2023
Grants Awarded

This is a field building grant to support the Latino Policy Forum (Forum) in the creation of resources and materials to provide existing community-based early educators with introductory competencies in how to serve young English Learners (ELs).

This is a field building grant to support the dissemination of findings from the evaluation of the Black Educator Initiative in an effort to promote promising policies and practices for diversifying the national teacher workforce.

Over the next six months, New America will be working to identify best practices for children with learning differences and Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and will recommend aligned policies and practices that can be embedded in Pre-K-3rd grade, with an emphasis on kindergarten. These recommendations will then be used to inform the U.S. Department of Education’s Pre-K-3rd strategy, policies, and resource allocations to better support young DLLs and children with disabilities.

This grant will support convenings that will support education leaders who want to explore new ways of supporting students post-COVID-19.

This grant will document the development and impact of the 9:30 Call for early education Massachusetts.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant supports the Youth Leadership Development Continuum, a series of after school and summer programs, credit bearing internships, media production, and paid employment that enables young people to advocate for policy and systems change. Its media work and collaborations with other youth serving and social justice organizations is also helping to strengthen the ecosystem of youth activism in Philadelphia.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant provides general operating support for the Urban Youth Collaborative.

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.

The Youth Action Institute (formerly the Youth Justice Board) requests continuing support to examine the experience of safety and dignity for queer and trans youth of color in New York City, and to continue a previous cohort’s work on social media surveillance.

This is a general operating support grant.

Building off the past year’s program development and the Democracy School 2100 [DS2100] pilot [to occur between April – June 2023], Coro will further institutionalize and embed DS2100 in its leadership development portfolio to engage a new generation of youth leaders and organizers who have the political and civic know-how to foster lasting systemic change.

This is a general operating support grant.

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

The Stone Scholarships will support pre-service teachers seeking to influence educational reform within multiple school system levels. Scholarships will be awarded to qualified teacher candidates committed to working in urban schools to provide tuition support, mentoring, professional development, and travel funds.

This grant will support leadership coaching and EdD program improvement to assess, monitor, and continue to deepen the extent to which UIC school leaders are strengthening their ability to diagnose and develop the adult SEL capacity in their schools which will, in turn, strengthen the SEL support for students. In addition, scale up our sharing of strategies and learnings with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) in a variety of ways that includes but is not limited to: engagement with the Office of Principal Quality, Office of Network Support (ONS), Office of Early Childhood, and most importantly the Executive Director of Social and Emotional Learning in the Office of College and Career Success (OCCS).

The general operating grant will be used to engage and support the work of the Massachusetts Education Equity Partnership (MEEP) – a coalition of civil rights, social justice, and education advocates from across the Commonwealth working together to promote educational equity for historically underserved students in our state’s schools.

This is a general operating support grant.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support LPI to expand and strengthen its equity-focused, high-quality educator preparation through the Educator Preparatory Laboratory (EdPrepLab) and to extend on-the-ground community engagement on the implementation of community schools and relationship-centered schools in California through the Shared Learning Initiative.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support the Center for Collaborative Education’s statewide effort to bring communities and schools together as partners to build voice and demand state policy changes to transform Massachusetts’ current education system to move away from a one size fits all and inequitable way of supporting schools and communities.

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will launch Cohort 4 of the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) residency program, continue to secure sustainable funding for the model, and begin a process of documentation and dissemination of TESOL’s curriculum and design to support similar residencies.

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

This is a general operating support grant.

This grant will support Start Early’s administrative, legislative, and grassroots efforts to advance the early childhood system in Illinois, with a focus on infants and toddlers, children and families in priority populations, and the workforce.

This is a general operating support grant.

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

This is a general operating support grant.

This general operating grant will support organizational initiatives advancing state public policies promoting excellence in Illinois early childhood education and child care.

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 child mental health issues and unmet social needs.