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Philanthropy In/Sight: Education

Our free, interactive mapping tool is designed to help grantmakers maximize their investments in education!

FEATURED MAP: A recently announced announced a $5 million multi-year grant to an initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to improve early childhood education in some of Grand Rapids' poorest neighborhoods. Create a grant map to find out:

How much foundation funding has been awarded to early childhood education programs?
  • Plot grantmaker and recipient location pins and select "All" under Grant Indicator
  • Under Subjects, find "Education, early childhood education" under "Elementary/Secondary Education"
  • Go to Demographic Indicator, select "Poverty Rate", and click "Refresh Map"
  • Mouse over to see how your state compares to others in the amount of funding for early childhood education and analyze possible funding gaps
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Featured Reports

Collecting and Using Information to Strengthen Citywide Out-of-School Time Systems
National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education & Families

August 2011

Looks at the kinds of data U.S. cities are gathering and analyzing in their efforts to build citywide systems that make high-quality after-school programs more available to children, how they collect it, and how they put it to use.

It's Not a Matter of Time: Highlights From the 2011 Competency-Based Learning Summit
International Association for K-12 Online Learning

July 2011

Outlines discussions about the potential and challenges of competency-based learning in transforming the current time-based system, including issues of accountability, equity, personalization, and aligning policy and practice. Includes case summaries.

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