have
included Miami - Dade County Public Schools, Mississippi, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Seattle Public Schools, and Washington, D.C. Public Schools (see Case Study: Lessons From Washington, D.C.'s IMPACT System).
Significant provisions of AB 2514 (Thurmond)
include: Establishes the 3 year Pathways to Success Grant Program proposing to provide up to $ 300,000 per
grantee for a minimum of 10 grants.
This brief provides a snapshot of the rules for
including student achievement data in evaluations of teacher performance in selected Race to the Top
grantee States.
Her recent projects
include a national study of programs designed to re-engage out - of - school youth, technical assistance to federal High School Graduation Initiative
grantees, and a study of College Readiness Indicator Systems in two leading districts.