2020
Grants Awarded
| Category | Organization and Summary | Amount | Location | Description | |
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| Education | Bank Street College of Education | $50,000 | New York, NY |
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. |
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| Education | Learning Policy Institute | $70,000 | Palo Alto, CA |
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. |
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| Stone Leaders for Change | Youth United for Change, Rapheal Randall, Executive Director | $5,000 | Philadelphia, PA |
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. |
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| Stone Leaders for Change | Philadelphia Student Union, Fred Pinguel, Executive Director | $5,000 | Philadelphia, PA |
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. |