2020
Grants Awarded

This grant is restricted to the Center X Teacher Education Program (TEP) at UCLA for the Stone Scholars Scholarship Program.

This grant will support a leadership coach to co-lead an initiative to better monitor and assess the developmental trajectories of novice school leaders.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

The general operating grant will be used to engage and support a coalition of Massachusetts equity advocates from civil rights, disability rights, parent, educator, and education reform communities to demand and secure policies that will increase opportunity and achievement for low-income students and students of color.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support the Center for Collaborative Education’s statewide advocacy campaign to leverage state policy changes to transform Massachusetts’ current education assessment system.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support Bank Street’s Cohort 1 teacher residents through graduation from its Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages Teacher Residency Program, launch the first-year residency for Cohort 2 teacher residents, and continue its work to secure government support to sustain the model.

This grant will support the growth of Learning Policy Institute’s Educator Preparation Laboratory initiative and to more deeply integrate social and emotional learning into the initiative.

This grant will provide funding for two purposes: a) to infuse socioemotional learning (SEL) into the Practitioner Inquiry for School Leaders course, and b) to monitor and assess the extent to which school leaders who received SEL support through leadership coaching and re-aligned courses are enacting SEL in their leadership.

This grant will support the Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) to expand and deepen instruction to students in two areas: trauma-responsive practices and race and equity. This work will include program development and expert-led instruction.

This grant provides general operating support for San Francisco Teacher Residency.

This grant will support the integration of social-emotional learning within school and classroom practice in Boston Public Schools. Working closely with selected school leaders, Rennie will build their understanding of key concepts; map the landscape of current programs and practices; and develop a plan for advancing transformative SEL within their schools.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

LEAD Hubs identified improving equity competencies for district and building leaders as a key driver for school improvement. This project will develop and embed ELL micro-credentials for school board members, district administrators, and building principals as a strategy to create more equitable and supportive environments for English Language Learners.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports the Stone Foundation Fellowships in Early Childhood Development Leadership.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

The Ounce will: (1) Capitalize on opportunities to advance the early childhood (EC) system in Illinois; (2) Advance the EC workforce, and (3) Lift learnings for Illinois to inform and benefit from national conversations.

This grant supports New America’s Early & Elementary Education Policy Program to continue to inject PreK-3rd-grade policy ideas into the national education conversation and produce new policy insights to propel PreK-3rd reforms in states, school districts, communities, and schools.

NAEYC will engage higher education leadership to become champions for investing in excellent, accessible, affordable, and aligned associate and baccalaureate degree programs that prepare an effective, diverse, well-prepared, and well-compensated ECE profession.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant for T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood National Center.

This is a general operating support grant.

Advocate Children’s Hospital Healthy Steps Program, in conjunction with Advocate Medical Group, will continue to engage and support physician practices serving socially vulnerable communities to promote effective screening and management for children’s mental health issues and unmet social needs.

This grant will support the expansion of the PA Early Childhood Education Registered Apprenticeship program. This hub will have a statewide impact, providing documents and resources for higher education institutions and partners to begin, grow, and sustain an ECE apprenticeship program in their community.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant for the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support Jumpstart’s workforce development program in San Francisco and national workforce development. The Jumpstart/EDvance Practicum connects future teachers with high-quality coaching, mentorship, and guided hands-on experience, resulting in better outcomes for children and a sustainable, well-prepared pipeline of early educators.

Addressing the increased need for racial equity in health for birthing families, and building on the success of the first year launch of its Birth Equity Action Network, a community-involved policy and advocacy project promoting birth equity, HealthConnect One will continue community-led advocacy and collective action.

A grant will support Erikson Institute’s Early Teaching and Learning Academy and Policy and Leadership Department, which, through professional development opportunities and key policy initiatives, help young children gain equitable access to high-quality care and early educational experiences that set the foundation for optimal development, lifelong health, learning, and success.

Council for a Strong America (CSA) will build policymakers’ and the public’s support for increased investments in high-quality early childhood education and care, coupled with investments in a strong early childhood workforce, by elevating the voices of members from law enforcement and business communities in Illinois, California, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania.

This is a general operating support grant.

The BPS Department of Early Childhood will partner with the University of Massachusetts, Boston, to create an online, credit-bearing course for directors of preschool programs to support them as UPK programs as instructional leaders. There will be a parallel course for leaders to develop their technological skills to support instruction.

This grant would provide scholarships to AmeriCorps Teaching Fellows participating in teacher development and credentialing programs in 2020-2021.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support the Leadership Development Continuum, a series of after-school and summer programs, internships, media production, and paid employment that enables young people to advocate for systemic change.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports Mikva Challenge’s Citywide Youth Council Program that promotes youth voice and youth leadership by providing young people with the knowledge, skills, agency, and access to have a meaningful impact on public policy decisions that significantly impact Chicago youth.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports Juvenile Law Center’s Youth Engagement projects that create opportunities for youth with experience in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to use their personal stories and experiences as a platform for social change in their communities.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports the Participatory Budgeting Youth Fellowship, a partnership with the New York City Council that prepares high school students to increase youth involvement in NYC’s budget decisions.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports the Youth Justice Board.

This grant supports the Youth Action Board of the Chicago Continuum of Care.

This grant will support the Calafia Fellowship Program, which will make possible 1) the production of Calafia, a statewide youth policy journal; 2) close collaboration with youth advocates and data to set the Calafia agenda; and 3) pairing Calafia Fellows with professional journalists for mentorship.

This is a general operating support grant

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will advance local member-led campaigns for Dignity in Schools Campaign Solutions Not Suspensions, engage youth in leadership development, and support collective national action

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support efforts to provide training and technical assistance to youth-led/youth-serving organizations in Philadelphia, expanding their capacity to empower students as change agents and deepening their understanding of the legal solutions available to address educational barriers facing students.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant provides support for Chicago Freedom School’s Youth Leadership Training Cohort, which develops young leaders into trauma-informed healing justice trainers for teachers, cultural workers, and adult youth workers.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support Bank Street’s Cohort 1 teacher residents through graduation from its Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages Teacher Residency Program, launch the first-year residency for Cohort 2 teacher residents, and continue its work to secure government support to sustain the model.

Youth United for Change’s (YUC) model of community organizing brings diverse groups of youth together to target common concerns and act collectively on their own behalf, both to impact institutions and policy and to develop themselves as young leaders. As a Stone Leader for Change, Executive Director Rapheal Randall deepened his understanding of participatory budgeting as a means to expanding the democratic participation of Black and brown working-class communities.

The Philadelphia Student Union (PSU) builds the power of young people and provides youth with tools that will allow them to organize and build their own power in order to make a positive change in their schools and communities. As a Stone Leader for Change, Executive Director Fred Pinguel has had the opportunity to strengthen the organization’s communications and financial literacy in order to make it more efficient with planning, performance, operations, and to productively communicate PSU’s story.